Quote

There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it’s a distraction.

Tim Gunn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tim Gunn
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
Consultant
Costume Designer
Creative Director
Fashion Designer
Photographer
Reality Television Participant
University Teacher
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
Head
Talk
Negativity
Cannot
Distraction
Change
Plants
Ever
Student
Thing
Designer
Things
Plant
Never
Students

More quotes by Tim Gunn

Image
The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.
Tim Gunn
Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.
Tim Gunn
Image
A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.
Tim Gunn
Image
There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.
Tim Gunn
Image
Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.
Tim Gunn
Image
I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.
Tim Gunn
Image
It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.
Tim Gunn
Image
I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.
Tim Gunn
Image
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
Tim Gunn
Image
Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.
Tim Gunn
Image
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.
Tim Gunn
Image
I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky.
Tim Gunn
Image
When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.
Tim Gunn
Image
I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.
Tim Gunn
Image
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
Tim Gunn
Image
Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.
Tim Gunn
Image
If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.
Tim Gunn
Image
I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.
Tim Gunn
Image
If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.
Tim Gunn
Image
If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.
Tim Gunn