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We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

Tim Gunn

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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
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.
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It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.
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Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to the designers and giving them helpful feedback about what they're doing.
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We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.
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I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
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The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.
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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.
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I've been in situations where I've said to young people: You're so personable, you're so articulate, you're clearly so bright, you're so good-looking - feel better about yourself! But if at the core if you don't, all those words mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.
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I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.
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If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
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My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
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Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.
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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.
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It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.
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I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.
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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.
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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.
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I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.
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Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.
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