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At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

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Tim Gunn
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.
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I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
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I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
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I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.
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