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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
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Washington
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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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.
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I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
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If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
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Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.
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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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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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Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.
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If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.
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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.
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May I respond by merely saying, I hate crocs. May they please go away.
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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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And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.
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People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I say Hogwash! The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.
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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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It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.
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Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.
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With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
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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 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.
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I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.
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