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Tim Gunn
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
Consultant
Costume Designer
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Fashion Designer
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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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.
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I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.
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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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Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?
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As I've matured, I've developed more confidence in pattern mixing and in having a slimmer fit and in taking some risks, and I enjoy it!
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I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
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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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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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Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.
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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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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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As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.
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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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If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.
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I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.
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It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.
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I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.
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Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.
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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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I'm so lucky. I've met a lot of famous people.
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