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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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Tim Gunn
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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Timothy MacKenzie Gunn
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