Tim Gunn Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Tim Gunn Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Tim Gunn Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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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Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs!

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But 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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Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

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But if fashion were easy, wouldn’t everybody look great?

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I’ve never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don’t like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

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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 do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn’t attempt a jacket.

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I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

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In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

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Men’s wear is all about tailoring.

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Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don’t go to that level.

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I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

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I found early on in teaching, if you’re too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you’re just being mean. They’re not interested in what you have to say.

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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 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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I haven’t had a date in 26 years.

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People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

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Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

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I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

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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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And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.

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Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-’90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.

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I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I’m vulnerable too and each one of us is.

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But I will add, 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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But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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I’m one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.

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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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On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

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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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I love helping people.

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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 have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.

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