Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn
Timothy MacKenzie "Tim" Gunnis an American fashion consultant, television personality, actor, and voice actor. He served on the faculty of Parsons The New School for Design from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design at the school from August 2000 to March 2007, after which he joined Liz Claiborne as its chief creative officer. He is well known as on-air mentor to designers on the reality television program Project Runway. Gunn's popularity on Project Runway led to 2...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth29 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I believe that it's very important to get to know people with whom you can have a substantive dialogue about design and its development. In addition, read everything about fashion that you can get your hands on. A palpable point of view is what makes a designer, so you need to be confident about yours.
Trying and acheiving are two different things.
I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.
I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning then I can list!
Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.
I haven't had a date in 26 years.
And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
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.
I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.
I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.
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.
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.