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'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.
I guess the most famous person I was so extremely exhilarated by being with - and actually sat next to her at a luncheon at the White House - was Mrs. Obama.
I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health.
Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.
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.
I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.
I've never said I'm a fashion designer.
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.
I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.
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.
Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.