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Tim Gunn [1953-0] American

Rank: 101
Designer, Consultant

Timothy MacKenzie "Tim" Gunn is an American fashion consultant, television personality, and 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.

Anger, Architecture, Design, Relationship, Teacher, Teen

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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.		101
Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.		102
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.		103
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.		104
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.	Anger	105
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.		106
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.		107
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.	Design	108
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.		109
I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.		110
I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.		111
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.		112
But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?		113
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.	Relationship	114
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.		115
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.		116
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.		117
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.	Architecture	118
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.		119
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.		120
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.		121
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!		122
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.		123
I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.		124
And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.		125
I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.		126
I haven't had a date in 26 years.		201
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.	Teacher	202
In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.		203
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.		204
I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.		205
I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.		206
On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.		207
I love helping people.		208
People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.		209
Men's wear is all about tailoring.		210
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.		211
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.	Teen	212

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