Tim Gunn Quotes

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  You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

  Tim Gunn

  World, Rich, Curious

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.

  Tim Gunn

  Men, Doors, Complaining

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  People, Support, Collaboration

  "Tim Gunn’s Advice for Making It Work". Interview with Tara Parker-Pope, well.blogs.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

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  Funny, Fashion, Clothes

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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• Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

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  Perspective, Bombers, Trends

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

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  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

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  Clothes, World, Messages

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

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  Vocabulary, Learning New, Delightful

  Tim Gunn, Kate Moloney (2011). “Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style”, p.182, Abrams

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• I've had my own moments in front of designers when I've actually said, 'You know, there's a market here for expanding your work, and here it is. And frankly, there are two markets: The women who are larger than the 12, and then there are women who are petite. And most designers that I talk to have absolutely no interest in addressing either of those populations, which I find repugnant.

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  Two, Population, Moments

  "Tim Gunn: Fashion Seems To End At A Size 12" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

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  Hate, Book, Comfort

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• I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

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  Fashion, Teacher, School

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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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  Frustration, Levels, Might

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.

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  Running, Rain, People

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, channel your inner winner.

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  Remember, Winner

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• I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to say that because you were a man and now you're a woman, you can't be in a women's fashion show. But I feel it's a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender - if you go, say, male to female - you're not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man.

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  Fashion, Men, Hands

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• 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.

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  Noses, Cases, High Road

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.

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  People, Giving, Important

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond clothes, it's grooming. It's accessories. It's the whole head to toe look.

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  Believe, Clothes, World

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• I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

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  Art, Believe, People

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

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  Believe, Sometimes, Reason

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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

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  Fashion, Looks, Easy

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• I have a very Socratic approach - I pummel the designers with questions, so when I get them to step back from the work and look at it with me, they'll eventually see what I see, coming to it fresh and unencumbered. That's always very gratifying because they feel a responsibility and an ownership of a solution.

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  Responsibility, Steps, Looks

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

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  Ambition, Needs, Designer

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

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  Integrity, Wings, People

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

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  Regret, Stress, Advice

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