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Tim Gunn

Tim Gunn

American Designer

Born: Jul 29, 1953

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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. Tim Gunn

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. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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And Brooke Elliott is a great actress. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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

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

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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. Tim Gunn

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With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad. Tim Gunn

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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. Tim Gunn

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I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you. Tim Gunn

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