Tim Gunn
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.Collection: Architecture
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Design
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.Collection: Teacher
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.
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.
I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!
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.
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.
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.
I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.
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.
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.
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.
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.
And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.
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.
I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.
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.
I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.
I love helping people.
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.
But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?
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.
I haven't had a date in 26 years.
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.
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.
People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.
In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.
Men's wear is all about tailoring.
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.
I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.Collection: World
You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Men
When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.Collection: Mean
Exude unconditional confidence.Collection: Unconditional
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.Collection: Regret
Trying and acheiving are two different things.Collection: Two
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.Collection: Funny
The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.Collection: Clothes
At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.Collection: Clothes
We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Mean