If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean.… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Frankly, I think that fur on a man is difficult to pull off. If it's the warmth you're after, then I'd go… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I've been in situations where I've said to young people: "You're so personable, you're so articulate, you're clearly so bright, you're so… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs! — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
