Tim Gunn Quotes

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• Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.
• Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!
• If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.
• I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
• Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs!
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger…
• If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your…
• Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you…
• Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.
• The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and…
• 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.
• 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…

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