American - Designer | July 29, 1953 -
I haven't had a date in 26 years.
Tim Gunn
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I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.
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In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
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Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.
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Men's wear is all about tailoring.
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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.
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With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
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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.
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