Tim Gunn Quotes

We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

I've worn a suit and tie for most of my life. And I believe (for me), it makes me more confident navigating the world.

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

Models come in all sizes and shapes.

Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

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 think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

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.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Trying and acheiving are two different things.

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 rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.