Top 30 Tim Gunn Quotes

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

I haven’t had a date in 26 years.

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

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.

I’m one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.

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 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.

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

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

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.

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.

Men’s wear is all about tailoring.

But if fashion were easy, wouldn’t everybody look great?

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.

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 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.

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.

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 have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.

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.

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’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.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that’s never my intention.

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs!

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

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.

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

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.