Tim Gunn Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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.

  Tim Gunn

  Design, Needs, Size

  "Tim Gunn's New Day Job" by Kate Schweitzer, www.marieclaire.com. December 16, 2011.

• 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.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Teaching, Discipline

  "In Which Tim Gunn Tells Men to Watch 'Project Runway'" by Kurt Soller, www.esquire.com. July 26, 2011.

• I believe that it's very important to get to know people with whom you can have a substantive dialogue about design and its development. In addition, read everything about fashion that you can get your hands on. A palpable point of view is what makes a designer, so you need to be confident about yours.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Believe, Views

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

• I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Teacher, School

• If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

  Tim Gunn

  Design, Able, Sewing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

• 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.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, School, Self Confidence

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

• 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.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Discipline, People

  Interview with Michael Chernin, www.brownpoliticalreview.org. May 7, 2014.

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

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Ipads, Design

  "In Which Tim Gunn Tells Men to Watch Project Runway" by Kurt Soller, www.esquire.com. July 26, 2011.

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