287 Quotes by Tim Gunn

The bulky caveman boot certainly has a modern heir: Uggs. I feel they are aptly named and don’t belong in this millennium, but I realize I’m in the minority on that.

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!”

I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There’s no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.

I’m really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn’t.

To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn’t want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle.

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.

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 than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?

I will always be there in the wings saying, ‘You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you’ve got.