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“Make it work”
― Tim Gunn

“I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.”
― Tim Gunn

“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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I am a stickler for good manners, and I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. In the workplace, at the dinner table, and walking down the street--we are confronted with choices on how to treat people nearly every waking moment. Over time these choices define who we are and whether we have a lot of friends and allies or none.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

“If someone doesn't ask, you don't have a moral obligation to say every thought that pops in your head.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“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.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I can't imagine a more aesthetically offensive item of footwear than Crocs. That little strap! I shudder.

...I know Crocs are affordable. Well, so are Converse and lots of other brands that don't look like hooves.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“Until the sixteenth century, men—priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others—wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants?”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“You know people like this, right? People who are incapable of enjoying anything.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“The message sent by this policy is that if women are to be accepted into the exclusive ranks of men, then they have to look like men: buttoned up, stuffy, and no-nonsense. As if to show a little cleavage, to highlight a curvaceous figure, or to in any way appear feminine would discount, discredit, and disqualify them.

I strongly disagree with this idea. I feel that women should wear clothes that suit their bodies rather than forcing themselves into unflattering men's suits and that it is feminist to make a wide range of women's clothes acceptable business attire.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“This explosion of athletic wear and rompers is very ironic when you think about how much more sedentary we've become. As we've become less active and higher-tech, we're wearing more and more workout clothes.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.â€� —Epictetus”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style

“The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway â€� but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]”
― Tim Gunn

“In 1916, Infants' and Children's Wear Review insisted upon pink for boys and blue for girls. In 1939, Parents magazine claimed that pink was a good color for boys because it was a pale version of red, which was the color of Mars, the war god. Blue was good for girls because it was the color of Venus, and of the Virgin Mary. So, pink for girls is a relatively recent trend, and utterly random.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“This is one of the pitfalls of being nice: You end up overexerting yourself. That's why one of the most important things to learn after you master good behavior is how to say no gracefully. It's ultimately better for everyone, because you don't burn out and wind up in a mental institution, making you no good to anyone at all.”
― Tim Gunn

“One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!

“I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequently a show of sexism—as if something that's traditionally a concern of women isn't valid as a field of academic inquiry. When the Parsons fashion department was founded in 1906, it was called 'costume design,' because fashion was then a verb: to fashion. But the word 'fashion' has evolved to mean something much more profound, and those who resist it seem to me to be on the wrong side of history.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

“Until the twentieth century, the T-shirt's role was strictly to form a barrier between a man's body and the more valuable clothing he actually wanted the world to see.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible