The Magnificent Tim Gun
Manolo says, here is the wonderfully informative article on the Tim Gunn from the NJ.com.
Gunn is not a judge, and he is not even a fashion designer, which is crucial to his success both on the show and at Parsons The New School For Design. “I don’t have a particular point of view about fashion other than quality, taste and style,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “I’m respectful of all of it. I look at it all unencumbered.”
This, it is slightly disingenous, indeed it is self-contradictory. The particular point of the view of the Tim Gunn it is one which empasizes exactly what the Tim has indicated, the quality, the taste and the style.
One need only look at how the Tim dresses himself to know that this is a man who is restrained, intellectual, and concerned with decorum. He is intellectually detached enough to give the honest critique of the sometimes awful work, not because he does not have the point of view, but because he is the excellent teacher and the good critic.
The interview continues…
Gunn, 52, grew up in Washington, D.C., an introverted boy whose lack of ballfield exploits made him “the bane of my father’s existence.” (Gunn did take to competitive swimming: “It was nice and clean and you didn’t sweat.”) His mother started the library at the Central Intelligence Agency before giving birth to her two children, and his father was a career FBI agent, a close-mouthed man who served as J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostwriter.Gunn says he never considered fashion design as a career, yet he still couldn’t keep his hands off his younger sister’s Barbie dolls. “I had a Barbie obsession,” he says. “I was concerned with the whole Barbie lifestyle.”
It always starts with the Barbies.
February 15th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Hee! The Twistie wonders what it says of her that she could keep her hands off the Barbies, though she did play with hers, but spent most of her time dressing the GI Joes of her brothers in the Barbies clothes!
As for the magnificent Tim Gunn, he is superfantastic in the extreme.
February 15th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
The Twistie speaks the SuperTruth. The Tim Gunn is a spiritual master…with style.
The Martha had three identical dolls, all with black bowlcuts: BoobyHead1, BoobyHead2, and BoobyHead3, all of whom met terrible fates. She was Barbie-less. She was a Skipper Girl.
February 15th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Indeed - Kenneth King has said the same thing about Barbies.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:31 am
If ya want a good laff — dress your Power Rangers in the clothes of the Barbie!
February 16th, 2006 at 9:00 am
It always starts with the Barbies.
Indeed, it does. I attempted to turn my Barbies into cowgirls riding my Breyer horses, but alas the lack of the bending knees consigned them to a career as circus bareback riders.
February 16th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Maybe I could bring myself to hate Barbie slightly less than I do now, since it helped produce the likes of the sublime Tim Gunn.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Tim is the undisputed star of Project Runway!
February 16th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
I (heart) Tim Gunn!
Nobody knows how to use words like “befuddled” and “unencumbered” the way he does!
February 17th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Tim Gunn is my new role model–did you read through the entire article to that last line, where after he is shoved by a woman unhappy that last season’s Kara Saun lost, he simply thinks to himsef: “Better not to engage…”
What a classy way to rise above the classLESS. I will remember that line…
B