Tim Gunn Question Quickfire
What was your last big splurge?
My apartment.
What are you most vain about?
Me (laughs). I have no ego, but I’m vain.
What are you most shy about?
Basically, I’m a very shy person, and it was teaching- 29 years of it- that caused me to come to terms with that. It was either going to kill me or cure me. Basically, I’m a very shy person.
Pick Your Poison.
A Manhattan, on the rocks.
Favorite book?
Oh my god- it all depends on what mood I’m in. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
What TV show can’t you miss?
Two- How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory.
Any Pets?
Regrettably, no. I travel too much, I couldn’t do that to a pet.
What’s for breakfast?
Dunkin Donuts coffee, and their chocolate glazed donut.
What do you find easiest to forgive?
I find that fashion mistakes are very easy to forgive.
What do you find impossible to forgive?
Rudeness.
Biggest indulgence?
Free time. Is that fair?
Who is your mentor?
Many people- my mother, my boss, I am always saying Diane Von Furstenberg. She is the person I go to when I’m really in a jam.
Where are you happiest?
I am not an unhappy person. I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I’m happy wherever I am.
What piece of art would you most like to own?
I live with a lot of artwork- I just gave a piece away to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington because they were having a retrospective of this artist and I thought I shouldn’t have this- they need it. It was a painting on paper by an artist of the name of Anne Truitt. She was a mentor when she was still alive.
Favorite vacation spot?
I haven’t been on a vacation since the summer of 2001.
Most treasured possession?
I’m a thing person- I have a lot of things. But no, I’m not a hoarder. If anything I’m kind of OCD. It’s a Chinese screen that my mother and grandmother bought- I’m very sentimental about it. It’s in my office at Liz.
Favorite fictional character on TV?
On television? I guess Barney, on How I Met Your Mother.
Favorite song?
Anything Aretha Franklin did in the 60’s.
Always...
Always be confident in what you’re wearing.
Never...
Unless you’re at the beach, never bare your midriff.
