Pow, right in the kisser! When it comes to the fashion industry and all its facets, Tim Gunn’s always got a thing or two to say. The style luminary and Project Runway mentor has been in the industry since the eighties, and has seen trends and tastemakers come and go. With that inherent knowledge, he’s spoken out on everyone from Anna Wintour to Yeezus himself. Keep scrolling to read some of Gunn’s most honest words.
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Pow, right in the kisser! When it comes to the fashion industry and all its facets, Tim Gunn’s always got a thing or two to say. The style luminary and Project Runway mentor has been in the industry since the eighties, and has seen trends and tastemakers come and go. With that inherent knowledge, he’s spoken out on everyone from Anna Wintour to Yeezus himself. Keep scrolling to read some of Gunn’s most honest words.
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An unpopular opinion for Pablo. On Access Hollywood Live on September 13, 2016, Gunn trashed Kanye West’s Yeezy line. “I’m totally perplexed about why the fashion industry has not looked at these, frankly, dumb, basic clothes and cried 'hoax,’” he said, six days after the rapper’s Yeezy Season 4 fashion show. "Kanye West is a sphinx without a riddle. I just don't understand why people are so in awe. [The models in the show were] basically wearing stretch undergarments. I think the only thing dumber than these clothes would be the people who would buy these clothes.”
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There were no blurred lines about this. Gunn hated the model’s sexy Julien Macdonald gown, complete with a plunging neckline that reached her belly button, for a Harpers Bazaar party during New York Fashion Week 2016.
"If I saw this at a party, all I could do would be to drink. I couldn't eat. There's absolutely no way," Gunn said on the September 12, 2016, episode of E!’s Fashion Police, where he’s a co-host. "This dress is so appallingly vulgar and revealing. Why wear anything? Why not just take it all off?"
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Although plus-size designer Tipton won Project Runway’s 14th season, she didn’t necessarily get Gunn’s vote of confidence.
“I’ve never seen such hideous clothes in my life: bare midriffs; skirts over crinoline, which give the clothes, and the wearer, more volume; see-through skirts that reveal panties; pastels, which tend to make the wearer look juvenile; and large-scale floral embellishments that shout ‘prom,'” he wrote in a September 8, 2016, column for the Washington Post.
And despite the fact that he’s all for inclusivity in fashion, “her victory reeked of tokenism,” he continued. “One judge told me that she was ‘voting for the symbol’ and that these were clothes for a ‘certain population.’ I said they should be clothes all women want to wear. I wouldn’t dream of letting any woman, whether she’s a size 6 or a 16, wear them.”
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Hold up! Although Beyoncé’s nude latex Givenchy Haute Couture gown, covered with pearls and hand-painted flowers, garnered plenty of praise from the Beyhive. Gunn begged to differ.
"It has S&M written all over it," Gunn said on the May 3, 2016, episode of Fashion Police. "Beyoncé is having her moment. She is the center of the pop culture universe right now. Shouldn't we have the highest expectations of her? I'm just flabbergasted by this misstep.”
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A Dior don’t! Following the 2016 Oscars, Gunn shared his opinion on the Joy actress’ black lace Dior Haute Couture gown.
“I loathed this look,” he noted on the February 29 episode of Fashion Police. “I thought it was the amateur hour. From my many years of teaching, this to me looked like a student project. The evidence in the boning, the lace over it; it was all the sort of cheap shots that students pull!”
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The Vogue September 2016 cover girl may have won Anna Wintour over, but she’s still got a very vocal critic. “I shouldn't say that she doesn't [have the ‘it' factor],” he noted in a November 2015 interview with The Huffington Post. "I don't know her — she may be a perfectly lovely young woman. I just feel that she's tainted by the Kardashian aura of yuck!"
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In a New York Daily News interview where called Yeezy’s pieces “dumb,” he also got a dig in towards West’s in-laws: the Kardashian-Jenners. “I don’t care what you wear as long as you don’t dress like a Kardashian,” he noted in December 2015. “It’s vulgar, period. But that’s what they are. I believe that their place in history will be because of this phenomenon that really is about nothing. And aren’t people getting bored of it?”
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Picking on someone his own size! Gunn got the cold shoulder from Wintour after revealing an embarrassing moment of hers.
"I was asked by the New York Post... 'What is the most unforgettable moment you’ve ever seen in fashion?’" Gunn recalled on the Meredith Vieira Show in September 2015, calling their relationship hostile. "[I had a] very matter of fact response and it was, 'Watching Anna Wintour being carried down five flights of stairs from a fashion show.’”
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"I feel my IQ is plummeting,” Gunn griped while flipping through Kim Kardashian’s book during a June 2015 visit at Us Weekly’s offices.
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