Everything you need to know about Project Runway's style expert.
- Tim is from Washington, D.C. He was born on 29th July 1953.
- He attended university at Corcoran College of Art and Design, and later took up a teaching post at the school. In 1983, he began working as Assistant Director of Admissions at the Parsons School for Design in New York City.
- In 2000, Tim took over the Fashion department at Parsons, completely changing the school in the process. He said of his experience at the school: "It ended up being a tremendous labor of love. It was hugely daunting and hugely unsettling in many ways, but what kept me focused and kept me on a straight and narrow line were the students."
- He lives in New York City, which he calls "The most fabulous city in the world."
- He wasn't keen on Project Runway when he was originally approached about it. "I was a little haughty and I said that I felt what they wanted to do sounded terrible and that the industry was in enough trouble without a reality show," he said.
- Gunn left Parsons in 2007 to take on a new role as creative director for Liz Claiborne, Inc.
- He starred in his own spin-off show, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, for two seasons.
- He is not a fan of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour. In 2015 he told Meredith Viera that he had been involved in "several" arguments with Wintour, stating "When people misbehave around me I call them out for their bad behavior."
- Tim is happily single, and doesn't think he'll ever settle down with a man. "I just don't see it happening," he said. "I'm really the happiest guy in the world, and the luckiest guy in the world. I don't feel any sense of something missing. At all."
- He has written his own book – a style guide called Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.