This Tim Gunn story isn’t as juicy as previous stories from Tim’s fabulous book tour, but in Tim’s defense, he can’t talk about Anna Wintour EVERY time, you know? In this mini-interview with Wonderwall, Tim tackles his hatred of Twitter and how the young’uns just want to be famous and how they’ll do the most idiotic things to achieve that goal. He comes very close to saying that we’re the new Rome in decline, and you can really see his point.

Wonderwall: The new book is getting lots of buzz.
Tim Gunn: Well actually the book in its original inception wasn’t what it ended up being. Originally it was going to be modern manners for the digital age … And I began to write, well I began to reflect upon things that I’ve seen and that have happened to me, that I’ve observed and it ended up being much more of a quasi memoir because it was so peppered with stories. I didn’t know how the Simon & Schuster people would respond to this so I turned in a draft at a fairly early stage and they said, ‘We really like this so keep going,’ so it really evolved into something that I never intended to do originally.

WW: What can we expect from your next book?
TG: More of the same!

WW: Speaking of modern manners for the digital age, what do you think of celebrities who twitter fight?
TG: I think it’s absolutely absurd and I don’t understand it and frankly it’s a dimension of the universe with which I don’t choose to engage. People keep saying, ‘why aren’t you twittering?’ I don’t want to twitter! [Laughs]

WW: You know, Courtney Love recently had a Twitter fight with her daughter.
TG: Outrageous!

WW: But some people are fake twitter fighting for publicity.
TG: What do you mean? Are you serious?

WW: We’re serious. There are rumors that Kim Kardashian and Scott Disick are fake twitter fighting for publicity.
TG: It’s not good. It’s really not good. I was on the subway fairly recently and there were 8-10 teenage girls who were chattering away and suddenly they started yelling profanities at each other and then they started slapping each other. Then they cascaded into laughter. So the whole thing was a joke on the crowded subway car and I thought, great this is what people are picking up from what we see in myriad media from television to the Internet to now twitter.

WW: It’s about getting attention no matter how you get it.
TG: Yeah. It’s a horrible thing. It makes me reflect upon ancient Rome and the coliseum and people being torn to shreds by wild animals.

WW: For amusement?
TG: Exactly!

[From Wonderwall]

I used to absolutely hate Twitter and the fact that so many B-list (or worse) celebrities embraced it, but I’ve gotten to the point where I actually enjoy it. Plus, we get so many stories from celebrities being dumb on Twitter these days – I mean, just with Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and LeAnn Rimes’ tweets, we’ve gotten so, so many stories. And plus, did you know that Karl Lagerfeld has a Twitter account?!? And John Cusack. So it’s not ALL bad. I see Gunn’s point and everything, and I understand why he’s not on Twitter, but part of me wishes that he was, just because Tim’s real-time tweets would be fabulous.