Last week, Kirstie Alley made her runway debut at NYFW, wearing some terrible blue ensemble. After disappearing for a little while (probably to get some kind of Xenu-audit, or whatever Scientologists do when they mysteriously disappear for weeks at a time), Kristie was BACK, with a vengeance. “Back” being some kind of code for Kristie’s continuing adventures in delusional numbers. I won’t even get into Kristie’s history of claiming nonsensical things about her size, because we’ve got a whole new interview to make fun of:

Kristie Alley has majorly slimmed down since her stint on the ABC show. “I’ve lost 100 pounds,” she told Entertainment Tonight in an interview that aired Tuesday.

“I feel like I’m back in my element,” the 60-year-old said. “I honestly didn’t even realize what I looked like.”

On Tuesday, Alley strutted her banging body on the Zang Toi catwalk in NYC. Clad in an elegant-yet-dramatic royal blue, rhinestone-adorned gown, she wowed the audience as she closed her designer pal’s Spring 2012 show.

“Before Dancing with the Stars, I bought these dresses from size 14 to 4,” she explained. “[They were] all the same dress, and I said, ‘You know what I really want? I really wanna be in this dress in a 4!’”

So does the actress — who says she is indeed now a size 4! — want to follow up her weight loss with a little nip and tuck? “I haven’t had plastic surgery but here’s the reason: People do plastic surgery to make you look younger,” she said. “I don’t think it makes you look younger. I like it can make you look weirder.”

Alley’s trim new physique might attract some more male suitors, but they should be prepared: she’s not looking for anything long term! “This is what I think about sex,” she said bluntly. “I think its fun to hookup every night for six months… Then it’s time to move on!”

[From Us Weekly]

100 pounds? But Kristie claimed she was a “stretchy size 8” when she began Dancing With the Stars, and now she’s maintaining that she went down to a size 4. A 100-pound weight loss does not equal a drop from a size 8 to a size 4. Plus, I don’t think she lost 100 pounds. I think she lost maybe 40 to fifty pounds, and went down from something like a size 18 to a 12. That’s what Tim Gunn thinks too (sort of), and he’s calling Kristie out for being insane:

When Kirstie Alley revealed in an Entertainment Tonight clip that she has lost 100 pounds since being on Dancing with the Stars and is down to a size 4, Tim Gunn raised a perfectly groomed, silver eyebrow.

In an interview with Tampa radio station 98.7 FM, the Project Runway star shed some light on the actress’ size claim saying, “There is a phenomenon out there right now that I call the lying deceptive shell game of vanity sizing. In fact a 4 is really a 6 or an 8.”

The chief creative director for Liz Claiborne explained his theory, which was based on an experiment he did at Parsons.

“We took a size 8 dress from 1980 one from 1990 and one from 2000 and compared them — the difference between them was two and a half inches in the waist alone!” said Gunn.

As for Alley’s true size, the fashion guru guesses that she’s between a size 8 and a 10.

“But she looks fabulous,” he added. “People are too size conscious.”

[From Us Weekly]

Okay, Tim was a lot nicer than most people about Kristie’s delusional sizing. Here’s the thing, though – I don’t think Kristie is being “fooled” by vanity sizing, meaning that the designers are to blame. I think she’s so crazy that her assistants probably sew in new labels to her size 12 or 14 clothes so that she can maintain this idea that she’s a “size 4”.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Season Nine of Project Runway premieres tonight. Are you going to watch it? I’m not. After last season’s finale, I officially and publicly quit that bitch, and I’m sticking to my promise. Gretchen was a gigantic, knit granny-pantied bitch too far. So, as I’m preparing to steel myself from watching, my biggest concern was my withdrawal from Tim Gunn, Mr. Fabulous himself. I have a long record of adoring Tim Gunn, and usually I find him to be a wonderfully bitchy truth-teller. But I may need to boycott Mr. Gunn after this mess. Gunn was on George Lopez’s show on Tuesday night, and George and Tim both started in about Hillary Clinton’s style. Now, I’m not above some mockery of Hillary’s pantsuits (seriously, she loves pantsuits, didn’t you know?), nor am I above chuckling to myself over some regrettable hair decision by Hillary. What I can’t stand is when some light-hearted mockery (“Put down the scrunchie, Hills”) turns into something kind of gross and bullying.

Tim Gunn doesn’t think Hillary Clinton is making it work! In an appearance of Lopez Tonight that aired Tuesday, the fashion expert mocked the Secretary of State’s “Jersey Shore style.”

“Why must she dress that way?” the 57-year-old quipped. “I think she’s confused about her gender [with] all these big, baggy menswear tailored pantsuits.”

“No, I’m really serious,” he added. “[They're] unflattering.”

When Lopez, 50, asked how the former New York senator could “hide her cankles,” Gunn said it was just a matter of adjusting her hemline. “Well, if her pants didn’t stop an inch above her ankle, she could hide the cankle!”

Gunn might not be a fan of the former First Lady’s choices in clothing, but he is impressed by her work in politics. “I have great respect for her intellect and her tenacity and for what she does four our country in her governmental role,” he said. “I just wish she could send a stronger message about American fashion.”

[From Us Weekly]

“I think she’s confused about her gender…”???? Seriously? You’re going there, Tim? Hillary is 63 years old and she’s been a pants-wearing public figure for most of her adult life. She likes pants. She likes pantsuits. She’s busy. She has a important job. She has more important things to do than look for cute outfits. Not every woman needs to give a crap about fashion. And besides that, can we all agree that whether it’s Shiloh Jolie-Pitt or Hillary Clinton, it’s really not cool to associate “wearing pants” with “gender identity confusion”? Some women just love pants. Badly played, Mr. Gunn.

By the way, if Hillary’s elbow wasn’t Team Aniston, I think it would be completely appropriate for Angelina Jolie to come out and defend Hillary’s Montenegro Style.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Below is a video that NY Magazine’s Vulture column & Dlisted just got their hands on – Tim Gunn discussing the past season of Project Runway, and last week’s big reveal that the winner was… the bitch everybody hated. The unprofessional, tacky, budget, nasty, two-faced wench known as Gretchen Jones. Go here for my thoughts on the finale – and here for a bitchy post-victory interview Gretchen did. In this video, Tim is addressing an audience gathered for an event for Kate Spade in Pennsylvania.

Tim crams a lot of bitching into a short monologue. He complains about Nina Garcia and Michael Kors’ blatant hypocrisy, gives a nudge to Jessica Simpson, and basically sounds as displeased as all of us that Gretchen won. Also – why did the PR producers edit Tim out of the judging? I would have loved to have seen Tim trying to reason with the Kors and Garcia beasts, and it would have made for interesting television. Here’s a little more:

*When the show’s judging panel was deadlocked, Klum asked Gunn what his opinion was. When she learned that he agreed with her that Mondo should win, she asked him to join her in appealing directly to Garcia and Kors in favor of crowning him the winner. Subsequently, Gunn reports, “I went with Heidi and we made quite a case for our candidate.”

*At the time, Klum was upset with Gunn about a quote of his, published in the L.A. Times, about “crack smoking judges” — a reference to how much he disagreed with many of the judging panel’s decisions this season. When the two agreed on the Mondo question, Gunn reports that Klum asked him, “Can you remove my crack-smoker badge?” Gunn responded, “Yes, because Nina and Michael are smoking enough for all of us!”

*Gunn wraps up by offering this final, “oh well” take on the judges’ decision: “Mondo will do fabulously anyway, and Gretchen really needs the money.”

[From Wordsmoker]

Sigh… I love Tim. He’s the Greek chorus of Project Runway – he stands in for the audience in real time, and Tim thinks you’re smoking crack, then you are totally a crackhead. If Tim thinks you are a crappy designer, you are one. Tim hath decreed it!

Now, my love for Tim not withstanding, I still don’t think I’m going to watch next season. I’m over this bitch, at long last. But Tim will be forever!

The PSA below, featuring Tim Gunn, made CB cry. It got me choked up too, but I didn’t start crying until I got to People Magazine’s cover story. Just FYI – hearing Tim Gunn talk about suicide amongst gay teens will really get you worked up. Tim recorded the PSA as part of a new initiative by The Trevor Project, a gay suicide prevention project that some celebrities – like Kathy Griffin and Daniel Radcliffe – have been working with for years. The Trevor Project does a lot of work with gay suicide prevention, and they even have a 24-hour hotline – for more information about their work, and for the donation page, go here.

Anyway, Tim Gunn recorded a very sad PSA about gay suicide. Tim reiterated columnist Dan Savage’s movement of “It Gets Better” (which we discussed yesterday). Tim confesses his own suicide attempt at the age of 17 years old… and… Jesus. Sad.

If Tim tells you not to do something, don’t do. Whether it’s in the workroom or in your personal life, take Tim’s advice. He’s like Jesus, only he’s gay, celibate, fabulous, and he will bitch you out for not working a Manolo.

Back to the serious subject – People Magazine’s cover is also about gay suicide and bullying, and the cover is of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student whose intimate relations with a man were recorded live by his straight roommate. People excerpts the story here – what keeps coming back to me in the stories of young gay suicides is that these teens felt like they were alone in the world, that no one understood them or heard them. I hope that this movement by some celebrities is one that if you’re young and gay and in pain, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. There is a kid like you in every town. And it does get better. Listen to Papa Gunn.

A few weeks ago, Tim Gunn began his epic publicity tour to promote his book, I Can’t Even With These Bitches (I wish). Throughout the tour, Tim spent A LOT of time dishing and bitching and calling out bitches left and right – mostly, he called out fashion people, but he also had some words for a few celebrities. One of those celebrities was Taylor Momsen. Tim not only had some thoughts about our beloved Raccoon McPantless’s style, but he had also met her and worked with her while doing a cameo on Gossip Girl. His thoughts on McPantless were not lovely – he called her “pathetic” for not being professional on set, and claimed that Our Raccoon was a “diva” and a “brat”. When asked about Tim Gunn’s comments, Taylor shockingly didn’t light a cigarette and call Tim Gunn named. She was almost… mature about it:

Taylor Momsen is doing her own thing and she doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her career path, personality or goth look. The face of Madonna’s Material Girl line and Gossip Girl starlet has responded to one opponent in particular, beloved Project Runway fashion guru Tim Gunn, who called the starlet a “pathetic brat.”

“I don’t respond to that,” Taylor told reporters on the carpet at Madonna and her daughter Lourdes‘ launch of the new Material Girl fashion line at Macy’s Herald Square in NYC Wednesday night.

Taylor’s camp also supported her strong will, with someone yelling, “We don’t respond to name calling.”

As for her other haters, the 17-year-old said you can either love her or leave her.

“It’s about owning it no matter what anyone says,” Taylor said. “This is who I am and this is who I am going to be. It’s about every girl being true to themselves.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Hm… whose side to be on? Well, I mean, I’m still Team Gunn forever and always, and I do think his criticism of Momsen was probably right on target – after all, this was behavior that he witnessed first-hand. But I will give Taylor some credit for not engaging and not turning this into some kind of epic grudge match. That shows surprising maturity. Well played, Raccoon McPantless.

Someone had to say it! And thank God that someone is my best friend, Tim Gunn. Tim’s “Bitches Better Recognize” Tour continues, and in today’s chapter, Mr. Gunn takes on Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan and… Suri Cruise? I accept the criticisms of Gaga, because God knows, she loves it when we talk about her, and anyway, Tim only really says that she’s just copying the meat dress from a trend in the 1960s. The Lohan criticism… well, I could just listen to him talk about Lindsay Lohan all day and night. I want him to talk about her weave. I want him to talk about her lips. But in the end, he only talks about her gig with Ungaro last year. Then comes the segue into Suri Cruise. While I agree with Tim on general principle (I’m always going to be Team Gunn), I’m not sure he should be going so hard on little Suri:

Lindsay Lohan may be working on getting her career back on track, but her venture last fall as the fashion director at Ungaro was ghastly, says Tim Gunn. The “Project Runway” mentor told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Thursday’s Access Hollywood Live that Lohan’s collection was a major fashion faux pas.

“Mr. Ungaro is dead and God knows he must have been rolling over in his grave, but I thought, this is one of the last couture houses left in this entire world. Lindsay Lohan is the creative director? How absurd is that!” Gunn told Bush and Hoover of the actress, who once served as a “Project Runway” guest judge. “It would be like asking, I don’t know, like, asking Suri Cruise to pilot a fighter jet.”

Speaking of Suri, Gunn, who just released his latest book, “Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work,” fired off on the toddler’s looks and her famous parents.

“Suri is, she’s her mother and father’s dress up doll and I feel in many ways she’s a fashion victim and it’s just very inappropriate,” Gunn critiqued.

As for those kitten heels the 4-year-old has sported, Gunn said those don’t work at all.

“I think it’s unsafe too. She’s a little kid and [she’s] tottering around on these stilettos or quasi stilettos. It’s really inappropriate and I feel bad for her in a manner of speaking,” he said.

While he’s critical of Suri’s outfits and Lindsay Lohan’s fashion gigs, Gunn is less concerned about Lady Gaga and her MTV Video Music Awards meat dress.

“Well, it’s not fashion, it’s a costume and it was meant to provoke, it did, people are talking about it, but do you really want to smell your costume,” the former Parsons New School For Design faculty members said. “I mean, God only knows what it was like.”

Gunn isn’t sure though that Lady Gaga’s fashion forays will continue to move people.

“I have great respect for her talents, I think that this way of presenting herself is going to grow tired and stale eventually, and if it’s about shock value, what’s next? The mind reels when you really think about where it could go,” he said.

[From MSNBC]

See, I think Tim was just bashing Katie and Tom for not saying “no” to Suri, or for even buying Suri those pumps. And they were pumps, Tim, or even kitten heels, not stilettos. Personally, I agree that Katie and Tom use Suri as their little dress-up doll and that they should be saying “no” to her. But I also think that Suri is picking out a lot of her crap – just as Shiloh Jolie-Pitt picks out her tomboy gear. And at the end of the day, who really wants to pick on a little kid for their fashion sense? Especially when we could pick on Suri for choosing all of those horrible outfits for her mom. In any case, Tim better watch his ass, because Xenu is about climb all up in that sh-t.

Header: Suri & Katie in 2009. Credit: WENN.

Not content to simply bash Anna Wintour, Martha Stewart, Isaac Mizrahi, all of Conde Nast, and the Real Housewives, Tim Gunn is now taking on our beloved HARDCORE pantless brat Taylor Momsen. And he really doesn’t hold back! There’s no “Oh, she’s only 17 years old, maybe pants aren’t for her” wishy-washy hedging. Oh, no. Tim tells E! News that he met and worked with Taylor when he filmed a cameo for Gossip Girl, and he was less extremely unimpressed by the little jackass. Here’s his take, plus his thoughts on Tareq and Michaele Salahi being “sociopaths” – love it:

A few weeks back, Gunn, who’s making the rounds at Fashion Week to tout his new book, Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work, shot a guest spot as himself on the fourth episode of this season’s Gossip Girl. And he found Momsen to be “sad” and pathetic.”

“What a diva!” he told E! News of the 17-year-old Taylor Momsen. “She was pathetic, she couldn’t remember her lines, and she didn’t even have that many. I thought to myself ‘why are we all being held hostage by this brat?”

Gunn said he is all about taking the high road, but that if he was a show regular, he’d take her aside in her dressing room and give her a good talking to. The main problem, he says, was her constant BlackBerry use.

“I’d say, ‘You know young lady, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who are just as attractive and even smarter than you. Why are you acting like this show is a huge burden on you?’ She was on her phone during every break, I wanted to tell her, ‘If you weren’t on your BlackBerry, you can retain this stuff.’ ”

Gunn says that he’s not trying to assassinate her character, but that she annoyed the director and the entire crew.

“I learned from teaching to stick with the topic, I don’t get involved in character appraisals,” Gunn explained. “I’d just ask her ‘do you want to share with me why you’re always on your phone?’ At one point the director leaned in and whispered to me, ‘this is day in, day out, my life.’ She annoyed the entire crew.”

The Project Runway mentor did have kind words for Momsen’s costar Penn Badgley though, calling him a “delight” to work with, along with the rest of the cast.

As for that battle with Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, Gunn laughs it off.

“Of course I’m scared of her, who isn’t?” he chuckled. “But life’s too short to navigate through like that.”

Gunn also admits he’s reality-TV junkie and weighs in on the The Real Housewives of D.C.’s most-hated couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, along with the batty cast of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

“The Salahis are sociopaths! They believe their own lies,” said Gunn. “And It’s like we’ve gone back to ancient Rome,” he says of the near-nuclear fistfight between Danielle Staub and Teresa Giudice during the RHNJ reunion show.

“We’ve gone back to the Colosseum where we watch people rip each other limb to limb. I want a DNA test—how far are these women from wild animals? What do they take from this behavior? My advice is to take the high road. You’ll never regret it. I’ve been pushed, but I discipline myself and an hour later I’m so grateful.”

Right on, Tim.

[From E! News]

I want a t-shirt that says, “Why are we all being held hostage by this brat?” It’s perfect, isn’t it? And she’s “pathetic” and a “diva” and she’s not smart at all. Figures. If Tim says it, it must be true. And if Tim like Penn Badgley, I guess I have to as well. Penn is my new favorite. All hail Tim.

Tim in Chicago and Taylor in Paris, both on Sept. 13, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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.

If he was anybody else, I would be telling him to move on. But because it’s Tim Gunn, and because he refuses to stop talking sh-t about Anna Wintour, I want him to keep talking. While Tim promotes his book, he’s been verbally bitch-slapping Anna Wintour – nay, all of Conde Nast – for the past few weeks. He’s been talking sh-t about just about everybody though – but for some reason, it’s the Wintour stuff that gets the most play. Anyway, Page Six caught up with Tim at the Project Runway show yesterday, and he was in good spirits. Probably because he knows Anna doesn’t have the balls of steels it would take to come over and bitch him out in person:

Tim Gunn says he expects “hell to freeze over” if he runs into Anna Wintour this week. The fashion expert writes in his new book that he saw Wintour being carried by bodyguards down the stairs after a 2006 fashion show. Gunn, promoting his book, “Gunn’s Golden Rules,” said Wintour went “ballistic” at his comments.

He told us after the “Project Runway” show, “I wasn’t slinging mud or criticizing her character. More than 30 people must have seen it. I’m just the only one brave enough to tell the truth. Lord knows hell would freeze over if I came face to face with her here, but I probably wouldn’t be able to see past her handlers.”

[From Page Six]

Another beautiful slam – Anna is surrounded by “handlers” – meaning, she’s out of touch, she consciously surrounds herself with sycophants, she’s a f-cking joke. I want to marry Tim.

Page Six had another story about Wintour too – although it started out as a Naomi Campbell story. Tonight, there will be a big charity event (that CB and I were invited to, alas, we aren’t going!) called Fashion’s Night Out. Wintour is one of the organizers, and designers donate their clothes, models donate their time, and it raises a lot of money for charity. Well, Naomi Campbell was one of the models, and many sources claimed that Naomi was a big, fat pill (shocking). Some claimed that Naomi wouldn’t agree to come unless Wintour put her on an upcoming cover of Vogue (ha). Anyway, Naomi threatened Anna with a phone or something, because Anna released a brisk statement: “Naomi was on time, professional and a joy to work with.” She said, cowering in fear of The Naomi.

Anna in Sept. 2009 & January & March 2010. Credit: WENN.

Don’t you wish that Tim Gunn was on a book tour all the time? I’ve been enjoying how many Tim Gunn stories there are lately, but it’s only because he’s promoting his new bitchy tell-all/style-guide/life-guide, Sluts Better Recognize Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons For Making It Work. It’s out NOW. Go out and buy it. I am. Anyway, it seems that a large part of Tim’s book and Tim’s book tour is taking bitches down. One of these bitches is Vogue’s Anna “Nuclear” Wintour. Yesterday we covered the progress made on the Wintour front – Tim basically telling the story about Wintour’s freakout when he publicly called her out, etc. Tim also went on The Daily Show last night (he and Jon Stewart are tight, Jon is a big Project Runway fan – for real – and I believe this is Tim’s third appearance on the show) and he discussed the Wintour situation in more detail, and was just fabulous, in general:

Tim has done additional press too. Here are more highlights:

Gunn on RHONJ: “Forgive me, New Jersey Housewives,” he says, “but there’s a trash element to them that’s abhorrent. The message they send is, ‘You want to be a TV star? Yell obscenities, act inappropriately, throw furniture, hit people and you’ll have great success.’ It’s appalling.”

Gunn on neckties: “The number of men who don’t know how to tie a necktie because they don’t own one,” says Gunn. “You must!” he adds, voice rising in frustration. “You need a dark suit, a white shirt and a necktie . . . It’s out of respect for people. Respect!”

Gunn is pretty sure he saw J. Edgar Hoover in drag: Gunn’s father, for instance, was an FBI agent and ghostwriter for J. Edgar Hoover. (Hoover was a secret cross-dresser, and Gunn is pretty sure he saw him in drag; his dad told him he was meeting the actress who played Ethel in “I Love Lucy.”).

Gunn was once suicidal: He has a fractious relationship with his mother, used to speak with a debilitating stutter, and hated school. At 17, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing pills and, plagued with depression, attempted several more times. He also considers himself asexual, is celibate and hasn’t had a boyfriend since 1982.

Gunn on libraries: “Call me a schoolmarm,” he says, “but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”

Gunn tells a funny story about Diane von Furtsenberg: One hilarious scene has him in a downscale diner with a famished Diane von Furstenberg, who announced: “Somebody, anyone, please bring me a hot dog!”

On Anna Wintour: a “sphinx without a riddle.”

On Martha & Alexis Stewart: Martha Stewart once flipped out when Gunn brought a Diet Coke into her studio — she had banned the caffeinated beverage, deeming it unhealthy. And Stewart’s daughter, Alexis, “strikes me as one of the angriest people I have ever met . . . There’s something incredibly ‘Grey Gardens’-y about [her and Martha],” he writes.

On Michael Kors: “a diplomat who takes the high road.”

[From The NY Post]

Do I need to say anything else? Buy this book. For real.

Tim Gunn on May 27, 2010 & July 21, 2010. Credit: WENN.