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Q&A with Project Runway's Tim Gunn and Daniel Vosovic
On Saturday at Macy's, Amy Odell sat down with Project Runway season two runner-up Daniel Vosovic and Parsons fashion department chair Tim Gunn to talk reality shows, spring looks, and what everyone really thought of Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's collection. In tomorrow's paper: her report from the first day of the season three auditions.
Tim Gunn's voice is big. It booms and fills the room in a warm kind of way. He talks with his hands; he wore his signature black pinstripe suit and a black turtle-neck. When it comes to criticizing fashion in any way, he immediately adopts his "Project Runway" hyper-critical expression.
Observer: One girl, a model for someone else, said she went to Parsons and you were kind of a celebrity at the school.
Tim: Ha, ha, ha, ha! Well it's funny the students infrequently talk about the show. I don 't know whether they think it's not cool to engage me in a conversation about it. But what is funny are phrases like "make it work." I mean it 's a Parsons term--it's a phrase I used at Parsons for years and now that it's kind of branded on the show, when I use it at Parsons people laugh. It's like, "No, no, no, no, no. It was born here, it's mean to be here!"
Observer: You must get "Make it work!" on the street all the time. read more »
Tim: They usually shout that from cars. Ha, ha, ha, ha!
