BRIGHT FELLOW Gunn

Despite confessing that he was a hair away from a psychotic breakdown not too long ago, style guru/Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn was rock-solid, poised, and sharp when he sat down for a conversation with NY1 correspondent Budd Mishkin Tuesday at New York's 92nd Street Y. Although bedecked in a dapper pinstripe suit and leather loafers, Gunn's fashion acumen wasn't at the core of what made his ever-luminous insight exceptionally radiant. Rather, it was the minutiae of his life, the threads and patches of his story, that made his insights so worthwhile. Here are ten of the most salient gems dispensed in that trademark Gunnsian style and punctuated with a self-effacing, "Oh shut up, Tim."

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