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:

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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.