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.
Timm Gunn may be the only nice person in the fashion industry. I mean really, why r they all so mean and nasty?
He was priceless on the Daily Show !
that top photo of anna is hilarious! she looks like my mastiff in the middle of a sneezing fit.
I take it back.
it’s not a troll doll that she looks like.
it’s THIS.
http://jeremyberg.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/falcor.jpg
go Naomi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Praise St Angie
LOLLLL!!!!!!! She does, she does.
That toxic bitch has single-handedly destroyed Vogue magazine. I cancelled my subscription years ago.
Incidently, Fashion’s Night Out is tonight (Friday September 10). No tickets needed for this one; it’s all over town. I may drop by Bloomingdales just to see what’s up.
@ original Kate. LOL!!
@ Praise St Angie. What an incredible likeness. 🙂
I will always and forever love Tim Gunn!
@ Praise St. Angie the likeness is incredible!! I love Tim Gunn!! Tim rules!!
In the second-to-last picture, I think she looks like a mouse lemur: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/05/09/science/050908-Sciencepix_index.html
Tim, be careful Anna Will cut you.
@Cheyenne. Totally agree with you about Vogue. I used to LOVE that magazine before Wintour. When I saw that film–“The September Issue,” I realized that the only thing I like about Vogue now were the pics directed by Grace Coddington. And, it really disturbed me how Anna did everything in her power to make Grace feel like crap. Just sad. Definitely NOT a fan.
What I like about Tim Gunn is that he’s reporting what he saw her do. That’s the beauty of it. He’s not trashing her character. He’s letting her character speak for itself. And she’s taking the bait. All she had to say was, “Yes, I did that because I was wearing God-awful heals, or whatever.” End of story. Instead, she tried to call him up and intimidate him, and then, she called him a liar–all of which has made her look even worse! Too funny 🙂
@ JR: You must be as idiotic as Naomi. Tim is awesome. Please keep talking shit. Spread the truth. I will buy his book. He needs to dog the DOG NAOMI. And Wintour’s face is priceless in the first pic. I think its a way better look then her oh your taking a picture face. EWWWE
What is up with Naomi’s face? More botox? She looks completely different than she did at the trial a while back.
In the top pic, Anna looks like a horse trying to eat an apple through a fence…
And WHEN is she going to charge her hairstyle?
Taking fashion advice from Anna Wintour is like taking dieting advice from a fat person. She might wear expensive clothing, but she doesn’t do it well.
Tim Gunn needs to move on. Anna Wintour has no idea who or what he is and if they did meet she wouldn’t look at him and her bodyguards would block his view of her. Move on Tim. You’re starting to sound like a nasty old queen!!
@ Praise St. Angie!:
Sorry but I called that picture months ago as a Leann Rimes lookalike but it does look like Anna Wintour too. Who knew.
http://jeremyberg.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/falcor.jpg
The fashion industry is so, so misogynistic. The whole machine is so damaging to women’s psyches, spirit and bodies. I can’t understand how/why it’s still in full force in the 21st Century. Self-hatred amongst women that just gets perpetuated, digitized, downloaded, etc. on and on.
Fashion should be fun, playful and joyful and should celebrate women. This current industry is barbaric.
Fashions Night Out is also going on all over LA as well–Rodeo, Melrose, Sunset Plaza, Century City and Bev Center. Woo Hoo!!
That woman is just so skeevy. I’m glad I’m not the only one trying to figure out what she looks like. I think it’s some sort of creature from a sci-fi movie. She is seriously scary.
Okay, all that money and access to stylists and her hair is that weird color? She needs help. Not just with her hair, either.
I will give her credit for not being pulled and stretched. She seems to have avoided the knife, for the most part.
No, she looks like Zira from planet of the apes…
http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/8414-14970.gif
The idea of Naomi threatening Anna Wintour (with a blackberry?) is hilarious.
They are all so bitchy and mean because they are hungry.
@ juliana & Electric: Couldn’t agree more!
I noticed when I watched “The September Issue” that Wintour is passionless, almost lifeless, like a robot. She seems to care more about the procedure of putting together the magazine than the content itself. Her fashion sense is not good, either. She wears hideous clothes (plaid, really?) and has a ridiculous, juvenile haircut. With her much-hailed alleged fashion savvy, she should know that bangs are better suited for the 5 and under set, not for 60+.
Viva Tim Gunn! 🙂
Tim is silly bitching about Anna Wintour-remember what happened to that devil wears prada girl? I mean, sure she wrote the novel but what has she done lately?
I’m not a fan of Anna either but argh I would *not* want to mess with her!
What I find incredible is how the fashion world is dominated by some of the most ugly women – who dictate what weight models should be, who dictate what women ought to wear, who dictate which physical features are in or out.
As far as I’m concerned, the two female honchos of Vogue are vile to look at, yet they pull the punches. It’s about time someone went contrary to what these feral witches represent.
First picture is hilarious.
Feed her a carrot and she’ll stomp her little hooves for you.
Naomi has been criticizing American Vogue for years. This goes WAAAAAYYYY back. She told the story of how she had to illicit Yves Saint Laurent himself in order to secure a French Vogue cover.
Anna Wintour needs a new haircut and an upper-lip wax.
That is not Naomi.
I like Tim, but i love that bitch, Anna…oh the drama, the drama!
@funnygirl-what has the Devil Wears Prada author done lately you ask? Written more best-selling books. They all can’t be adapted into movies, ya know.
If I remember correctly Anna’s daughter isn’t interested in Vogue or the fashion industry. I saw some of the September issue on DVD
coucou, that most certainly IS Naomi. It’s her face, her ring, her boyfriend.
What is this word “feeze”?
Love Gunn’s wit but in all fairness, let’s take a step back and examine HIS photo above. Is Wintour really all that much…er… less appealing to look at? Just asking.
Anna Wintour did not get to be a fashion icon without a lot of success over many years. Thus, people criticizing her fashion sense who have never been successful in the fashion world are a little silly. She wears the haircut she has because it works for her. The proper style is one you develop for yourself, not copied from some starlet who looks nothing like you. She has been highly influential and is still considered quite influential in fashion.
Tim Gunn keeps talking about the anecdote because people keep asking him and because her staff threatened him. He’s got a decent resume of his own in fashion and, at his age, does not need to tolerate intimidation.
One more thing about Anna Wintour. She famously wears a size 8, not a 2 or a 00. An 8 may be a stretch for some women but it’s a lot closer to a 10 or a 12 than it is to a 00. She also plays tennis daily to keep her shape. While her personality could use a bit of a makeover, she is a good role model for women in terms of how she cares for herself. No years of bulimia like some other celebs so she is not having to pay the price now in hip replacements or knee replacements.
Ha, at first I read it as, “Hell will freeze over before I see another winter again”.
Now Falcor the Luck Dragon is ruined for me. I thought we supposed to be having fuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnn!!!
Now, we all know that Naomi is so freaking insane, she could make a rooster birth kittens, but she’s right about American Vogue. I just found it odd that I put Naomi Campbell and ‘Fashion’ in the same sentence. What with all of the violence and Russians, you’d forget that she has years of experience within a realm that isn’t jewel and punching-based. Vogue (and Vanity Fair for that matter) have never been interested in changing up the colour scheme. She did well by going to Lauren, who was famously the first designer to employ women of colour for his shows in 1963 and it was a huge-ass scandal. During the Halle Berry Oscar bid (I don’t particularly care for her acting, but that’s not germane to my point), absolutely no one working for her could secure a cover photo/story in VF. Must we all be frequently enamoured of whatever Sienna Blakely or whachamaimplant in perpetuity? Taking into account periods of non-publication, we are still talking about over 100 years of product EACH. How many women of colour have made the cover between the two of them? I’m almost certain that it’s fewer than ten, definitely fewer than fifteen.
Garbage. Shameless, backwards garbage. It’s at this point that they start parroting numbers about demographics and sales and such–basically telling their caucasian readers that they’re too stupid and narrow-minded to be interested in anyone who doesn’t look exactly like Grace Kelly. No disrespect to Ms. Kelly, but it’s been almost 30 years. Is this something that you accept wholeheartedly? Or is the sight of a fair-skinned woman with miles of straight hair already too ethnic? I mean, I’d be upset if people made such huge and permanent assumptions about me…or crap, many already do.
Here’s your homework question Conde Nast: why?
You’ve got all of these fashion and celebrities blogs that don’t have the privilege of being in the inner sanctum or having the same expertise, but they’re stealing readers. Sure, it’s a hobbyist perspective, but being in the world–the actual world with actual people– is necessarily wider than the willfully myopic industry. Yeah, 900 ‘toothy’ pages…of advertisements.
It reminds of an old episode of Mad Men, in which the Pete Campbell character notices that a prospetive client does well with African-Americans. He suggests that they should market more aggressively towards blacks but the client will have none of it because they don’t want *that* kind of buyer. Not that I’m suggesting that this is an identical case (now), but if you’re going to presume to perch your bob and heels on Mount Olympus as some kind of fashion oracle, you’d better give me a reason to believe in the rightness of your place there. Just being an institution, just being a legacy, that’s not enough anymore. People have a multiplicity of voices and options that didn’t exist previously, if you don’t evolve to meet the changing needs and desire of consumers, that is your fault, not theirs. And blithely dismissing this reality as a by-product of the fashion by Wal-Mart generation, or something to that effect is:
-untrue
-lazy
-stupid
-counterproductive
And it is not just because the economic disaster that occured after September 2007 (if I remember, that was the one being documented). However famous one becomes, the publication is the institution, far more so than the person running the show. After the fact, you’re judged almost entirely on how successful you were as a steward that. Are the fashion/entertainment magazines losing numbers JUST because of the advent of up-to-the-minute internet updates, or is also a convenient excuse for an industry that is not only running into an unclothed emperor territory, but realising that the people turned their gazes away from court a long time ago?
I just read a biography about Anna Wintour, and I can´t understand what men saw in her (not counting money of course) she was never pretty or sexy.
You raise quite a lot of questions in my thoughts; you wrote a good post, but this put up can be thought upsetting, and I should think about it some extra; I shall be back soon.