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Tim Gunn

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

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Tim Gunn is saying that while he was teaching at Parsons, other design teachers looked down on fashion design because they thought it was outdated or old-fashioned. They considered fashion design to belong to an earlier time, specifically the 1800s.

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