Gunn's Golden Rules

"Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work"
by Tim Gunn
4 Stars
Nonfiction: Memoir/Self Help
258 pages
Published 2010

Ellie's Review

In full disclosure, I love Project Runway and have adored Tim Gunn as the designers’ mentor.  His famous line “Make it work!” is often quoted in my house.  Gunn’s Golden Rules includes his lessons for life (part manners, part inspiration) with plenty of his personal stories that kept me hooked and laughing out loud.  Tim dishes on some PR designers along with some of the divas of fashion (for example, he suggests the devil really does wear Prada).  Some of the personal stories don’t necessarily relate to his rule for the chapter, but I didn’t mind that.  Tim’s advice is wonderful, and I loved that a New Yorker talked about being nicer to others.  All of us have something in life we can complain about, but we need to just “Make it work!” and do the best we can with whatever circumstances surround us. 

I want to be adopted as Tim's niece.  I’m only two degrees away from him, so maybe I’ll be introduced to him one of these days…. 

Book Summary
On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach.  You've watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway.  Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for "making it work" - in your career, relationships, and life.  Filled with delightfully dishy stories of fashion's greatest divas, behind-the-scenes glimpses of Runway's biggest drama queens, and never-before-revealed insights into Tim's private life, Gunn's Golden Rules is like no other how-to book you've ever read.