I missed the memo that Timm Gunn and Anna Wintour had a feud, and I am sorely disappointed that I am just learning about it! If you need a catch up like I did, Gunn helpfully opened up to Meredith Vierra about his non-relationship with Anna Wintour. Us Weekly reprints his remarks as follows:
"I will say when people misbehave around me I call them out for their bad behavior...I was asked by the New York Post... 'What is the most unforgettable moment you’ve ever seen in fashion?’ [I had a] very matter of fact response and it was, 'Watching Anna Wintour being carried down five flights of stairs from a fashion show.' Her office called my office the next day and demanded a retraction and I said, 'But its true, it happened.' I mean I didn’t make this up and they still demanded a retraction and I said no....Her Director of Communications said, ‘I’ll have you know Ms. Wintour knows how to work a Manolo.' I said it wasn’t a matter of not being able to go down the stairs to descend, it was a matter of speed. She had two bodyguards, who made a firemen’s lock, she sat in it. They wooshed her down these stairs and put her right into her car to get to another fashion show because this fashion show as in the fifth floor of the Metropolitan Pavilion. They had to move her fast...She’s a history revisionist, in her mind it never happened basically."
On the current state of his relationship with Anna Wintour:
"It’s hostile. May I say this, though: There is so much that happens at that unique publication that is so of another world and another planet. I’m happy to have a bad relationship with it, because I wouldn’t want to have a good one."
On another run-in with Anna Wintour:
"I was [once] on an airplane with Anna Wintour and the flight attendant came up to me and said, ‘Is that Anna Wintour?’ And I said, ‘Yes. It is. She asked, ‘Do you think I can say hello to her?’ I said, ‘Well of course. Who wouldn’t want you to greet them? That would be lovely.' She went over and this man next to Anna Wintour, she was seated at the window and he was at the aisle, rose as she rose her own hand up as a gesture of, this is now an international incident and the man said to her, ‘You have to go away, Miss.' So she wouldn’t even allow her to lean and say, ‘Ms. Wintour it’s so lovely to have you on the plane.’ I don’t understand it...May I also add [that] I have huge respect and regard for Ms. Wintour’s charitable work. It’s wonderful and my hat’s off to her but I just wish that she navigated the world with a little more respect for other people."
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