In My Library: Tim Gunn

Even the dean of "Project Runway" sometimes has doubts about what to wear.

"I recently saw a pair of waxed black jeans that looked like leather, and I asked the salesperson if I were too old to wear them," Tim Gunn tells The Post. "He looked me up and down and said, 'Yes.' I put them down right away and walked out of the store."

Generally speaking, says the Upper West Sider — who took his fashion cues from ex-boss Diana Vreeland — whenever he's in doubt he asks himself, What would Cary Grant wear? "It doesn't necessarily mean I follow it, but I do ask myself that," says Gunn, whose new book is "The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!"

Here's what's in this fashion guru's library:

Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood

I bought this in 1976, when it came out. My fondness and appreciation for Isherwood goes back to discovering my sexuality: There were so few positive role models for gay men when I was growing up. This is a memoir about his own self-discovery from 1929, when he arrived in Berlin from England, to 1939, when he came to New York. Fascinating!

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

This novel addresses the upper classes of England between wars. It's been branded as satire, but I don't know how satirical it really is. It takes a lot of stereotypes and blows them up: the illicit affairs, the laconic husband who doesn't care that his wife is having an affair while he goes off to the jungle. It's a period piece.

Adam's Navel by Michael Sims

I've recommended this book to dozens of people. It [discusses] our body, piece by piece, and talks about it primarily sociologically. A lot of it's fashion-related, because the body's erogenous zones change according to the culture and the time. A glimpse of ankle in Victorian times was so sexually charged!

D.V. by Diana Vreeland

This is her life, though after it was published, she was asked if it were fact or fiction."It's fac-tion," she said. Wild Bill Cody taught her to ride a horse? It may not be plausible, but it's entertaining. Her personal style was such that you believed her and how she navigated the world. This was the model for how I wanted "Gunn's Golden Rules" to read.

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