• THE WASHINGTON POST

André Leon Talley became an icon by never losing faith in the glory of fashion

The fashion editor André Leon Talley achieved rarefied status in an industry that he had to bend to his will. When he arrived in New York in the early ’70s with his degrees in French history and literature, he was a tall, skinny Black man from the segregated South who barreled through the gilded doors…

  • THE NEW YORK TIMES

Farewell, André Leon Talley

André glided around the globe like a French king, swathing himself in glittering caftans and sable coats custom-made…