By clothing-bag, 27/09/2022

André Leon Talley, First African -American Creative Director of Vogue

In himself, André Leon Talley, first African -American Creative Director of Vogue, was a show.Wherever I was appropriated the cameras.

His exuberance deployment even eclipsed ManolSpanish designer.

Impossible to go unnoticed with his body of two meters, his bright grana caftan and his multiple beads.

"Fashion is part of who I am.I get up and approach life with my own aesthetics, ”he said once."Wearing clothes must be a personal narrative of emotion and I always respond to fashion by an emotional way," he added.

This is how André Leon Talley lived, who died on Tuesday at age 73 in a hospital in New York, as spread this Wednesday, without specifying the causes of his death, although among his friends he knew his fight due to his bad health.

André Leon Talley, primer director creativo afroamericano de Vogue

He was known as The Only One, the only one, and not only for his stamp and his histrionism.He treasured an encyclopedic knowledge about fashion in which he broke all molds.In a world dominated by the whites, Talley became a reference for which he felt devotion even Anna Wintour, the great boss of Vogue.

They cultivated a great friendship, which was clouded when in 2020 he published his memoirs, The Chiffon Trenches, where he accused the great lady of having abandoned and having squeezed her juice as if she were a parasite inside.

Months later, however, Talley defended Wintour from the accusations of racism poured against her.

Among many reminders, there was one that highlighted.“It is in the loss of André as colleague, as a friend, what I think now.He is immeasurable, ”Wintour wrote in a statement published by his magazine.

“It was magnificent and scholarly funny, volatile too...There were complicated moments in our relationship, but what I want to remember is the bright, compassionate, generous man ”.

Talley was surrounded by glamor's life, since its inception as a receptionist from Interview magazine under the command of Andy Warhol.He rubbed.Openly homosexual, lived only in the New York neighborhood of Harlem, without a romantic existence.

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