{"id":396540,"date":"2022-01-20T03:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elitist-fashion-industry-chewed-up-andre-leon-talley\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T03:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:31:22","slug":"elitist-fashion-industry-chewed-up-andre-leon-talley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elitist-fashion-industry-chewed-up-andre-leon-talley\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elitist fashion industry chewed up Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Elitist fashion industry chewed up Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/01\/19\/andre-leon-talley-dead-ex-vogue-editor-and-fashion-icon-was-73\/\">Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley\u2019s passing<\/a> comes the death, too, of the illusory world of high fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Only Anna Wintour, Talley\u2019s greatest frenemy, is left. When she goes, so goes the demimonde \u2014 and good riddance.<\/p>\n<p>As Tom Ford told the Financial Times in 2016: \u201cFashion is evil.\u201d Ford was once a casualty, but at least he made it out alive, now working on his own terms.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary stylist Isabella Blow, designers Alexander McQueen, L\u2019Wren Scott and Kate Spade \u2014 they weren\u2019t so lucky. All died by suicide, Blow and McQueen particularly brutalized by the industry.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard last night that Talley had died, just aged 73, my first thought was his exile from fashion surely contributed. Whatever his medical complications, he also died of a broken heart. Fashion was Talley\u2019s everything. He thought fashion was safe to love. Fashion, he thought, would never leave him.<\/p>\n<p>How wrong he was. \u201cThere\u2019ve been some very cruel and racist moments in my life in the world of fashion,\u201d Talley told the New York Times in 2018. \u201cIncidents when people were harmful and mean-spirited and terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1056595494-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Andre Leon Talley\" class=\"wp-image-20894488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1056595494-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1056595494-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1056595494-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1056595494-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In 2018, Talley was struggling financially, facing eviction and didn\u2019t have many friends to turn to. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for SCAD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet Talley could play that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, too, buying into this ugly business of beautiful people, reveling in his own role as gatekeeper. He was the outsider who became an insider, as much of a creation as anyone else in that realm: speaking with an indeterminate accent, issuing diktats and commands with the authority of a four-star <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, name-dropping and lolling about in a state of unsustainable hedonism.<\/p>\n<p>At some point along the way, Talley couldn\u2019t find the line between camp and crudity.<\/p>\n<p>Take this story from Tim Gunn, who once found Talley in a green room, \u201ca translucent barber\u2019s bib [spread] over Andr\u00e9 and he\u2019s reclining, arms at his sides. He\u2019s being fed grapes and cubes of cheese one by one, like a bird in a nest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To cite a maxim Gunn helped popularize: One day you\u2019re in . . .<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was bracing to read dispatches from Talley in exile, no longer in Anna Wintour\u2019s favor, cast out, he said, for being \u201ctoo old, too overweight, too uncool.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73470362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Andre Leon Talley and Anna Wintour\" class=\"wp-image-20894472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73470362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73470362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73470362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73470362.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley had a strange friendship \u2014 some even referred to it as one of the greatest frenemy relationships.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By 2018 he was living alone in White Plains, broke and facing eviction, dropped by nearly all his fancy friends, shocked at how reptilian and transactional that world was.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But Talley, whether he knew it or not, was also mourning something that no longer existed, a kingdom long ago democratized by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, fast fashion, reality shows and TikTok influencers.<\/p>\n<p>Talley\u2019s final indignation was learning, a few years ago, that he\u2019d been fired as Vogue\u2019s official red-carpet Met Gala interviewer, replaced by a 20-something <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> star.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s who has the currency: Not Vogue, not Wintour, but any kid with a ring-light and a following.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashion does not take care of its people,\u201d Talley said in 2018. He hoped to avoid the fate of one-time YSL muse Loulou de la Falaise, who died broke and abandoned by the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very afraid of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was right to be. Fashion has lost a true original, and for better or worse, we will never see his like again.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Only Anna Wintour, Talley\u2019s greatest frenemy, is left. When she goes, so goes the demimonde \u2014 and good riddance. 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