“No one could make people more excited about the most seemingly insignificant fashion details than him. Wintour and Talley ascending the Met Gala steps in 1999. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Vogue’s editor-at-large.
The pair became fast friends, and when Wintour was appointed editor-in-chief in 1988, Talley became the mag’s first black creative director, a position he held until 1995. Talley joined Vogue in 1983 as the glossy’s fashion news director - the same year Wintour was named its creative director. “And, not forgetting, the colleagues over the years who were consistently buoyed along by every new discovery of André’s, which he would discuss loudly, and volubly.” Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley sit front row at an Oscar de la Renta fashion show in 2007. “The loss of André is felt by so many of us today: the designers he enthusiastically cheered on every season, and who loved him for it the generations he inspired to work in the industry, seeing a figure who broke boundaries while never forgetting where he started from those who knew fashion, and Vogue, simply because of him,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief, 72, shared on Vogue’s website Wednesday.
Remembering André Leon Talley: The late Vogue legend’s most iconic quotesįollowing former Vogue editor André Leon Talley’s death on Tuesday at the age of 73, his onetime boss Anna Wintour issued a statement honoring his impact on the fashion industry at large.
