André Leon Talley, a former editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, speaks to a reporter at the opening of the Black Fashion Designers exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2016. Talley died on Wednesday, at 73.
For a Black fashion designer, Talley meant "everything," said Rhowan James, a menswear designer from Toronto who calls Talley a "template" for young Black professionals in the fashion industry.with Jeanne Bekker and she would always have interviews with him, always catch him on runways. And his life seemed so exciting and glamourous — all of the fashion shows and paparazzi.
"He understood the artistry of fashion, and most importantly, he understood the artists working in that arena," said Jeanne Bekker, the Canadian fashion journalist who frequently interviewed Talley on her Citytv show,. "He was incredibly nurturing to each and every one of them. Certainly the young up-and-comers, but also the very well-established designers.
"To think of where I've come from, where we've come from, in my lifetime, and where we are today, is amazing. And, yet, of course, we will have so far to go."
Canadians is pretty broad brush for someone nobody has even heard of.
RIP.
I know Andre Leon Talley because of watching Fashion Television hosted by Jeanne_Beker with my mom when I was a kid. That theme song plays in my head all the time.
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