NEW YORK, Jan 19 — Influential fashion journalist Andre Leon Talley, the first Black creative director of Vogue, died yesterday in New York at the age of 73, with figures from fashion and entertainment paying tribute.
“It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Andre Leon Talley,” a statement posted on his official Instagram account said, without specifying the cause of death. “Mr Talley was the larger-than-life, longtime creative director at Vogue during its rise to dominance as the world’s fashion bible.
“Over the past five decades as an international icon was a close confidant of Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Paloma Picasso, Diane von Furstenberg and he had a penchant for discovering, nurturing and celebrating young designers.” Born in Washington in 1948, Talley was largely raised by his grandmother in Durham, North Carolina and was interested in fashion from an early age.Vogue“I was allowed to retreat from the bullying and the sexual abuse into a beautiful world,” he toldTalley studied French at university, going on to earn a master’s at prestigious Brown University and then entered the world of fashion journalism.
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