He revealed that he recently found out from"someone of authority" that the women fashion editors who worked with him there were making almost $1 million while his salary was only $300,000."They don't make that anymore, but this is what comes when you live in America, when you're a black person, you have to wake up and you know there's a double standard," he said. Tamron Hall noted that they were not able to verify those numbers at the time of the interview.
Hall also pressed Talley to be specific on what the current situation is between him and Wintour, following the less-than-flattering comments he made about her in his book"We are friendly, and we care about each other," he said.