Just over a year after André Leon Talley died at 73, his worldly possessions went up for sale through the first of a series of online auctions at Christie’s. CathyHoryn writes 📷: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
After one of the couture shows in Paris — Yves Saint Laurent, I think — I had lunch with André at the restaurant L’Avenue. We clients were all waiting for the house to get the samples back to the showroom so we could go and try them on; it was a mad dash to fit into any before Nan Kempner got them. That day, André was wearing this red alligator coat, and he was so proud of it; he kept talking to me about how “I was anxious to get over to the Saint Laurent showroom.
To me, as a Southerner, alligators are in the same genus as cockroaches. They’re pests. I said, “Alligators live in the water in the first place. What’s going to happen if it gets wet?” Remember how André used to scream? Well, he let out that scream. And he took my hand and said, “We are having coffee and dessert. We’re waiting this out.”
It took two hours. Of course, by the time I got to the showroom, all the good samples had been snapped up. He was lovely and snarky and one of the most entertaining people I’ve ever met.Green-and-white caftan, Diane von FurstenbergAndré was larger than life in everything he did, but as a houseguest he truly surpassed expectations. He’d visit us in the summers, dressed in one of his incredibly chic caftans, and instantly be a source of delight and the center of our transfixed attention.
There is an abandoned quality in this painting that I wish André had allowed himself to experience more of. There was a deep romantic inside of him that I don’t think he ever fully realized except through unrequited friendships, but maybe for André that was enough. He was a caravan of dreams, but there were always pieces missing.Stories of his grandmother were renowned, yet I didn’t know much about his mom and dad until his last book came out.
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