'I was very much in awe of André then, and I am not sure that that awe ever quite left me.' hamishbowles remembers André Leon Talley.
reputation preceded him—how could it not? A swaggering fashion oracle shaped by the legendary Diana Vreeland, for whom he worked at the Costume Institute of the Met, spraying mannequins gold for “Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design” and interpreting her cryptic injunctions , and in Warhol’s legendary Factory, and in the scrappy trenches at the Paris frontline of, and as the recipient of a Gatsby confetti of crepe de chine shirts from his intimate friend Karl Lagerfeld, and the confidences...
I was very much in awe of André then, and I am not sure that that awe ever quite left me, even after all the decades that we worked together, but it was in London that I discovered the kindness beneath the veneer, the genuine passion to truffle out talent and promote it.
André, dictating copy to Riza: “So in Capri in the 1970s, DVF and Marisa Berenson used to comb their hair on ironing boards to make it straight. They’d straighten it with ironing boards! On irons! Iron-ing. Can you pick up the phone? Right now, I want to confirm that. Put it on speaker!” André rattles off the number for Diane von Furstenberg, who duly confirms the story. “Mm hmm,” he said in response, clapping his hands thrice.
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