With André Leon Talley’s passing comes the death, too, of the illusory world of high fashion.
Only Anna Wintour , Talley’s greatest frenemy, is left. When …
With André Leon Talley’s passing comes the death, too, of the illusory world of high fashion. Only Anna Wintour, Talley’s greatest frenemy, is left. When she goes, so goes the demimonde — and good riddance. As Tom Ford told the Financial Times in 2016: “Fashion is evil.” Ford was once a casualty, but at least he made it out alive, now working on his own terms. Legendary stylist Isabella Blow, designers Alexander McQueen, L’Wren Scott and Kate Spade — they weren’t so lucky. All died by suicide, Blow and McQueen particularly brutalized by the industry. When I heard last night that Talley had died, just aged 73, my first thought was his exile from fashion surely contributed. Whatever his medical complications, he also died of a broken heart. Fashion was Talley’s everything. He thought fashion was safe to love. Fashion, he thought, would never leave him. How wrong he was.
