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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.
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You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
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Some days are good some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.
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Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of War and Peace is universal.
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Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
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I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
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I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.
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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
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Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
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People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.
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It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
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I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.
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I think it's important that models be healthy.
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