Quote

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Andre Leon Talley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
Take
Athleticism
Couture
Risks
Risk

More quotes by Andre Leon Talley

Image
I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I think it's important that models be healthy.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
Andre Leon Talley