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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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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.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.
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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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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'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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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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Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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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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Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
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Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.
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Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
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People need to be edited life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.
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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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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.
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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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