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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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Washington
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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.
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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
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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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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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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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I think it's important that models be healthy.
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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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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
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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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Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
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I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.
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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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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
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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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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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