Quote

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

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
Little
Suggests
Elegance
Dress
Dresses
Woman
Zenith
Black
Dash
Power
Refinement
Littles
Wardrobe

More quotes by Andre Leon Talley

Image
I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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 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
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
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.
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
Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
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.
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
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
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
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
Andre Leon Talley
Image
Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
Andre Leon Talley