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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
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Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
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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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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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Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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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 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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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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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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People need to be edited life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.
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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.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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