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

Andre Leon Talley

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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Andre Leon Talley
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Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
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I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.
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I think it's important that models be healthy.
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I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.
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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 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 suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
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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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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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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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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.
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I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
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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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I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.
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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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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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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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I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
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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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Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
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