A fashionable farewell: Stars gather to
pay tribute to late style icon Andre Leon
Talley, including Karlie Kloss, a glam
Naomi Campbell, and Anna Wintour (despite
Vogue editor dropping him from her inner
circle for being 'old, overweight, and uncool')
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Lillian Gissen
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
4/29/2022 1:12:55 PM
Many stars have gathered to pay tribute to the late style icon André Leon Talley. A memorial was held for the fashion journalist on April 29 at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, and numerous celebrities came to pay their respects, including Karlie Kloss, Naomi Campbell, and even Anna Wintour - despite the fact that their once-close friendship turned sour before his death. Talley, who worked as Vogue's editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013, railed against Wintour two years before his death,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/29/2022 1:35:09 PM (No. 1141710)
I’ve been around longer than some. Vogue under others (pre Anna Wintour, who ruined it) was a bible for those of us who sewed and tailored our own serious clothing. Pre-polyester. Talley came with the Wintour years and yes, he used his blackness to get ahead. In his own words, FTA:
He was also the first black person to hold his position at Vogue and in a 2020 interview with Essence said his 'blackness' helped shape his success.
'I never separated from my blackness,' he told the news outlet. 'My blackness is what made me.
He was a real flaming whateversexual, piled on tons of weight, and wore yards and yards of drapery material before Mooch Obama thought of it. He was a horrible snob for no good reason. Rhymed with itchy. I found him to be terminally boring, but being good to Andre seemed to give celebs brownie points because of his gayness and blackness..
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/29/2022 1:46:42 PM (No. 1141717)
I doubt that Anna Wintour will ever allow herself to become overweight, but the photos show how old and uncool she is. Her bio explains how she clawed her way up. Those who preceded her were fae more elegant and promoted far better fashion. IMO, Vogue has been toast for a long, long time.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
marbles 4/29/2022 1:55:16 PM (No. 1141728)
How bad is Vogue ? You can easily get a free subscription.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
vrb8m 4/29/2022 2:04:48 PM (No. 1141737)
Off topic, but does Gayle King not own a full-length mirror?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 4/29/2022 2:08:50 PM (No. 1141739)
As to Mr Tally's alleging to have been "stoned" by a group of Duke students when he tried to cross the campus to find a copy of Vogue back in his salad days, if you look at a satellite view of Duke in relation to any Durham business district, you will see there would be no reason to cross the campus to get to a magazine store or newstand, neither now nor back in the Sixties when he lived there. Having said that, was racism and the KKK alive and well in Durham back then? Hell yeah, Bubba, it was terrible.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/29/2022 2:24:20 PM (No. 1141744)
What a freakshow. Funny thing, those damaged people are sure we're the people who don't matter.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/29/2022 2:37:51 PM (No. 1141753)
So much botox in their faces (if they smile their faces would crack) but not one thought to those saggy baggy knees. Like hands, knees almost always tell age. There comes a time when slacks or a below the knee skirt is advised.
Martha Stewart looks like she is checking in for outpatient surgery not attending a memorial service.
I have always thought Wintour was one of the most ridiculous looking women in her giant blackout glasses and that silly outdated haircut. For someone on the cusp of fashion, she hasn't changed one thing about her personal fashion in 30 years. And maybe that mop she calls hair is actually a wig.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 4/29/2022 2:56:46 PM (No. 1141770)
I remember years ago, when I was a young girl. The carnival came to our small town for a few days. My friends and I were beyond excited to go and enjoy it together. The excitement of rides & games, etc., bathed in its neon colored atmosphere lived up to all of our expectations. But, the next day’s trip to the fairgrounds, in the bright sunshine, showed all of the reality and tawdriness that had seemed so glamorous beneath the neon of the previous evening.
I thought about that when I saw the pictures of these supposed icons attending the funeral in this story. Really kinda sad, and empty, in so many ways. I wish that I could believe that one soul, who attended that service, heard anything relevant to the actual realties of eternity and/or that it made a difference in their lives. Sadly, I truly doubt it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PageTurner 4/29/2022 3:19:43 PM (No. 1141785)
Is he the one who put Kamala Harris on the cover wearing tennis shoes, instead of the blue suit she insisted on? And who put the 'goddess' glamor shot of hagulous Jill Biden on the cover after that?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/29/2022 3:55:15 PM (No. 1141810)
since when is this "news"?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
garyhope 4/29/2022 4:56:30 PM (No. 1141852)
Some of the most ridiculous, useless and narcissistic people on the planet. Deluded with a very misguided sense of their own self importance.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
slsusnr 4/29/2022 5:24:54 PM (No. 1141863)
I'll echo poster #10. How do any of these mostly mentally ill and deviant creatures effect the average Joe or Jane at all? If anyone is so into "fashion" that they read Vogue, they need to get a life. There are far more serious things going on in our world, e.g., raging inflation, a senile president, and worst of all, millions of people who would still vote democratic like robots.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 4/29/2022 5:33:56 PM (No. 1141867)
I'll take my chances with a den of vipers before I trust any of these freaks.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/29/2022 6:28:17 PM (No. 1141907)
I used to live in Germany and my German was shaky. When I first arrived I was mostly unintelligible. The pictures in this article reminded me of that. If fashion is a statement, here is what I understood to be said, “Today I feel like being an African albino ostrich wearing a satellite dish”, “woman with faux hairy chest with man who dressed out of the dirty clothes hamper at night with the lights off,” “I’m a belted used Q-tip dominatrix complete with ear wax-colored wig accompanied by my son who I dressed in a mask because he’s no looker but he does stuff his pants”. Perhaps these people are trying to speak a language THEY don’t understand.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
coldborezero 4/29/2022 6:49:06 PM (No. 1141917)
I am at a loss. What ARE these...these...these...THINGS depicted in the photographs accompanying this article? Surely, they are not from this solar system. They seem to be weird simply for the sake of being weird.
Meh.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pensom2 4/30/2022 1:53:40 AM (No. 1142149)
Ghouls.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/30/2022 3:50:41 AM (No. 1142180)
Okay, God took two seconds to laugh.
"God laughs at the wicked and has them in derision."
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I read Tally's book. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, and very good taste. He was far nicer to Anna Wintour than she deserved, considering how she treated (and used) him.