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Breaking News Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has died at 73

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André Leon Talley, the hugely influential fashion journalist and flamboyant former editor-at-large of U.S. Vogue, has died. He was 73.

TMZ reports that Talley passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, New York, following an unspecified illness.

A towering figure in fashion, both literally given he was 6-foot-6 and figuratively due to a career that spanned six decades, Talley wrote about fashion at a number of publications including Women’s Wear Daily, W and even a brief stint at the New York Times, but it is American Vogue that he is indelibly associated with, serving variously as the magazine’s news director, creative director and as well as editor-at-large working closely with EIC Anna Wintour.








 
R.I.P.


Also, fuck that bitch at Vogue for stripping him of his position.


And fuck Billy Bush for saying he was intimidating.


No one ever classified him as that.


From all accounts, he was a gentle giant and a kind soul.


But it had to be the white guy to call him intimidating just because he's a large black man.




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R.I.P.


Also, fuck that bitch at Vogue for stripping him of his position.


And fuck Billy Bush for saying he was intimidating.


No one ever classified him as that.


From all accounts, he was a gentle giant and a kind soul.


But it had to be the white guy to call him intimidating just because he's a large black man.




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The fashion industry as a whole has always been deep in racism.

A lot of these wyte folks mad how we changed the fashion culture. How we rejected THEIR standards if what fashion is.

Imagine the push back ALT got for being the main influential figure in having more black models on runways.
 
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