Andre Leon Talley
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mag900-1 — 16 years ago(February 26, 2010 01:06 PM)
i enjoyed the scene where he was playing tennis and was hitting the back fence on the fly with the ball. it reminded me of the scene in bachelor party where tom hanks was drilling tennis balls over the fence and into the neighbor's yard.
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DogtownGirl — 16 years ago(February 27, 2010 07:37 PM)
In this particular film, Andre came across poorly and as being merely being Wintour's complete "Yes Man" and sycophant which I thought was sad.
But yes, Leon Talley is a rather flamboyant fellow, off camera, and he has a real following among fashionistas and others in the clothes-know, so I wouldn't make short shrift of him, quite yet.
I don't care for the amount of MINK that he wears, myself.
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xboxfreak52591 — 16 years ago(March 02, 2010 11:59 PM)
He is an editor-at-large. For those of you that don't know what those do:
"An Editor-at-Large is a journalist who contributes content to a publication.
Unlike an editor who works on a publication from day-to-day and is hands on, an editor-at-large will contribute content on a regular or semi-regular basis and will have less of a say on a specific field such as layout, pictures or the publications direction.
However, unlike a writer they are allowed their own preferences in the content they have to generate and dont have to pitch their ideas to the main editor. They also frequently come up with ideas for other writers to research and write."At large" means the editor has no specific assignments, but rather works on whatever interests them."
Basically he can write whenever and if ever he feels and he is ridiculously over payed. I can see why people love him and why people hate him. He's a fun person but he thinks he has the absolute best style (he doesn't, God how gaudy is he? NOT in the good way haha) and stuff like that. -
DogtownGirl — 16 years ago(March 03, 2010 10:04 AM)
Thanks, xboxfreak! I hadn't know of the exact nature of his job at VOGUE, before. Now, I do.
Talley's gaudy as all get-out You're correct.
And speaking of being ridic overly-paid just HOW MUCH moulah does he make per year? You can send this response to me in a PM here, if you care to do so. No need to make money matters public, in my opinion
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Catdubh — 14 years ago(June 05, 2011 11:51 PM)
Thank you, very much for your reply. I too can see why Andre' is loved and hated.
He's fabulously fun, while annoying, as one other person put it in their reply, he's ok in small doses.
I personally love Andre' Leon Talley but can't stand his taste in clothes but also believe he's perfect for an Editor at Large, and a stereotypical icon in the fashion world. Vogue would not be Vogue, without Andre'. And you're probably right, he likely is grossly over-paid.
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dyer9380 — 16 years ago(March 27, 2010 11:39 PM)
Andre Leon Talley is specifically what he appears to be; an outside voice of fashion. And he's exactly what he should be in this film. If the fashion world was all Anna Wintour, we'd all be subjected to skinny little dresses and stick people. If they were all Grace Coddington, the fashion would take a backseat to historical reproduction. He's the outsize personality of fashion that says "Fringe is fabulous," and a very thin sliver of Vogue readers - the outrageous people or the unusual people - will adopt this 'craze' - and inject that anti-fashion energy back into the system. In scientific terms, he's the chaos theory.
But he's also a big boring bump on a log in this flick.