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A visionary, a trailblazer, a true aesthete, and, of course, a style icon. The legendary André Leon Talley is being remembered as all of those and more by his many friends and peers in the fashion world following the news of his passing on Tuesday at the age of 73.
"Mr. Talley was the larger-than-life, longtime creative director at Vogue during its rise to dominance as the world's fashion bible," reads a statement posted on Talley's official Instagram. "Over the past five decades as an international icon [he] was a close confidant of Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Paloma Picasso, Diane von Furstenberg, Bethann Hardison, Manolo Blahnik and he had a penchant for discovering, nurturing and celebrating young designers."
In addition to his taste-defining eye for beautiful clothing, Talley also quietly worked to literally change the face of fashion, notably encouraging designers and editorials to feature more Black models. He himself was one of the first Black editors to pave the way to the top of the masthead.
Leaving an indelible mark on the industry he helped shape, André Leon Talley's legacy will no doubt go down in the fashion history books he was so passionately and eloquently well-versed in. His presence, however, will forever be missed in the front row.
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