Andre Leon Talley

I don't know, but he looked uber ridiculous when he was playing tennis with that Louis Vouitton towel wrapped around his neck.

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.

He crashed Valentino's movie as well. But he's funny in small doses.

I threw that sh-- before I walked into the room!

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.

-- I admire celebrities who muck in & get dirt under their manicures. Charity rules!

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. :/

I see a lot of ALT bashing,.....As a person that REALLY IS in the fashion industry, many of us know EXACTLY what Andre Leon Talley does at Vouge. He is the eyes and ears of this coveted publication. Anna Wintour is a beast about firing people, if you make your self insignificant for one second in her presence, your GONE and replaced within 30 minutes. Some of the hottest trends, new hot designers from all over the world, you REALLY think Anna discovered these people,..........(have you seen how her personal style,..its atrocious!!) Andre' , Graces, and several on the vogue team are the talents that drive this magazine. Editor at Large means just that, his job is to discover what is new and hot,..what new designers are coming up on the scene internationally, what new fav locations that celebs love to frequent,etc. Anna W. is a business woman with an 'eye' for fashion and style, but she would be NO WHERE without this black man.

To further prove my point, if he was so worthless, why would this 'Iron Maiden" keep him around? because she knows that without his eye for style, taste, and exquisite pinpoint acumen concerning international pop culture, she wool be NO WHERE!. Celebs on the cover of Vogue, it is often thought that it was Anna's idea,.....WRONG ALT proposed it 2 years before, and she shot it down, he proposed it again, this tim with a fabulous shoot of a noted celeb in hand, and she said yes,..she would give it a try,..the first celeb was Gay Icon Liza Minnelli in the 1983,..the same year that ALT was hired,....( you really want to tell me that Anna thought this up?, I think not). ALT is the 'behind the scenes' backbone that makes up Vogue's influential style.
The Vogue protocol is this of those that understand how this fashion periodical works:
Andre-discovers
Grace-refines and develops
Anna- the business acumen make it all happen

They are all a team, and one should not be discounted in place of the other.