From Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 17, Christie’s is presenting a tour and a series of live and online auctions of the collection of larger-than-life, Greenburgh/White Plains-based fashion editor André Leon Talley, the first Black man to hold the title creative director of American Vogue. Talley, whose sweeping, dramatic style belied a gracious manner with […]
André Leon Talley, (born October 16, 1948, Washington, D.C., U.S. died January 18, 2022, White Plains, New York), influential fashion editor who grew up in the segregated South and rose through the historically white ranks of his industry to become the first Black person to serve as creative director (1988–95) of American Vogue through his savvy and belief in the power of fashion. Born in Washington, D.C., Talley was raised from infancy by his grandmother Bennie Frances Davis in Durham, North Carolina. She was a cleaning woman at Duke University, who rooted her grandson in the power of faith and the
Durham, North Carolina is known for a lot of things City of Medicine, tobacco warehouses, basketball on both sides of the track.It's also known for 'big, bad' André Leon Talley the famed Vogue magazine editor known in inner circles as the “pharaoh of fabulosity.”