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André Leon Talley

André Leon Talley Confirms Return to ANTM Cycle 15, Reveals Plans For a One-Man Broadway Show
Vogue

André Leon Talley Confirms Return to ANTM Cycle 15, Reveals Plans For a One-Man Broadway Show

André Leon Talley was at the Fashion Institute of Technology last night to talk with Valerie Steele as part of the The Museum at FIT's Fashion Culture series.
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André Leon Talley was at the Fashion Institute of Technology last night to talk with Valerie Steele as part of the The Museum at FIT's Fashion Culture series. A crowd of more than 300 stood in long lines and were require to pass through metal detectors, which were on site due to the presence of PETA activists. To the audience of fans and fashion-lovers, Talley did not disappoint. He had the crowd laughing out loud for most of the talk.

Peppered between stories of his days assisting Diana Vreelend while she organized the Met's Costume Institute ("I treated her office like walking into the Vatican") to his days working in Andy Warhol's Factory as Interview's receptionist ("I answered phones and picked up Mr. Warhol's lunch), Talley shared plans to return to America's Next Top Model. Calling Tyra Banks, "a fabulous business woman," the Vogue contributor explained he coined the word 'drekitude' while watching Rachel Maddow repeat 'quackitude' on her MSNBC show and thinking of the German word for garbage, drek. As for next season, Talley promises there will be a new 'tude in his arsenal.

As an only child from a modest family in Durham, North Carolina, Talley is quick to admit he owes much of his success to the help and encouragement of more-established members of the fashion community, but is just as fast to add, "I've slept in many designers' beds, but never with a designer—male or female." Talley is in return committed to helping out the younger generation, calling attention throughout the talk to new designers in the audience and one in particular. The crystallized NAACP tee shirt he wore under his white Chado Ralph Rucci cape to the Met earlier this week was designed by a man he found selling Obama hats out of the trunk of his car in Harlem. He bought 48.

In terms of future plans, the editor and now television star would like to hit the Broadway (or off-Broaway) stage and says he has been working for years on a one-man show. We're certain his adoring fans (including us) will be happy to fill those seats.

Andre Leon Talley

>> Documentary in the Works on Stylist and Fashion Editor Polly Mellen —The wealth of recent fashion documentaries continues to grow — Bill Cunningham New York, a project ten years in the making on the original street style photographer just premiered recently in New York, and at the end of this month Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston, a documentary look at Halston (and whose director looked to Andre Leon Talley for guidance on who to interview and what to research) will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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>> Documentary in the Works on Stylist and Fashion Editor Polly Mellen —The wealth of recent fashion documentaries continues to grow — Bill Cunningham New York, a project ten years in the making on the original street style photographer just premiered recently in New York, and at the end of this month Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston, a documentary look at Halston (and whose director looked to Andre Leon Talley for guidance on who to interview and what to research) will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. And it doesn't stop there: last night at the WFIT Elle panel, in talking about his first job assisting Polly Mellen (who worked for 28 years as a fashion editor at Vogue and eight years as creative director at Allure) Joe Zee revealed that he was interviewed this week for a forthcoming documentary on Mellen.

Proenza Schouler

>> Proenza Schouler, Andre Leon Talley, and Elle's Robbie Myers All to Appear on The Martha Stewart Show —Starting tomorrow, The Martha Stewart Show is having a three day run of fashion fixtures.
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>> Proenza Schouler, Andre Leon Talley, and Elle's Robbie Myers All to Appear on The Martha Stewart Show —Starting tomorrow, The Martha Stewart Show is having a three day run of fashion fixtures. First, on Tuesday, April 6, Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez will be live on the show for a tie-dye scarf how-to; then, that afternoon, Andre Leon Talley will be in studio to chat about America's Next Top Model and make brioche with deviled eggs — for an episode airing Friday, April 30. And finally, on Wednesday, April 7, Elle editor-in-chief Robbie Myers will be live on the show for a "Designers to Watch" segment.

Chanel

>> Confirmed: Karl Lagerfeld in New York to Shoot Fall 2010 Fendi, Chanel Ads —Yesterday, Karl Lagerfeld was spotted shooting Freja Beha Erichsen and Abbey Lee Kershaw in Chanel around New York's SoHo and Lower East Side neighborhoods; today, Andre Leon Talley confirms that Lagerfeld is in New York to shoot both the Fall 2010 Chanel and Fendi campaigns.
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>> Confirmed: Karl Lagerfeld in New York to Shoot Fall 2010 Fendi, Chanel Ads —Yesterday, Karl Lagerfeld was spotted shooting Freja Beha Erichsen and Abbey Lee Kershaw in Chanel around New York's SoHo and Lower East Side neighborhoods; today, Andre Leon Talley confirms that Lagerfeld is in New York to shoot both the Fall 2010 Chanel and Fendi campaigns. Apparently, Karl is also already at work on his next short film, which will debut along with the Chanel Cruise 2011 collection in St. Tropez in May. [Vogue, ajchen.com]

W Editor-in-Chief Announcement Expected Shortly; Andre Leon Talley's New Vogue Title
Vogue

W Editor-in-Chief Announcement Expected Shortly; Andre Leon Talley's New Vogue Title

>> Stefano Tonchi seems to have emerged as the frontrunner for the W editor-in-chief position — one "highly placed source" at The New York Times confirmed to WWD that Tonchi had been speaking with Conde Nast, but had not made a decision regarding the W job as of Friday.
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>> Stefano Tonchi seems to have emerged as the frontrunner for the W editor-in-chief position — one "highly placed source" at The New York Times confirmed to WWD that Tonchi had been speaking with Conde Nast, but had not made a decision regarding the W job as of Friday. Over at Conde Nast, several sources told WWD that Tonchi had already signed a deal, but the official word from a Conde spokeswoman is that a decision had not yet been made, although there “will be an announcement possibly early next [this] week.”

Meanwhile, over the weekend, Bryanboy noticed that Andre Leon Talley was moved from editor-at-large to contributing editor on the April 2010 Vogue masthead. The move could have to do with his new position as America's Next Top Model judge, and Fashionista noted that during New York Fashion Week, ALT kept a distance "from the rest of the Vogue team–we didn’t spot him with the rest of the editorial staff even once, and on the last day of the week he attended one Ralph Lauren show while the rest of the Vogue-ettes attended another . . . His pages, however, three on general goings on about town or it-girls of the moment, remain the same." Racked cites sources saying that Grace Coddington and Hamish Bowles, too, may be "experiencing changes" in upcoming months.

UPDATE: A Vogue spokesman notes of the change: "There’s no more to the story than a title change," adding, "That’s just because he wanted to do more freelance projects . . . He’ll be just as big a presence at Vogue." Talley's column and blog are expected to remain intact. [The Cut]

Video: Andre Leon Talley Makes Debut on America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model

Video: Andre Leon Talley Makes Debut on America's Next Top Model

>> Andre Leon Talley made his judging debut last night on America's Next Top Model in a purple cape — no doubt custom-made by Ralph Rucci — and paraded out words like "dreckitude" and "etonne" — both of which he had to explain to Tyra Banks — in the process.
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>> Andre Leon Talley made his judging debut last night on America's Next Top Model in a purple cape — no doubt custom-made by Ralph Rucci — and paraded out words like "dreckitude" and "etonne" — both of which he had to explain to Tyra Banks — in the process. Both Gawker and The Cut hailed his appearance as "the best part of the show," particularly when he brought down judgments on the model contestants' photographs like: “This would definitely hit the reject floor at Vogue. Slap! Next!” He Tweeted last night of his appearance: "I must say, I was wild about the debut. Simply wild."

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Diane Von Furstenberg

>> Andre Leon Talley Is Now on Twitter —Just last week at a Barnes & Noble-hosted panel, Andre Leon Talley said he didn't Twitter; when told there was an account in his name, he replied, "Please!
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>> Andre Leon Talley Is Now on Twitter —Just last week at a Barnes & Noble-hosted panel, Andre Leon Talley said he didn't Twitter; when told there was an account in his name, he replied, "Please! It’s fraudulent, it’s fraudulent! It’s fake, it’s bogus.”  It seems that the discussion prompted him to join the social network today, a move announced by Diane von Furstenberg.  His inaugural Tweet? "At Diane von Furstenberg's looking at clothes from the last 4 years for a retrospective show in Sao Paulo, Brazil." [@InsideDVF, @InsideDVF, @OfficialALT]

Andre Leon Talley in Exclusive Clip From September Issue

André Leon Talley in September Issue Exclusive Clip

The September Issue with Anna Wintour is coming out on DVD filled with never-before-seen footage of the inner workings of Vogue magazine.
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The September Issue with Anna Wintour is coming out on DVD filled with never-before-seen footage of the inner workings of Vogue magazine. FabTV has an exclusive clip of André Leon Talley, editor-in-chief, going crazy over a huge surprise.

Marc Jacobs on Fall 2010: "It's Not About Fashion, It's About Style"
Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs on Fall 2010: "It's Not About Fashion, It's About Style"

>> At 7:56 pm EST this evening, a booming male voice came over the loudspeakers at the Armory in New York, asking everyone to take their seats, the Marc Jacobs show was about to start.
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>> At 7:56 pm EST this evening, a booming male voice came over the loudspeakers at the Armory in New York, asking everyone to take their seats, the Marc Jacobs show was about to start. Meanwhile, the rest of the audience, via live.marcjacobs.com, had already taken their seats at home and were watching. The lights went down in the space, covered floor, wall, and ceiling with corrogated cardboard.  Then, a spotlight appeared on Marc as he and Robert Duffy walked across the room to tear down a floor to ceiling segment of brown paper, revealing all the models, standing in a giant wooden crate, behind.

Tatiana Cotliar opened the pared-back, neutral-dominated collection to the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" soundtrack, which featured a mix of three different renditions of the song.  The 56-look collection was modeled by a cast who exited the box one at a time and included Marc by Marc Jacobs stylists Camille Bidault-Waddington and Suzanne Deeken, plus two girls who were pulled off the street; Jamie Bochert closed.

There was no finale procession, just Marc taking a bow in a Bottega Veneta suit; it really seems like Marc is ready for his show to be about the clothes again, something Robert Duffy suggested recently: no celebrities front row (just Crystal Renn — Andre Leon Talley was even left standing after coming late), a one song soundtrack, a brown paper set, very few recognizable models. Even the after-party is staff-only this year. "It's not about fashion, it's about style. That's why we used 'real' girls," he said post-show.

And people seem to be responding. "Beautiful show, wistful. Fab coats with glossy, shaggy fur. A-line skirts," Cathy Horyn remarked.  Paper's Kim Hastreiter wrote: "Marc Jacobs show was the most beautiful of his career IMO."

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Thakoon Fall 2010: Feral and Furry
New York Fashion Week

Thakoon Fall 2010: Feral and Furry

>> It wouldn't be Fashion Week if everyone wasn't flying by the seat of their pants.  Imogen Morris-Clarke, who walked Thakoon yesterday, Tweeted post-show: "Hanne [Gaby Odiele] was in [her] own clothes as the show began!!!
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Thakoon Fall 2010: Feral and Furry

>> It wouldn't be Fashion Week if everyone wasn't flying by the seat of their pants.  Imogen Morris-Clarke, who walked Thakoon yesterday, Tweeted post-show: "Hanne [Gaby Odiele] was in [her] own clothes as the show began!!! manic."

The pre-show panic wasn't felt in the show's audience, however, where Andre Leon Talley was wearing a sweater with big fuzzy dollar sign on the back paired with a furry scarf and Grace Coddington took her time chatting with fellow front rowers before taking her seat. As the lights went down, the music took on the pervasive pounding of a heartbeat, and the models emerged from a cavernous opening, framed by two oversized shapes which curled over their heads and softly glowed. They stopped in their tracks to pose in front of the photographers before carrying on down the runway.

Panichgul says the collection, with its fur-lined hoods, handkerchief hems, shearling boots, and pom pom fringe, was inspired by the image of a half-shaven sheep. "It captured everything that I wanted in my collection,” he explained. “It was raw, primitive and soft all at once.”  The perfect embodiment of the inspiration: a tiger-print dress, the bottom half all tiger-striped fur.

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