{"id":47539,"date":"2022-01-19T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=47539"},"modified":"2022-01-19T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T21:26:07","slug":"the-andre-leon-talley-dictionary-of-fashion-a-guide-to-all-of-his-famous-words-sayings-and-parables","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-andre-leon-talley-dictionary-of-fashion-a-guide-to-all-of-his-famous-words-sayings-and-parables\/","title":{"rendered":"The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to All of his Famous Words, Sayings and Parables"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47587\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/alt-4.png\" alt=\"The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Andre Leon Talley. Photo by Stephen Lovekin\/WireImage for Nathan Jensen.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the fashion industry and the world over mourn the passing of the trailblazing icon, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/fashion-legend-andre-leon-talley-has-passed-at-73\/\">Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley<\/a>, we are left with his words, stories, and the many ways he made this world more colorful. The fashion and design aesthete is an immeasurable part of the global fashion industry\u2014both past and present\u2014changing the way we narrate fashion.\u00a0Much like his mentor, Diana Vreeland, Andr\u00e9 was known for his colorful vocabulary. Inventing words and phrases to emote his thoughts, telling beautifully curated stories and parables, witty anecdotes, and profound statements. As much a pop-culture figure as a staple in fashion, Andr\u00e9 cemented his place in fashion history with not only his expressive exploration of fashion but by living his life out loud. His grandiose, over-the-top rhetoric is forever minded into the fashion zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<h4>Let&#8217;s revisit some of his iconic sayings, quotes, and fashion anecdotes below:<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47548\" style=\"width: 3454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-169001614.jpg\" alt=\"The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion\" width=\"3454\" height=\"5210\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine Andre Leon Talley, circa 2000. (Photo by Rose Hartman\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Dreckitude:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Definition:<\/strong> drek, which means a wreck!<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 joined the judges&#8217; panel of America&#8217;s Next Top Model in 2010 and was known for his exuberant lexicon\u2014including the now-iconic Andr\u00e9 concocted word; &#8220;dreckitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America&#039;s Next Top Model Cycle 14 - Dreckitude\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/motXMUPQLV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Famine of beauty:<\/h3>\n<p><em>\u201cSo far, it&#8217;s been a bleak streak over here in America! You know what? It&#8217;s a famine of beauty. The famine of beauty, honey! My eyes are starving for beauty!&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u2014This is just but one of the many iconic lines from Talley&#8217;s on-screen time in &#8220;The September Issue&#8221;, the\u00a02009 Vogue insider documentary directed by R.J. Cutler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-47544 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/andre-leon-talley-beauty.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;This Man Has no money&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fashion is hard work. Gritty. It&#8217;s not glamorous.&#8221;<\/em> Quite the celebrity in his own right, Andr\u00e9 made a cameo in the 1995 fashion documentary &#8220;Catwalk&#8221; where he offered sage wisdom on the often misconceptions associated with working in fashion. You can watch the documentary for free on YouTube (Watch the whole thing because it&#8217;s required reading for any fashion lover\u2014but find Andr\u00e9&#8217;s iconic quote timestamped at 34:55).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Supermodel Catwalk 1995 - Documentary [1080p HD] |\u00a0#catwalk #documentary #chanel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KOHGUZxlTlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Paris is like Mount Olympus<\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;Milan is great. Milan is fantastic. New York is fantastic. You go to Paris for it&#8217;s like going to Mount Olympus. You just &#8212; the buttons in Paris, you know, they&#8217;ve got people who can still make buttons by hand and embroider them. That&#8217;s a big thing in fashion&#8221;<\/em>\u2014While on the Charlie Rose Show in 2003 to discuss his first autobiography, &#8220;A.L.T.: A Memoir&#8221; he spits off many beautiful anecdotes about fashion, dress, and his upbringing. Watch the interview<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/charlierose.com\/videos\/12133\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47545\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47545 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/MV5BMTY0MzMzNjcyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDM2OTU1MjE@._V1_.jpg\" alt=\"The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of IMDB.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Ok, darling? it&#8217;s about the gloves<\/h3>\n<p><i>\u201cThe world has become too casual, and people have become lazy. There was a time when people went on the plane with airplane gloves. It\u2019s about the gloves, OK darling? It\u2019s about gloves.\u201d<\/i>\u2014one of the many\u00a0iconic takeaways from an in-depth piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2013\/09\/andre-leon-talley-fashion-profile\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47550\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47550 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-73084374.jpg\" alt=\"The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PARIS &#8211; JANUARY 23: Vogue Magazine editor Andre Leon Talley arrives the &#8220;Palais of Tokyo&#8221; before the Christian Lacroix show, as part of Paris Fashion Week Spring\/Summer 2007 on January 23, 2007 in Paris, France. (Photo by Francois Durand\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>And the many, many iconic quotes&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h5><em>\u201cPeople need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em>&#8220;Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.&#8221;<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cI used to shellac my Vuitton bags on the weekends for fun.\u201d<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29107,"featured_media":47556,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,17,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to All of his Famous Words, Sayings and Parables - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the fashion industry and the world over mourn the passing of the trailblazing icon, Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley, we are left with his words, stories, and the many ways he made this world more colorful. 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