Quotes by Andre Leon Talley

About Andre Leon Talley:

André Leon Talley is the former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine, listed as Contributing Editor in the April 2010 masthead. Talley has been a front-row regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for more than 25 years. He uses his influence to promote young fashion designers and mentors young talent in other fields.
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People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Andre Leon Talley

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

Andre Leon Talley

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

Andre Leon Talley

I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down for four hours. I think it's the most wonderful thing to be able ...

Andre Leon Talley

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Andre Leon Talley

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

Andre Leon Talley

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

Andre Leon Talley

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

Andre Leon Talley

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

Andre Leon Talley

There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

Andre Leon Talley

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

Andre Leon Talley

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St....

Andre Leon Talley

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Andre Leon Talley

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

Andre Leon Talley

Uggs are comfort shoes, and it's important to have a shoe that gives you a sense of comfort. I have about 15 pair of Uggs - the same shoe, the same color. And I also have the bedroom slippers.

Andre Leon Talley

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Andre Leon Talley

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

Andre Leon Talley

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Leon Talley

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley

Author Bio

  • NameAndre Leon Talley
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornOctober 16, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Autobiographer