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• ANDRé LEON TALLEY DIDN’T LIKE THE LABEL ‘GAY’ AND NEVER HAD A HBAND
• WHO WAS ANDRE LEON TALLEY PARTNER, WIFE, GAY, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN & MORE
• ANDRé LEON TALLEY ON HIS FASHN CAREER, HIS WEIGHT STGGLE, AND HIS SEXUAL PASTBY VANY FAIRAUGT 7, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE INIC FASHN EDOR TELLS VANY FAIR NTRIBUTG EDOR VANSA GRIGORIADIS THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE THAT “THE WORLD HAS BEE TOO SUAL, AND PEOPLE HAVE BEE LAZY. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WENT ON THE AIRPLANE WH GLOV.” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS ABOUT THE GLOV WORN BY SUCH LADI AS KERRY WASHGTON, MICHELLE OBAMA, BEYONCé, JACKIE O, AND HIS IENDS PLE ROTHSCHILD AND GLORIA VON THURN UND TAXIS: “IT’S ABOUT GLOV, O.K., DARLG? IT’S ABOUT GLOV. LISTEN.”TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS OF HIS CHILDHOOD DURHAM, NORTH CAROLA, WHERE HE WAS RAISED BY HIS GRANDMOTHER THE 1950S AND 1960S. BULLIED HIS BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD, TALLEY FOUND SOLACE THE FASHN MAGAZ, CLUDG VOGUE, WHICH HE BOUGHT ON THE DE UNIVERSY MP, AND READG JOHN FAIRCHILD’S MEMOIR OF UTURE, THE FASHNABLE SAVAG, SO MANY TIM HE “PRACTILLY MEMORIZED .”WHEN GRIGORIADIS ASKS TALLEY IF HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY, EVEN HIGH SCHOOL, HE RPONDS, “NO, NO, NO. I WAS JT TO MY MAGAZ AND THE DRAWGS. I HAD A VERY STRICT UPBRGG, ALMOST PURANIL. I LIVED THERE ALL THE WAY THROUGH LLEGE. I WAS MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOE, AND I RPECTED THAT!” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE REJECTS THE “LABEL” AND SAYS THAT, WHILE HE HAS “HAD VERY GAY EXPERIENC, Y, I SWEAR ON MY GRANDMOTHER’S GRAVE THAT I NEVER SLEPT WH A SGLE SIGNER MY LIFE. NEVER, EVER SIRED, NEVER WAS ASKED, NEVER WAS APPROACHED, NEVER, EVER BOUGHT, MY ENTIRE REER. NEVER. NOT ONE. SKNY OR FAT. NEVER.”TALLEY ALSO TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE HAS NEVER BEEN LOVE WH A MAN—ONLY TWO WOMEN: ONE A FELLOW STUNT PROVINCE, THE OTHER A SOCIETY WOMAN WH WHOM HE FELL LOVE AFTER A NIGHT OF DANCG MANHATTAN AND WHOSE NAME HE CL TO SHARE BEE SHE LATER MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN. ON BEG SGLE, TALLEY SAYS, “I JT SAID TO A IEND, ‘I N CREATE THIS MAGIC, SO WHY DON’T I HAVE A LOVER?’” BUT, HE TELLS GRIGORIADIS, “IF I WAS A UPLE, I WOULDN’T LIKE TO STAY THE SAME BEDROOM. IT IS VERY UN-CHIC EUROPE TO SLEEP THE SAME BEDROOM.”OF HIS CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH ANNA WTOUR, HIS FORMER BOSS AT VOGUE, TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS, “I WOULDN’T HAVE STAYED AT VOGUE AS LONG AS I DID WHOUT ANNA BEG THERE. SHE WAS MY BIGGT ALLY. THERE ULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY.”TALLEY SAYS HE’S NEVER SEEN WTOUR WH A HAIR OUT OF PLACE: “MS. WTOUR HAS HAD HER BOB SCE SHE WAS HER 20S. I HAVE NEVER SEEN HER HAIR PULLED BACK. NEVER. NOT EVEN AT TENNIS.” A LLEAGUE OF TALLEY’S POTS OUT THAT “ANNA AND ANDRé ARE BT BUDDI . . . THIS IS THE ONLY MAN WHO ULD SEE ANNA HER UNRWEAR.”GRIGORIADIS REPORTS ON TALLEY’S LONGTIME STGGLE WH HIS WEIGHT. “I DO NOT WEIGH MYSELF,” TALLEY CLAIMS. “I DO NOT WANT TO GET ON THAT SLE. I ONLY KNOW WHAT I WEIGH OM THE WAY MY CLOTH F.” HE REVEALS THAT HE HAD A LAP BAND THAT HAS NOT WORKED; HE KEEPS EATG EVEN WH . “THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY CLOSE TO ME AND KNOW ME HAVE STOPPED BRGG MY WEIGHT UP,” HE SAYS. “THEY PROBABLY DISCS BEHD MY BACK, SOME OF THEM, THE FASHN WORLD.” BUT HIS WEIGHT HAS NEVER AFFECTED HIS SELF-TEEM. “I HAVE NEVER FELT LS OF A PERSON BEE OF MY DRAMATIC WEIGHT GA,” TALLEY SAYS. “UP OR DOWN, MY NFINCE AND SENSE OF SELF NEVER WAVERED.” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE IS “UALLY ALWAYS RIGHT” ABOUT CLOTH AND OTHER TOPICS, THOUGH AT ONE POT HE ADDS, “EXCEPT ABOUT MYSELF.”TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE SOMETIM WONRS WHY HE’S NEVER BEEN THE EDOR OF A MAJOR MAGAZE, AND THAT RACE MAY PLAY A FACTOR. “PEOPLE STEREOTYPE YOU,” HE SAYS. “WHAT PERSON OF LOR DO YOU KNOW WHO’S A POSN LIKE THAT, BE A MAN OR A WOMAN, UNLS ’S ESSENCE MAGAZE?”TALLEY, WHO LIV WHE PLAS, NEW YORK, 30 NORTH OF MANHATTAN, TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE SPENDS HIS EVENGS WATCHG A LOT OF MSNBC: “FIVE O’CLOCK IS CHRIS MATTHEWS; SIX O’CLOCK IS REVEREND AL SHARPTON. THEN I WA FOR RACHEL AND LAWRENCE. AND I’LL PROBABLY LOOK AT JUDGE JUDY. I WISH SHE WERE MY IEND.”NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST MREEN DOWD LLS TALLEY A “FASHN SNIPER,” AND SCRIB HER RELATNSHIP WH HIM AS A “CULTURAL LLISN. HE IS HIGH-FASHN AND I’M NO-FASHN.” TALLEY STAYED WH DOWD DURG THE LAST PRINTIAL GURATN, AND DOWD TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT TALLEY STOPPED HER AT THE DOOR: “ARMS FOLD STUBBORNLY, HE TOLD ME I ULD NOT GO OUT LOOKG LIKE ‘A ROAD-SHOW RA HAYWORTH,’ AND SAID I HAD TO EHER IRON THE DRS OR CHANGE. I CHANGED. HE ROLLED HIS EY WHEN I WORE SOME [STYLISH] DARK-GREEN BOOTI WH A BLACK DRS TO A RECEPTN WH THE OBAMAS, NOTG THAT BOOTI WERE FOR GOG TO STARBUCKS, NOT THE WHE HOE. WHEN WE WENT TO [A] MET OPENG I WORE A LONG DRS A IEND HAD GIVEN ME THAT SHE FOUND ON EBAY, A REEM ACRA MERMAIDY-LOOKG SEAFOAM-LORED DRS. I FELT VERY ETHEREAL UNTIL ANDRé TOOK ONE LOOK, PICKED UP A B OF THE SKIRT, AND MURMURED OMOLY, ‘TULLE. BLANCHE DUBOIS.’”CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE AND RECEIVE THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE WHILE STILL ON NEWSSTANDS.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: IMPEACH BIN NOW OR I'LL SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENTBY ERIC LUTZJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANVANY FAIR
• FASHN IN ANDRé LEON TALLEY REFLECTS ON LIFE AS BLACK, GAY MAN

ANDRé LEON TALLEY DIDN’T LIKE THE LABEL ‘GAY’ AND NEVER HAD A HBAND

Was he gay? TIKTOK: How to e the ‘Who Are My Parents’ filterPhoto by Roy Rochl/Getty Imag for Tribe Film FtivalAndré didn’t like the label ‘gay’In an terview wh Vany Fair 2013, André said that he didn’t like the label ‘gay’ as he never nsired himself that and has only ever been love wh women.

WHO WAS ANDRE LEON TALLEY PARTNER, WIFE, GAY, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN & MORE

“When Grigoriadis asks Talley if he thought he was gay, even high school, he rponds, ‘No, no, no. “Talley tells Grigoriadis that he rejects the ‘label’ and says that, while he has ‘had very gay experienc, y, I swear on my grandmother’s grave that I never slept wh a sgle signer my life, ” ntued.

Aga, he didn’t e the label ‘gay’ but sentially nfirmed that he was bisexual and open to romantic relatnships wh anyone.

ANDRé LEON TALLEY ON HIS FASHN CAREER, HIS WEIGHT STGGLE, AND HIS SEXUAL PASTBY VANY FAIRAUGT 7, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE INIC FASHN EDOR TELLS VANY FAIR NTRIBUTG EDOR VANSA GRIGORIADIS THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE THAT “THE WORLD HAS BEE TOO SUAL, AND PEOPLE HAVE BEE LAZY. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WENT ON THE AIRPLANE WH GLOV.” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS ABOUT THE GLOV WORN BY SUCH LADI AS KERRY WASHGTON, MICHELLE OBAMA, BEYONCé, JACKIE O, AND HIS IENDS PLE ROTHSCHILD AND GLORIA VON THURN UND TAXIS: “IT’S ABOUT GLOV, O.K., DARLG? IT’S ABOUT GLOV. LISTEN.”TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS OF HIS CHILDHOOD DURHAM, NORTH CAROLA, WHERE HE WAS RAISED BY HIS GRANDMOTHER THE 1950S AND 1960S. BULLIED HIS BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD, TALLEY FOUND SOLACE THE FASHN MAGAZ, CLUDG VOGUE, WHICH HE BOUGHT ON THE DE UNIVERSY MP, AND READG JOHN FAIRCHILD’S MEMOIR OF UTURE, THE FASHNABLE SAVAG, SO MANY TIM HE “PRACTILLY MEMORIZED .”WHEN GRIGORIADIS ASKS TALLEY IF HE THOUGHT HE WAS GAY, EVEN HIGH SCHOOL, HE RPONDS, “NO, NO, NO. I WAS JT TO MY MAGAZ AND THE DRAWGS. I HAD A VERY STRICT UPBRGG, ALMOST PURANIL. I LIVED THERE ALL THE WAY THROUGH LLEGE. I WAS MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOE, AND I RPECTED THAT!” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE REJECTS THE “LABEL” AND SAYS THAT, WHILE HE HAS “HAD VERY GAY EXPERIENC, Y, I SWEAR ON MY GRANDMOTHER’S GRAVE THAT I NEVER SLEPT WH A SGLE SIGNER MY LIFE. NEVER, EVER SIRED, NEVER WAS ASKED, NEVER WAS APPROACHED, NEVER, EVER BOUGHT, MY ENTIRE REER. NEVER. NOT ONE. SKNY OR FAT. NEVER.”TALLEY ALSO TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE HAS NEVER BEEN LOVE WH A MAN—ONLY TWO WOMEN: ONE A FELLOW STUNT PROVINCE, THE OTHER A SOCIETY WOMAN WH WHOM HE FELL LOVE AFTER A NIGHT OF DANCG MANHATTAN AND WHOSE NAME HE CL TO SHARE BEE SHE LATER MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN. ON BEG SGLE, TALLEY SAYS, “I JT SAID TO A IEND, ‘I N CREATE THIS MAGIC, SO WHY DON’T I HAVE A LOVER?’” BUT, HE TELLS GRIGORIADIS, “IF I WAS A UPLE, I WOULDN’T LIKE TO STAY THE SAME BEDROOM. IT IS VERY UN-CHIC EUROPE TO SLEEP THE SAME BEDROOM.”OF HIS CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH ANNA WTOUR, HIS FORMER BOSS AT VOGUE, TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS, “I WOULDN’T HAVE STAYED AT VOGUE AS LONG AS I DID WHOUT ANNA BEG THERE. SHE WAS MY BIGGT ALLY. THERE ULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY.”TALLEY SAYS HE’S NEVER SEEN WTOUR WH A HAIR OUT OF PLACE: “MS. WTOUR HAS HAD HER BOB SCE SHE WAS HER 20S. I HAVE NEVER SEEN HER HAIR PULLED BACK. NEVER. NOT EVEN AT TENNIS.” A LLEAGUE OF TALLEY’S POTS OUT THAT “ANNA AND ANDRé ARE BT BUDDI . . . THIS IS THE ONLY MAN WHO ULD SEE ANNA HER UNRWEAR.”GRIGORIADIS REPORTS ON TALLEY’S LONGTIME STGGLE WH HIS WEIGHT. “I DO NOT WEIGH MYSELF,” TALLEY CLAIMS. “I DO NOT WANT TO GET ON THAT SLE. I ONLY KNOW WHAT I WEIGH OM THE WAY MY CLOTH F.” HE REVEALS THAT HE HAD A LAP BAND THAT HAS NOT WORKED; HE KEEPS EATG EVEN WH . “THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY CLOSE TO ME AND KNOW ME HAVE STOPPED BRGG MY WEIGHT UP,” HE SAYS. “THEY PROBABLY DISCS BEHD MY BACK, SOME OF THEM, THE FASHN WORLD.” BUT HIS WEIGHT HAS NEVER AFFECTED HIS SELF-TEEM. “I HAVE NEVER FELT LS OF A PERSON BEE OF MY DRAMATIC WEIGHT GA,” TALLEY SAYS. “UP OR DOWN, MY NFINCE AND SENSE OF SELF NEVER WAVERED.” TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE IS “UALLY ALWAYS RIGHT” ABOUT CLOTH AND OTHER TOPICS, THOUGH AT ONE POT HE ADDS, “EXCEPT ABOUT MYSELF.”TALLEY TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE SOMETIM WONRS WHY HE’S NEVER BEEN THE EDOR OF A MAJOR MAGAZE, AND THAT RACE MAY PLAY A FACTOR. “PEOPLE STEREOTYPE YOU,” HE SAYS. “WHAT PERSON OF LOR DO YOU KNOW WHO’S A POSN LIKE THAT, BE A MAN OR A WOMAN, UNLS ’S ESSENCE MAGAZE?”TALLEY, WHO LIV WHE PLAS, NEW YORK, 30 NORTH OF MANHATTAN, TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT HE SPENDS HIS EVENGS WATCHG A LOT OF MSNBC: “FIVE O’CLOCK IS CHRIS MATTHEWS; SIX O’CLOCK IS REVEREND AL SHARPTON. THEN I WA FOR RACHEL AND LAWRENCE. AND I’LL PROBABLY LOOK AT JUDGE JUDY. I WISH SHE WERE MY IEND.”NEW YORK TIM LUMNIST MREEN DOWD LLS TALLEY A “FASHN SNIPER,” AND SCRIB HER RELATNSHIP WH HIM AS A “CULTURAL LLISN. HE IS HIGH-FASHN AND I’M NO-FASHN.” TALLEY STAYED WH DOWD DURG THE LAST PRINTIAL GURATN, AND DOWD TELLS GRIGORIADIS THAT TALLEY STOPPED HER AT THE DOOR: “ARMS FOLD STUBBORNLY, HE TOLD ME I ULD NOT GO OUT LOOKG LIKE ‘A ROAD-SHOW RA HAYWORTH,’ AND SAID I HAD TO EHER IRON THE DRS OR CHANGE. I CHANGED. HE ROLLED HIS EY WHEN I WORE SOME [STYLISH] DARK-GREEN BOOTI WH A BLACK DRS TO A RECEPTN WH THE OBAMAS, NOTG THAT BOOTI WERE FOR GOG TO STARBUCKS, NOT THE WHE HOE. WHEN WE WENT TO [A] MET OPENG I WORE A LONG DRS A IEND HAD GIVEN ME THAT SHE FOUND ON EBAY, A REEM ACRA MERMAIDY-LOOKG SEAFOAM-LORED DRS. I FELT VERY ETHEREAL UNTIL ANDRé TOOK ONE LOOK, PICKED UP A B OF THE SKIRT, AND MURMURED OMOLY, ‘TULLE. BLANCHE DUBOIS.’”CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE AND RECEIVE THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE WHILE STILL ON NEWSSTANDS.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: IMPEACH BIN NOW OR I'LL SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENTBY ERIC LUTZJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANVANY FAIR

However, he also revealed that he had “very gay experienc” throughout his Disney Dreamers Amy: Do st to be a part of ?

Talley, who was openly gay, lived alone and had ltle semblance of a romantic life, left no immediate Novack, the director of the 2018 documentary, ​​said he was “a classic Amerin succs story” but noted that his succs “has e at a st. When she was anoted edor 1988, Talley took her old job, both a novelty – male, gay, Ain Amerin – and a lk wh Vreeland. He nfsed that, though proudly gay, he had avoid sex sce childhood abe.

“But maybe that’s bee I’m another gay Black boy om the South. ”When Grigoriadis asks Talley if he thought he was gay, even high school, he rponds, “No, no, no.

FASHN IN ANDRé LEON TALLEY REFLECTS ON LIFE AS BLACK, GAY MAN

” Talley tells Grigoriadis that he rejects the “label” and says that, while he has “had very gay experienc, y, I swear on my grandmother’s grave that I never slept wh a sgle signer my life. It mt embrace and glorify the gay athetic.

But director Kate Novack ph Talley to speak about his experienc as a black, gay man.