NEW YORK – We stand on the shoulders of giants. André Leon Talley was certainly an influential trend large.
Whereas trend week descended on New York Metropolis, recollections of the previous Vogue artistic director, who died Jan. 18, 2022, stood because the tentpole: his affect as an intrepid trend journalist, advocate and curator with an outsized wealth of information looms giant. At a stay public sale Wednesday, particular person items went for tens of hundreds of {dollars} and the general sale totaled $1.3 million, in keeping with Christie’s public sale home. Earlier than the objects have been disbursed, the bodily remnants of his reminiscence have been on show all through the week in Midtown Manhattan.
Talley’s reminiscence was accented additional on a nationwide stage throughout the Tremendous Bowl halftime present as Rihanna, who was near Talley, wore a comforter-sized purple puffer coat from Alaïa, to seemingly pay homage to Talley’s Norma Kamali coat of the identical hue.
The legend’s profession met on the intersection of trend, artwork and Black historical past, starting his journey curating The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute earlier than working for Andy Warhol’s Interview Journal. Later, he held editorial titles at trend fixtures together with WWD, Ebony Journal, W Journal and later because the first and solely Black artistic director and later editor at giant.
Notches in his timeline of legendary cultural contributions are evident within the well-worn and liked objects collected from his residence in White Plains, New York.
An inside take a look at a few of the almost 400 items Christie’s collected reveals the wonder he fastidiously surrounded himself with in a life punctuated with each glamour and heartache.
