Former Vogue legend, Andre Leon Talley has died at age 73.
According to TMZ Vogue’s former creative director passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, New York.It’s currently unclear exactly what he was battling in the hospital.
Talley — who in 1988 was appointed by Anna Wintour to be the creative director of Vogue, the first African-American person to ever hold the position — responded by filing his own lawsuit against Malkemus and Yurgaitis in Westchester Supreme Court on January 25, 2021.
Following a long run of being Vogue’s designated red carpet correspondent and interviewer for the Met Gala, Talley was informed that his contract would not be renewed in 2018. “This was clearly a stone-cold business decision,” he wrote. “I had suddenly become too old, too overweight, and too uncool, I imagined, for Anna Wintour.”
He was not informed by Wintour herself, but rather an unnamed mid-level Vogue staffer. “Anna should have had the decency and kindness to call me or send me an e-mail saying, ‘André, I think we have had a wonderful run with your interviews, but we are going to try something new.’ I would have accepted that,” Talley added. “Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable.”
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