Andre Leon Talley Quotes
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Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.
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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
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I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.
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Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.
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I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
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It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.
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On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.
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The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
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The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.
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Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.
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Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.
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I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.
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Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.
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I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.
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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.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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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.
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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.
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Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
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Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
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You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
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Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
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Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.
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I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.
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People have always been fascinated by people in the public eye and what they wear, what they are doing, but not in a tabloid way. Tabloid celebrities are a turnoff. A lot of celebrities...you wonder why they are celebrities.
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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.
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