American Fashion journalist André Leon Talley was one of the most successful editors at the American magazine.
Talley was the former creative director and American editor-at-large of Vogue magazine.
He acted as the magazine’s fashion news director from 1983 to 1987 and then its creative director from 1988 to 1995.
What is André Leon Talley doing now?
Talley was fired at Vogue in 2018 and was replaced as the host of the Met Gala. He was replaced by a young YouTube star, Liza Koshy.
Explaining what happened at Vogue before he was fired in a May 2021 interview, he told The Tamron Hall Show he had a conflict with authorities at the magazines over his annual salary.
“I just found out two weeks ago from someone of authority that women at Vogue, high, high rate fashion editors made close to a million dollars,” Talley explained.
“I never made that much in a year. I made almost $300,000, but people on the same level, maybe they were doing more work than the fashion photoshoots, were making $900,000 a year.”
“They don’t make that anymore,” Talley continued, “but this is, this what comes when you live in America, when you’re a Black person, you have to wake up and you know there’s a double standard.”
Is André Leon Talley still alive?
André Leon Talle has died. He passed away Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at the age of 73. Talley died at a hospital in White Plains, New York on Tuesday.
