Andr%C3%A9 Leon Talley

Andr Leon Talley is the former American editoratlarge for Vogue magazine, listed as Contributing Editor in the April 2010 masthead. Talley has been a frontrow regular at fashion shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan for more thanyears. He uses his influence to promote young fashion designers and mentors young talent in other fields.

Talley was born October 16, 1949, in Washington, D.C., as the son of Alma Ruth Davis and William C. Talley, a taxi driver. His parents left him with his grandmother, Bennie Davis, who was a cleaning lady at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina. Davis raised him and, he claims, gave him an understanding of luxury. His grandfather was a sharecropper.

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