Andre Leon Talley Fashion Quotes & Sayings

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. — Andre Leon Talley

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. — Andre Leon Talley

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that. — Andre Leon Talley

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way. — Andre Leon Talley

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love. — Andre Leon Talley

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career. — Andre Leon Talley

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style. — Andre Leon Talley

I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets. — Andre Leon Talley