Photo:Joe Kravetz/Laurel and Grand
Joe Kravetz/Laurel and Grand
André Leon Talley’sformer home is up for sale — and its historic features are almost as iconic as him.
An ode to the formerVoguecreative director’s love for color and pattern, the stairs in the entryway are covered in a leopard-print runner — a pattern featured throughout the home in the office and a bedroom.
All around the house, historic details like original leaded windows, Dutch doors, wide plank hardwood floors and a beamed ceiling in the living room are found.
Details fit for a fashion icon can be seen all over — including in the living room, where the ceilings are a light but rich shade of blue, the dining room walls covered in yellow and blue floral wallpaper and the bathroom complete with gold hardware.
Talley’s death from a heart attack at the age of 73shocked fashion-loversall over the world. He was known for his extravagant style choices,vibrant personalityandpushing limits in the fashion industry.
Talley first joinedVoguein 1983 as the magazine’s fashion news director. He quickly rose to creative director, making history as thefirst Black man to hold this position, and became editor-in-chiefAnna Wintour’sright-hand — a position he held from 1987 to 1995. He left Vogue in 1995 and moved to Paris, where he returned toWmagazine after working at the publication earlier in his career.
He continued contributing toVogueas an editor until he rejoined the magazine in 1998 full-time as the editor-at-large, writing the monthly column Style Fax.TheChiffon Trenchesauthor stayed in this role until his final departure fromVoguein 2013.
At the time of his death, Wintour remembered Talley’s legacy and impact on the fashion industry in an obituary posted onVogue’swebsite.
source: people.com
