04 January, 2009

A new respect

I've always appreciated the work of Andre Leon Talley, the Vogue Editor-at-Large. While the fashion world is making strides as far as race is concerned, certainly top exces and editors at the big mags; Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Esquire are predominantly white. Mr. Talley has been instrumental in promoting designers of color as models in the pages of Vogue. The fashion set know him as the guy sitting next to Anna Wintour (Vogue Editor-in-Chief), but this interview with Charlie Rose gave me a new light on Mr. Talley. At the end of his segment (which begins at 23:00) I had a new level of respect for him as a journalist and arbiter on style. Check out the video.

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