Andre Leon Talley & Diane Von Furstenberg In New York City In 2009 Editorial Image

Andre Leon Talley arrives at the Vanity Fair Party for the 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in Lower Manhattan on April 21, 2009. He was a creative, dynamic, and unique force in the fashion industry. He was an editor, a curator, author and creative director who worked with Women`s Wear Daily, Vogue, Harper`s Bazaar, and the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His friend, designer Diane von Furstenberg, seen with Talley here, said of him, `No one saw the world in a more elegant way than he did.` Actress, comedian, and tv personality Whoopi Goldberg considered him an erudite man, and `there was no greater advocate for women.` Talley died of a heart attack in White Plains, New York, on January 18, 2022, at the age of 73.