The Chiffon Trenches

"For months after the longtime Vogue editor was on Fresh Air, we’d quote him to each other around the office: “I wanted to look like a pirate! And I dressed like a pirate!” So I was delighted that André Leon Talley’s memoir captures his voice in all its glorious melodrama and encyclopedic use of proper nouns. (He loves to drop a name!) Talley narrates his decades-long career in fashion – the people who took him in, and those who spit him out – and, as he writes, “how a black man survived and thrived in the chiffon trenches.”"

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