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        <title><![CDATA[André Leon Talley: Condé Nast editors unable to see ‘world through black eyes’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>André Leon Talley</strong> charges that the top editors at Condé Nast — including <strong>Anna Wintour</strong> — are incapable of seeing &#8220;the world through black eyes.&#8221;</p><p>The longtime Vogue editor-at-large writes in his new memoir, <strong>&#8220;The Chiffon Trenches,&#8221;</strong>&nbsp;out May 19, that he <strong>wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post</strong> praising the &#8220;history-making&#8221; 2018 September Vogue cover featuring Beyoncé — the first cover in the magazine&#8217;s history to be shot by a black photographer.</p><p>But the 70-year-old claimed that not a single editor at the famed publishing house contacted him about his article.</p><p>Talley writes in his memoir, &#8220;When I first saw this cover, I knew it was history in the making.”</p><p>&#8220;Chosen at Beyoncé&#8217;s suggestion, photographer Tyler Mitchell, at only twenty-three years old, became the first black man to shoot a cover image in the 123-year history of one of the most prestigious magazines to ever exist.&#8221;</p><p>He said the images of the singer standing against a white sheet in the fresh air symbolized black women who worked as laundresses to survive.</p><p>&#8220;Upon [the op-ed] publication,&#8221; Talley noted, &#8220;I sent a link to Susan Plagemann, the publisher of Vogue. She was thrilled with the piece and sent it off to every major editor in the Condé Nast lineup, including Anna Wintour.&#8221;</p><p>He added, &#8220;Not one of those editors wrote me about the piece. Not one quick email from Anna Wintour. Editors I&#8217;ve worked with for decades didn&#8217;t understand the immense importance of this occasion simply because they are not capable of understanding. None of my contemporaries have seen the world through black eyes.&#8221;</p><p>Meanwhile, Mitchell tweeted in 2018 — after reports surfaced claiming that Beyoncé had chosen him —that Anna Wintour and Raul Martinez, Condé Nast&#8217;s Corporate Creative Director, had suggested him for the shoot. &#8220;Beyoncé quickly agreed,&#8221; Mitchell tweeted.</p><p>Condé Nast sources also denied to Page Six that Talley&#8217;s article had been ignored, saying that many people in the company had read and appreciated it.</p><p>In the memoir, Talley charted his rise from Durham, North Carolina, to the epicenter of the Manhattan&#8217;s fashion world — from nights out with Andy Warhol, whom he worked for at Interview magazine — to his meeting with <strong>Karl Lagerfeld</strong>, the late Chanel designer, who he was close friends with for 40 years &#8220;until we weren&#8217;t.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_5237740"  class="wp-caption alignleft"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/andre-leon-talley-karl-lagerfeld.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/andre-leon-talley-karl-lagerfeld.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/andre-leon-talley-karl-lagerfeld.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Karl Lagerfeld and André Leon Talley</span><span class="credit">WireImage for Chanel</span></figcaption></figure><p>Talley noted they fell out after Talley suggested — &#8220;in front of a new group of friends Lagerfeld was hanging out with&#8221; — that Lagerfeld hold a joint exhibition with photographer Deborah Turbeville.</p><p>Lagerfeld’s ego, Talley said, &#8220;wouldn’t let him support another artist in the realm of photography,&#8221; and described the episode as &#8220;a colossal blunder.”</p><p>The two never spoke again and Lagerfeld allegedly went so far, according to Talley, as to take him off the guest list for Chanel shows. A source told Page Six that the pair had once been so close that Talley stayed with him in Paris, flown over on Lagerfeld&#8217;s private jet to see him.</p><p>Meanwhile, Talley also revealed how Warhol would often stick his hands in Talley&#8217;s crotch — always in public, never in private — saying: &#8220;I would just swat him away, the way I did annoying flies in the summer on my front porch in the South.&#8221;</p><p>Warhol also asked Talley to take part in his <strong>Oxidation paintings aka &#8220;the piss paintings&#8221;</strong> — but he declined for fear of breaking his mom&#8217;s heart. He tried to get him to take part in his sex paintings as well, telling him &#8220;you could make your c&#8211;k famous.&#8221; Again, Talley declined.</p><p>Elsewhere in his memoir, Talley recalled sharing a baked potato and caviar with the late designer Halston — alongside lines of cocaine — although he said he only dabbled in drugs.</p><p>And Talley confessed how he was surrounded by sex amongst New York&#8217;s debauched artsy scene but was sexually &#8220;repressed&#8221; — forced to confront his abuse at the hands of men in his neighborhood while growing up.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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