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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E7. André Leon Talley, Fashion Icon (part one).
Description: Today’s episode is with titan of American fashion, André Leon Talley.
Raised in Durham North Carolina by his grandmother, Andre’s love for fashion began at an early age, with his discovery of magazines like Vogue and Harper Bazaar, giving him access to worlds and visions beyond the segregated Jim Crow South. A star student, Andre received a full scholarship to Brown University to study French literature, after completing his undergraduate degree at local HBCU, North Carolina Central University.
Although he came from humble beginnings, André’s meteoric rise through the editorial mastsheads of fashion...