Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s spurned sidekick André Leon Talley takes few prisoners in his exposé of nasty fashionistas, says Lisa Armstrong André Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches – his account of life at American Vogue – is ideal reading material for anyone who found The Devil Wears Prada addictive but now needs a stronger hit.
It is brimful of toxic behaviour and noxious values, which makes it perfect consolation, too, for lockdown. Maybe we are better off without other people?
Now 70, the journalist began his caviar-and-Concorde-fuelled adventures in fashionland when he was plucked from obscurity by the visionary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, inspiration for the “Think Pink” magazine editrix in the 1957 film Funny Face.
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