André Leon Talley didn’t mince his words when he described his relationship with the VOGUE Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour . Andre’s book “The Chiffon Trenches” is set to be released in September.
The 70-year-old former VOGUE editor-at-large opens up about his close relationship with VOGUE editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
André Leon Talley is giving his fans a behind-the-scenes look at his life in his upcoming memoir titled The Chiffon Trenches.
In his memoir, André said Anna was SO bad he suffered “huge emotional and psychological scars” after working with her for decades.
The fashion maven said Anna Wintour is simply NOT “capable of simple human kindness” and that she’s “immune to anyone other than the powerful and famous people who populate the pages of VOGUE.”
It seems André and Anna’s relationship started to take a turn for the worse in 2016 when he started hosting a VOGUE podcast that invited celebrity guests. The issue was that Andre was only being paid $500 per episode even though the podcast was reportedly a success. Next thing you know, it’s gone – with no explanation!
When VOGUE didn’t hit him up to do the red carpet interviews at the 2018 Met Gala (which he did annually) that’s when he knew they were trying to push him out.
He said they told him the job was “beneath” him.
The DailyMail has more excerpts from the book below:
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The 70-year-old former VOGUE editor-at-large opens up about his close relationship with VOGUE editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
André Leon Talley is giving his fans a behind-the-scenes look at his life in his upcoming memoir titled The Chiffon Trenches.
The fashion maven said Anna Wintour is simply NOT “capable of simple human kindness” and that she’s “immune to anyone other than the powerful and famous people who populate the pages of VOGUE.”
It seems André and Anna’s relationship started to take a turn for the worse in 2016 when he started hosting a VOGUE podcast that invited celebrity guests. The issue was that Andre was only being paid $500 per episode even though the podcast was reportedly a success. Next thing you know, it’s gone – with no explanation!
When VOGUE didn’t hit him up to do the red carpet interviews at the 2018 Met Gala (which he did annually) that’s when he knew they were trying to push him out.
He said they told him the job was “beneath” him.
”This was clearly a stone-cold business decision,” Andre wrote in the book. “I had suddenly become too old, too overweight, too uncool, I imagined, for Anna Wintour. After decades of loyalty and friendships...Anna should have had the decency and kindness to call me or send me an email saying: 'Andre, I think we have had a wonderful run with your interviews but we are going to try something new. I would have accepted that...I understand; nothing lasts forever. Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable'.André addressed the BS. He also said what he wants from Anna now.
“She has mercilessly made her best friends people who are the highest in their chosen fields. Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Mr. and Mrs. George Clooney are, to her, friends. I am no longer of value to her.”
“Today, I would love for her to say something human and sincere to me. I have huge emotional and psychological scars from my relationship with this towering and influential woman. I wonder, when she goes home alone at night, is she miserable? Does she feel alone?”
The DailyMail has more excerpts from the book below:
Talley returned to Vogue as editor-at-large where his weight carried on ballooning and one day Wintour called him and said: 'You've got to go to the gym'.You can read more here.
He got a personal trainer and tried the cabbage diet - where you just eat cooked cabbage -but it didn't work.
So Wintour staged an intervention with Talley's pastor and designer Oscar de la Renta and his wife, who were two of Talley's closest friends.
Wintour explained that Talley's weight was 'out of control' and he was sent for rehab at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center in his hometown of Durham, North Carolina.
Talley lost 55lbs but he put it back on and he returned to the center three times for a 'yo-yo battle I long ago realized I will never win'.
In 2016 Vogue started a podcast and Wintour announced that Talley was the host. It began as a huge success with guests like Tom Ford, Kim Kardashian, Marc Jacobs and Alexander Wang.
But it was around this time things began to go sour for Talley's friendship with Wintour. He gripes about being paid just $500 for each episode of the podcast, a sum which he calls 'peanuts'.
My car service bills cost that much and more for a round-trip from White Plains to One World Trade Center', where the Vogue office is based,' he writes.
One day she treats me like a good friend and a colleague, and the next day, she treats me as if she had just handed over her keys to an unknown parking valet.
📎 The key is : Learn how to BE HAPPY BY YOURSELF FIRST. Because a human being that is happy on his/her own will never settle to be miserable with someone else. When you find happiness on your own then you will be able to spread it and share it with someone else. ... CRITIC ALSO 🖋️ spill TEA ☕ Easy on Shade 💣
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