André Leon Talley Made Fashion History — But That’s Not Enough

The icon paved the way for generations, even if he wasn’t as hands-on as some of us wished

André Leon Talley. Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images

“It’s tough being a big Black man in the world,” André Leon Talley told me in 2017. It was the day after a documentary about the fashion icon, The Gospel According to André, premiered at the Toronto…