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Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney

André Leon Talley dreamed of a life 'in the pages of Vogue, where bad things never happened'

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Every time we see a “fashion moment”, we use the words of André Leon Talley, from his description of Galliano’s 1994 Japonisme show.

Talley, who died yesterday age 73, was a flamboyant, over-the-top figure from the fashion industry, inclined to snobbery and rather overbearing. He had a longstanding love of French culture and the cross-fertilisation of fashion, art, poetry and life.

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