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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. So many amazing figures have passed recently, and this is my second memoir in just a month reading about their life. Andre Leon Talley loved fashion to a beautiful degree, and it was wonderfully fun to hear about all of his remembered outfits and the moments when he wore them. This is a story of a fascinating and complicated man who was surrounded by people of the same. There’s some interesting gossip based on broken relationships with luminaries such as Karl Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour, but mostly it was about his experiences in the world of fashion and how it evolved from when he started in the 1970s all the way through when he finished the book in 2019. ( ) this is an alternately fun and gossipy and kind of sad memoir about Talley's life as a fashion journalist. He talks about his friends, his frenemies, his struggles with weight and loneliness, racism in the fashion industry and other topics. And he talks extensively about clothes and the changes in the magazine industry. If you read Ruth Reichl's recent Gourmet memoir some of it will be familiar as Vogue is also a Conde Nast publication. He spends a lot of time on his wonderful friends, his amazing friends, his generous, mercurial, moody and fabulous friends, and yet somehow he comes across as desperately lonely. You kind of just want to give him a big hug. This is a dishy book about the author's career in the fashion industry from his first job as glorified receptionist at Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, to Paris Bureau Chief for Women's Wear Daily to the offices of Vogue under the legendary Anna Wintour. Talley leaves practically no character unassassinated. This makes the book a fun read, but I hope he's not waiting for another Christmas card from Anna Wintour I've consumed Vogue since I was in junior high, and was ecstatic when I found out about this new memoir from André Leon Talley. ALT is the genius behind what we recognize as modern-day American Vogue, and overcame many personal, familial, relational, and societal barriers to become who we now adore. Some memoirs fall flat because the book is co-written by a professional writer. That is not the case in The Chiffon Trenches. ALT was an editor and contributor at Vogue and other prestigious publications, and his talents shine here where he is free to communicate his truth with his readers. I can't help but think how fabulous it would be for Talley to write a picture book for children about his journey into the fashion world, especially for young Black and Brown boys to read. PS The book cover and title are just brilliant. Andre Leon Talley’s career in fashion reporting has spanned Warhol’s Interview, Women’s Wear Dailey, Ebony, Vanity Fair and Vogue. His discerning eye and unique voice led to meteoric success even as the times had little room for a back gay man. His latest memoir, “The Chiffon Trenches” Is filled with juicy gossip of his life and times with such characters as Anna Wintour, Lee Radziwill, Karl Lagerfeld, Diana Vreeland, Naomi Campbell and many, many more. A fine addition to my reads about fashion giants such as Vreeland, Bill Cunningham and Grace Coddington. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon, bestselling author, and former Vogue creative director Andr Leon Talley. During Andr Leon Talley's first magazine job assisting Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decade's long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, Talley moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild's Women's Wear Daily, befriending fashion's most important designers. But as Talley made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he developed an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour, and as she rose to the top of Vogue's masthead, Talley became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches is a candid look at the who's who of the last fifty years of fashion, and proof that fact is always fascinatingly more devilish than fiction. Andr Leon Talley's engaging memoir tells the story of how he not only survived but thrived--despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry--to become one of the most legendary voices and faces in fashion"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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