num_pages: 284
description: During Andr Leon Talley's first magazine job alongside Andy Warhol at Interview a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion Andr moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild's Women's Wear Daily befriending fashion's most important designers (Halston Yves Saint Laurent Oscar de la Renta). But as Andr 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 eventually became creative director developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue's masthead Andr also ascended and soon became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who's who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how Andr not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived--despite racism illicit rumors and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry--to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion.Woven throughout the book are also Andr's own personal struggles that have impacted him over the decades along with intimate stories of those he has turned to for inspiration (Diana Vreeland Diane von Frstenberg Lee Radziwill to name a few) and of course his Southern roots and ongoing faith which have guided him since childhood.
language: English
title: The Chiffon Trenches
publisher: Ballantine Books