Explore Quotes by Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.