Andre Leon Talley Quotes

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.

Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.

I loathe anyone impressed by fame or money.

I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Oh no we don't play with silly girls All I know is the material girls

In Beverly Hills, the faster you climb, the harder you fall.

Studio 54 was the place you could never get into. Of course, the place you can't get into is the place everyone is trying to get into.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.