They were once fashion’s most powerful pair – Anna Wintour, Vogue’s icy and immovable editor-in-chief, and André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life editor with a taste for revolutionary fashion.
The late style icon once claimed that Wintour was the ‘most important woman in his universe’ but, despite their friendship, the duo became embroiled in a bitter dispute with one another.
Talley, who was a groundbreaking Black voice in fashion and served as Vogue’s Editor-at-Large from 1995 to 2013, claimed that Wintour abruptly cut him out of the magazine’s inner circle in his 2020 memoir, The Chiffon Trenches.
He said their friendship ended without warning after decades of collaboration,…