Andre L'Antale has been a fashion icon for decades.

For years he was a top advisor to Anna Winter at Vogue

and before that he worked closely with Diane Vreeland and Andy Warhol.

But life has often been cruel to Andre.

I'm a once I ordered a beautiful canvas bag from the

from the bag pages and it was the bag,

it was a plumber's canvas bag.

But you could send away for this plumber's bag.

It took eight weeks to come and I had printed on the plumber's bag, the word junket,

junket.

If you look up the word...

Why that word?

Huh?

Because that's what appealed to me.

It was a plumber's bag, It takes a plumber's junk.

A junket. And I got the bag for the mailbox and opened it up and went down the street and just walking down the street in Washington DC D.C. on a Saturday morning, these two guys, they just saw me walking and they just came up and hit me in my face.

But I was smart enough to run to a porch and ring a doorbell for a stranger's door to protect myself and being beaten

up by these two guys. They obviously didn't understand what it was and so they just

reached out and hit me so it doesn't matter you know I just keep going when these

things happen and no matter what I did, my grandmother always

gave me unconditional love, so.

Andre is a black man from the South, son of a domestic who somehow became an indispensable

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