Andre Leon Talley: 'The Chiffon Trenches'

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Faith is what got Andre Leon Talley through decades of intrigues and betrayal in the world of high fashion. The former Vogue Magazine Creative Director -- and the first African-American to hold such a title -- details his survival strategies in his best-selling new memoir 'The Chiffon Trenches', on The Treatment.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.5	Welcome to the home edition of the treatment.
0:16.8	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:18.0	About my guess, well, what to say.
0:20.3	How about this? As I was reading his terrific new book, The Chaffan Trenches, a line came to mind, I think, from Octavio Persona Pachuco, where he says, all of us at some moment, if had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable, and very precious. It is the opening of an
0:38.7	impalpable, transparent wall, that of our consciousness between the world and ourselves.
0:44.8	There's no one, I think, who exemplifies that sort of recognizing of self and will of self
0:49.6	than my guest, Mr. Andre Leontelli. His fabulous new book, of course, is The Chafon Trenches.
0:56.0	Andre, thank you so much for doing this.
0:58.0	Oh, I'm so honored to be on your show once again.
1:01.6	I was still looking forward to it.
1:03.7	And thank you for having me.
1:05.6	Oh, well, thank you for being here.
1:07.2	And I guess the first thing I want to say to you is, just reading about what people
1:11.2	are saying about the book, it strikes me as being odd that nobody mentions the introduction,
1:15.3	where you go into great detail to mention in kind of a pre-see, what it's like still to be a personal
1:22.4	color in the world of fashion. Well, I'll tell you this, Elvis. People have responded to this book. Most people
1:31.2	brilliantly, Gail King, on CBS this morning. I did a great podcast with her, as well as the CBS
1:38.0	live from my porch. I want to say this right from its start. One of the most important things I could have done was to be in a conversation with you because I respect you and I honor you and we have friends.
1:50.1	Let's just put that out there.
1:51.5	I have been totally surprised at what people have responded to about this book.
1:59.2	This book is my legacy.
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