The fashion world has recently lost three of its greats.

In January, former Vogue creative director André Leon Talley died.

He was 73.

You can be a aristocratic without having been born into an aristocratic family.

Talley was the rare black editor at a time when they were few and far between.

As he told NPR in 2020, his presence could cause friction.

As you bowly with confidence, show who you are to the world.

Certain people just have the fear of seeing someone tall and black.

Certainly come on the surface.

Shortly after that, fashion designer Terry Mugler died also 73.

It is a show for big kids, a grand child like I am.

Mugler was known for funky otherworldly silhouettes.

He dressed stars like Grace Jones, David Bowie and Diana Ross.

And in November of last year Louis Vuitton artistic director Virgil Oblodide, he was 41.

My personal goal is to understand what this new ethos and design can bring, like new collections,

garments and new ways that fashion can relate to the public.

Robin Gavon, the Washington Post's senior critic at large, reflected on what these losses

across the fashion industry mean.

You'd lose a sense of institutional creative knowledge and expertise.

You also, I think, lose the knowledge and the technique and the understanding of the business.

Consider this, the clothes we wear, the fashion we value, they mirror our culture and how

we see ourselves, now and in the future.

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