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    In The Beginning, There Was Fashion: 'The Gospel According To Andre'

    Kate Novack's documentary about the legendary fashion figure breezes past any deep or thought-provoking issues, but it, like its subject, has style for days.
    by Andrew Lapin May 24, 2018 3 minutes
    <em>The Gospel According to André </em>is the story of the iconic André Leon Talley, who grew up in the segregated South and later became the editor-at-large of <em>Vogue.</em>

    "You can be aristocratic without having been born into an aristocratic family." This is the gospel according to André Leon Talley, who rose from a childhood in segregated Durham, North Carolina, to become a fashion maven with , , Andy Warhol's Factory and . The things that made Talley an outcast in childhood (his race, his larger-than-life stature, his sexuality, his affinity for capes) were what gave him the aura of royalty once he entered the fashion world. You won't learn many dress tips from the new documentary , or even more

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