What Is Andre Leon Talley Doing In The Cheap Seats At Fashionweek?



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Will someone alert the frosty Anna Wintour that her arbiter elegantiae, Andre Leon Talley, is sitting in what can only be properly construed as "the cheap seats (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment)." Diesel. From a Twitter by Julia Allison, "Diesel - Spotted Andre Leon Talley sitting third row near door ... HUH?"

In The Great Fashion Chain Of Being, we thought Talley, who sits at the right hand of The Mother, is decidedly A-List material. But the Diesel report in addition to this, from Radar last week:

"We spotted Julia Frakes(at Yigal Azrouel), the diminutive college freshman and fashion blogger at Paper, perched in the front. Two rows behind the eighteen-year-old? None other than fashion giant Andre Leon Talley. Upstage? A break in rank? Did Andre not fit in the front? IS THIS EVEN A BIG DEAL?"

It should be.