André Leon Talley Instagram – I submit the Vogue cover, of our historically and monumentally, first black and immigrant Vice-President elect Kamala Harris:
Its GREAT. JUST GREAT! GREAT.
She selected her personal wardrobe choices. Her work uniform with her ubiquitous Converse sneakers is aspirational.
I predict its going to set a trend for all young women all over the world, are going to dress like Kamala Harris. Not everyone
evolves wishing to be a screen star, or a music vixen, or a Kardashian beauty empress. There are girls who will see in this
cover, something wonderful. Black photographer @tylersphotos , comes from a universe that is new. He is not aligned with the titans of @vogue photographers before him: Avedon, Penn, and the current hero Annie Lebowitz. His work must be seen through the prism of 2021. We are after all dealing with serious issues: the global Pandemic, the sudden horror of domestic terrorism. Both the digital and the print covers are superb. Knitting controversy is utterly ridiculous. I worked on Vogue over three decades. I was chosen by Anna Wintour to do the first profile for our legendary and brilliant, African-American First lady, Michelle Obama. For months, the Vogue team took every moment of organizing the shoot with gravitas. Tonne Goodman styled the cover and the shoot. I wrote the piece.
Excellence is required and while fashion is always the core issue ,yet the cultural pendulum swings. After all, no one is wearing a stiletto everyday during COVID . Madame Vice-President-elect has a lot of work to do. And she is not thinking every day about how she is looking. Her mere strength, her determination and her goals to work for all Americans is foremost. A simple black jacket, a tee shirt, a simple strand of pearls, and her beautiful hair, her smile, her warmth suggests all the elegance one desires. Everyone is trashing that pink and green background. It is symbolic that
Tyler Mitchell would use that to express her Madam vice president admiration for her sorors of the AKA at Howard U. Take me down. Clapback at me on social media. All I can say is Anna Wintour is not abdicating.
And I wish I were there, at Vogue, to celebrate w/ the team. | Posted on 12/Jan/2021 18:53:53
