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The Man Who Taught Me How to Dress: André Leon Tally

For the first time in its history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute will feature an exhibit exclusive to men's fashion, but more importantly, it will focus on Black men's fashion. There is no voice more prominent in Black men’s fashion than that of the late André Leon Talley. Talley was a young African American man who broke into the all-white world of fashion in the 1970s, and served as the first black creative director of American Vogue. The magnetism of Talley’s persona made him a cult classic amongst those in fashion’s inner circle.

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