Many ‘Superfine’ tributes to André Leon Talley at the Met Gala

André Leon Talley’s beingness could beryllium felt everyplace astatine the Met Gala connected Monday. The precocious originative manager and exertion astatine ample of Vogue magazine, who died successful 2022 astatine property 73, heavy influenced the spirit of the costume exhibit, wherever 1 of his suits was featured, and the glitzy event itself.

Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour wrote extensively astir her aged workfellow successful her editor’s missive past month, penning that she would beryllium “thinking of him connected the nighttime of the Met Gala, an evening made for him — and 1 I tin scarcely judge helium volition miss.”

And she was hardly the lone one. Many attendees, arsenic divers arsenic Anne Hathaway and Rev. Al Sharpton, had Talley apical of caput arsenic they walked the bluish carpet Monday. Hathaway, successful Carolina Herrera, said she dressed specifically for him.

“We wanted André Leon Talley to look down from eden and shriek ‘GLAMOUR,’” Hathaway said connected the Vogue livestream.

Sharpton, meanwhile, wanted to spotlight Talley's trailblazing contributions to the manner world. He said that radical similar Talley fought to person a nighttime similar this. “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” is the archetypal Costume Institute grounds to absorption exclusively connected Black designers.

“I cognize André Leon Talley is looking down connected us, smiling,” Sharpton said. “That’s wherefore I had to beryllium here. And I had to beryllium arsenic dandy arsenic I could.”

Event co-chair Colman Domingo seemed to wage homage to Talley’s passionateness for melodramatic capes, and perchance adjacent the look that Talley wore successful 2011, with his agleam bluish Valentino.

Some were much obvious. Actor Tessa Thompson wore a instrumentality accessory with the precocious famed Vogue exertion pictured connected the front, and exemplary Paloma Elsesser wore a leather overgarment decorated with his look portion connected her mode to get acceptable for the event.

And others got other creative, channeling Talley’s infectious exuberance. Doechii, who is connected the big committee, recreated a celebrated photograph of Talley joyfully bounding retired of a hotel, with a larger-than-life smile, a tennis racket and arms afloat of Louis Vuitton luggage.

The point, everyone seemed to understand, was to person amusive with it. Talley would have.

“André knew who helium was, and I cognize however overmuch helium would person adored “Superfine,” each facet of it,” Wintour wrote.

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