Force of Fashion

André Leon Talley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2006 Costume Institute Benefit, dressed for the theme, “AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion.” From Met Gala ensembles to personal treasures, an archival exhibition in Provence pays tribute to the elegantly extravagant editor André Leon Talley, whose influence lives on By Amy Fine Collins When Paula Wallace , president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design, proposed to André Leon Talley that the school create an exhibition devoted to his wardrobe, the redoubtable fashion editor exclaimed, “It must be done!” In fact, since that conversation, SCAD has mounted three such shows, each entitled “André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever.” The first opened at the SCAD Museum of Art, in Savannah; the second at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, in Atlanta ; and now the third opens on Wednesday at the university’s study-abroad campus, SCAD FASH Lacoste, in Provence, France. READ ON