{"id":5158,"date":"2010-06-02T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2010-06-02T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:50:37","slug":"andre-leon-talley-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/andre-leon-talley-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Leon Talley: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andre-leon-tqlley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5159\" title=\"andre leon tqlley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andre-leon-tqlley-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andre-leon-tqlley.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/andre-leon-tqlley.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just saw &#8220;<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor<\/em>&#8221; for the first time, and of course it is delightful. The love story, the pugs, the hair, the dresses, the excess! My favorite moment was Valentino&#8217;s emotional proclamation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;An evening dress that reveals a woman&#8217;s ankles when she is walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But when <strong>Andre Leon Talley<\/strong> appeared, I wondered anew, What is the point of him?<\/p>\n<p>Watching him in the <em>September<\/em> movie, I felt he provided comic relief but beyond that, I don&#8217;t get it. Is he some kind of mascot for Anna Wintour?<\/p>\n<p>His writing is nothing special, his personal style is grotesque, he fucked up Jennifer Hudson that year at the Oscars, why is he so celebrated? Is it his enthusiasm?His height?<\/p>\n<p>This is a real question.&nbsp;\u00a0 All day long, I bombard my husband with questions even stupider, and he often responds by saying, &#8220;Why? Weren&#8217;t you at the meeting where we all learned this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, whoever was at the meeting, please explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw &#8220;Valentino: The Last Emperor&#8221; for the first time, and of course it is delightful. The love story, the pugs, the hair, the dresses, the excess! My favorite moment was Valentino&#8217;s emotional proclamation: &#8220;An evening dress that reveals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/andre-leon-talley-why\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[387,755,830,682],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1lc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}