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Andr茅 Leon Talley: Race, fashion and Vogue

Andr茅 Leon Talley was the Creative Director at US Vogue for many years and a close colleague of its editor, Anna Wintour. He looks back at his decades in the fashion industry.

Since George Floyd died in Minneapolis with a white police officer鈥檚 knee on his neck, new conversations about racism and discrimination have begun all over the world. It鈥檚 not just about policing, it鈥檚 about business, sport, culture 鈥 every aspect of life. HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to Andr茅 Leon Talley, who was creative director of American Vogue magazine when the fashion industry was almost devoid of senior black men. He鈥檚 just written a controversial memoir of his life in what he calls 鈥渢he chiffon trenches鈥.

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