André Leon Talley is an imposing, if improbable, fashion landmark, steeped in style history, his judgment sought by top designers. At 64, light-years from the segregated South of his childhood, the new editor of Numéro Russia has apprenticed with Diana Vreeland, gone clubbing with Karl Lagerfeld, and seen Anna Wintour in the dressing room. Visiting Talley in White Plains, VANESSA GRIGORIADIS hears about his love life, his avoirdupois, and the importance of gloves, darling
There is perhaps no more unlikely milieu to observe André Leon Talley than the Scarsdale branch of Balducci’s food market, about 30 miles north of Manhattan, but it was there that Talley, one of the top arbiters of the fashion world, arranged to meet for lunch. Talley, 64, recently of Vogue and now heading Numéro Russia…