.CathyHoryn shares her experience with the late fashion legend. AndreLeonTalley
Photo: Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Soon after joining the fashion staff of the New York Times in 1998, I fell into the habit of arriving early at the office, then in the old building on West 43rd Street. I’d take a 6:30 a.m. train from Garrison, where I lived, and then hoof the several blocks from Grand Central, reaching the paper before 8.
“Oh,” he said, pursing his lips. “Anna and I were wondering” — Anna being Anna Wintour, his boss. “She said, ‘Cathy Horyn has very small feet.’” A remark to treasure. The truth is André was not the only nor the first Black man to achieve a high place in fashion journalism. There is his contemporary, Michael Roberts, the great English editor and photographer who served in the ’90s and early 2000s as the fashion director at The New Yorker and later Vanity Fair, after a distinguished run in London, and who has since gone on to write and illustrate children’s books.
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