Perspective: Christie’s is auctioning off the late fashion editor André Leon Talley’s fabulous possessions, including paintings, caftans, mountains of Louis Vuitton luggage and a bedazzled NAACP T-shirt.
Appreciation: André Leon Talley became an icon by never losing faith in the glory of fashion
And so Thursday evening, just as this city’s Fashion Week was getting underway, in a gray-and-white auction salon at Christie’s, members of the Abyssinian choir, all dressed in black and the ladies in pearls, settled themselves in two rows of a makeshift riser and began to sing the greats: Diana Ross’s “Theme from Mahogany,” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Nina Simone’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and Mahalia Jackson’s “How I Got Over.
“The real value is in the provenance and the history of the object,” says Liz Seigel, head of private and iconic collections at the auction house. “I hope that by having André Leon Talley’s collection — he was such a trailblazer — by us showing that he deserves a sale at Christie’s that it will help society see him as the great man that he was.”Most everything is big. The photographs in the catalogue cannot capture the immensity.
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