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Vogue’s first and only black creative director, André Leon Talley, will be honored at New York Fashion Week on Thursday, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Designer Frederick Anderson will pay tribute to Talley, who died in January, at the sixth annual Blue Jacket Fashion Show to promote prostate cancer awareness, we’re told.
“For a black man getting into fashion, André Leon Talley was an icon and inspiration. He showed me who I was and what could be possible,” Anderson told Page Six on Friday.
Talley hosted the Blue Jacket show twice and one of his last public appearances was hosting it in Feb. 2020. He was expected to participate again this year before he passed away at White Plains Hospital last month at 73.
“A life well lived… was just speaking with him about doing [Blue Jacket Fashion Show] … My heart is broken,” Anderson captioned a photo he posted after Talley’s death.
“To have become his friend and to have him embrace our charity was an honor,” Anderson told us.
Anderson co-founded Blue Jacket with producer Laura Miller. Mario Cantone, Al Roker, Musa Jackson, Don Lemon, Mickey Boardman, Omar Hernandez, Eric West, Marcus Samuelsson, Alex Lundqvist Nigel Barker and Page Six’s own Carlos Greer are some of the men who will walk in the show.
The event is sponsored by Janssen Oncology. Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit advocacy group ZERO: The End of Prostate Cancer and its commitment “to ending racial and health disparities in prostate cancer experienced by Black men” according to its press release.
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