{"product_id":"the-chiffon-trenches-a-memoir-book","title":"The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/em\u003eBESTSELLER • From the pages of \u003cem\u003eVogue \u003c\/em\u003eto the runways of Paris, this deeply revealing memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Chiffon Trenches\u003c\/em\u003e honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at \u003cem\u003eInterview,\u003c\/em\u003e a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s \u003cem\u003eWomen’s Wear Daily,\u003c\/em\u003e befriending fashion's most important designers (Halston, Yves , Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves sent him back to New York and into the offices of \u003cem\u003eVogue \u003c\/em\u003eunder Grace Mirabella.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Chiffon Trenches \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoven throughout the book are also André’s own personal struggles that have impacted him over the decades, along with intimate stories of those he has turned to for inspiration (Diana Vreeland, Diane von Fürstenberg, Lee Radziwill, to name a few), and of course his Southern roots and ongoing faith, which have guided him since childhood.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe result is a highly compelling read that captures the essence of a world few of us will ever have real access to, but one that we all want to know oh so much more about.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"penguin group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44070018744383,"sku":"yzm1791354534912","price":21.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/7187\/6415\/files\/the-chiffon-trenches-a-memoir-book_1.jpg?v=1791354539","url":"https:\/\/fieldora.shop\/products\/the-chiffon-trenches-a-memoir-book","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}