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The real André Leon Talley |
As New York Fashion Week got underway on Friday, the (unwilling to be linked) Wall Street Journal offered advice to would-be gatecrashers at the see-and-be scene: beware the fashion police. Despite this imposing security detail, my own experience is that a determined fashionista can beg, buy, or sneak her way in with relative ease (assuming, of course, that a legitimate invitation is not forthcoming). It does, however, require a bit of advance research.
Impersonating fashion royalty might work for a lookalike — but it’s doubtful. And in the case of the WSJ’s “diminutive thirtysomething white woman” who claimed to be “Andrea Leon Talley,” it was definitely a howler.