Is Anna Wintour's crown slipping?

Mud-slinging is on trend in the northern summer, and the previously untouchable face of Vogue is squarely in her former colleagues' sights.

In happier times: Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Tally in 2007. Getty

Lisa Armstrong

May 21, 2020 – 6.59pm

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Oh dear. After years of omerta, it seems the glossy fashion world is turning in on itself. Andre Leon Talley, the 1.98-metre tall, one-time African-American creative director of US Vogue (a job title even he seems to have trouble explaining but which seemed to involve "being Anna Wintour's eyes", presumably in case her own went on strike, and accompanying her to couture fittings) has gone rogue with The Chiffon Trenches, a tell-all autobiography in which he writes, inter alia, "I don't think she's capable of kindness."

And it's not just Leon Talley who has decided that what happens on the top floors of Conde Nast should no longer stay on the top floors.

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