Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley dead at 73

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Another fashion icon has left us. André Leon Talley has died at age 73. 

The former Vogue creative director and editor-at-large died Tuesday while in the hospital battling an unknown illness, TMZ reported. 

Talley’s illustrious career spans over multiple decades with stints at W magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, and the New York Times, however, it was his time with Vogue that he’s associated with most.

ALT began at the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine in the 1983 and worked his way up the ranks to creative director and the right hand man to editor-in chief Anna Wintour. In 1995, Talley left Vogue and moved to Paris, where he worked for W again before returning to Vogue three years later as the