Fashion journalist and icon André Leon Talley has died at 73

André Leon Talley, a former editor at large for Vogue magazine, speaks to a reporter at the opening of the "Black Fashion Designers" exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York on Dec. 6, 2016.

Fashion journalist and icon André Leon Talley died at a hospital in White Plains, New York, Tuesday. He was 73.

For decades, he was the larger-than-life creative director and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine, considered the fashion bible.

At 6′ 6″, Talley held court in the world of high fashion. Wearing dapper bespoke suits, robes, capes and caftans, he was regal presence. “You can be aristocratic without having been born into an aristocratic family,” he would say.