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Butts said, “Many of you know that André didn’t want this. He was — with all of his flamboyance and all of his opulence and his ostentatiousness at times — he was a very humble, quiet and peaceful soul.”
Wintour, who first met Talley at Vogue, broke down in tears during her speech and was later consoled by her son Charlie Shaffer at length. Wintour said, “It always seemed to me diminishing to hear André described as the life of the party. He was life itself — alert to the beauty of passing moments and lasting relationships. Even to the perfect soft figure eight in a young woman’s hair. He changed my own life in ways that I can’t count, introduced me to remarkable people, helping me to recognize the excitement of new ideas and giving energy and sweetness to my time with those that I loved.
Playing the piano and offering this recollection as an introduction to “Ain’t Nothing But the Real Thing,” a song she co-wrote, Valerie Simpson said, “Last night I was at my club. It’s called the Sugar Bar and the highlight of the evening was a video by The New York Times of André and Whoopi Goldberg coming to the Sugar Bar after fashion week. See, he came to me to party. He would sit down right in front and he had a tambourine which he always played.
The supermodel said, “André anointed people by just showing up for them — no matter what. He not only pushed you to be the best version of yourself, he taught you how to do it. For so many of us, when you were starting off in this industry and you felt like you didn’t have a voice, André would often be that voice for us, asking valid questions, advocating on our behalf until we learned how to ask what we wanted ourselves.
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