André Leon Talley scorches Anna Wintour in new memoir

It turns out the devil might actually wear Prada after all. Or at least she does if you believe some of the things Anna Wintour’s old bestie, former Vogue Editor-At-Large André Leon Talley, has to say about his previous boss in his new memoir, The Chiffon Trenches. Talley doesn’t exactly hold back in the scathing book, revealing that his relationship with Wintour was just as rocky as the one played by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in the fictional 2006 film based on the fashionable people. Actually, it might be even rockier.Of course that relationship is now over, which Talley makes clear in his rants about how Wintour pushed him out of Vogue for being “too old, overweight, and uncool.” But the strife started way before the 70-year-old’s podcast disappeared or he lost his red carpet interview spot to YouTuber Liza Koshy. According to Talley things have always been hot-and-cold with the fashion magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.[video_embed id='1939862']RELATED: Anna Wintour confirms she wears sweatpants in isolation[/video_embed]“She is immune to anyone other than the powerful and famous people who populate the pages of Vogue,” Talley writes in the upcoming memoir, as per The Daily Mail. “After decades of loyalty and friendship. Anna should have had the decency and kindness to call me or send me an email saying: ‘André, I think we have had a wonderful run with your interviews, but we are going to try something new.’ I would have accepted that… I understand; nothing lasts forever. Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable… I wonder, when she goes home alone at night, is she miserable? Does she feel alone?”There’s sure to be many more passages of note once the book launches in September, but from the snippets released so far one thing is for sure: this guy is very much in his feelings over the way he was treated. He and Wintour were friends for decades, after all. He was one of the few people invited to her wedding, he held her (one time) after her mother passed away, and when Talley began to gain weight Wintour staged an intervention alongside his friends Oscar de la Renta and his wife, and helped send him to a weight-loss centre.“Anna is so powerful and busy; she simply put me out of her existence. Now she treats me as a former employee, brief greetings, never anything more than perfunctory salutations,” Talley wrote, adding that he didn’t receive a birthday greeting for the first time in years in 2018, and his own happy birthday email to Wintour went unreturned. She left “huge emotional and psychological scars,” he adds.Wintour’s chilly rep is definitely as famous as she is, but this is probably the first time someone in her inner circle is speaking out with so much detail. Meanwhile Talley also confirms the stories that Wintour’s former assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote in the 2003 novel The Devil Wears Prada.According to the report in Daily Mail, Talley says there were expense accounts for everything and that Wintour sent all of her clothes (except her underwear) out for dry cleaning. He also notes that Wintour’s kitchen is spotless because she never cooks, and that she did in fact have one of her two assistants bring her a mockup of the current issue of Vogue each morning alongside flowers, gifts, and all of her clean clothes. Sounds like the dream gig.Talley also recalls staff meetings that lasted no more than eight minutes (15 minutes and you knew something was “seriously wrong”), and that on lunch dates it wasn’t uncommon for Wintour to announce she wanted to go back to the office before the food even came. Through it all, it seems like what Talley misses most is his friend, and all he really wants is for them to reconcile.“My hope is that she will find a way to apologize before I die, or if I linger on incapacitated before I pass, she will show up at my bedside, with an extended hand clasped into mine and say: 'I love you. You have no idea how much you have meant to me',” he writes. “Not a day goes by when I do not think of Anna Wintour.”[video_embed id='1944882']BEFORE YOU GO: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez pictured breaking physical-distancing policies[/video_embed]