“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”

—  André Leon Talley

[United Press International, Vogue fat comment raises group's ire, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2005-09-19, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_375745.html, 2007-04-24]

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