In my book, Tim Gunn is the most gracious and honest man on earth. So when Tim Gunn writes something in his book, I believe it! His book, Gunn’s Golden Rules, is out and with it all the juicy insider details.
Gunn tells the tale of Anna Wintour and her great(?) exit from the Peter Som show at the Metropolitan Pavilions fifth-floor.
I was with a colleague from Parsons, and we had been discussing the will-she-or-won’t-she-take-the-elevator question, so we ran over to the elevator bay to see if Anna would deign to get on. She wasn’t there. Then we looked over the stairway railing. And what did we see but Anna being carried down the stairs. The bodyguards had made a fireman’s lock and were racing her from landing to landing. She was sitting on their crossed arms.
He also describes another incident where he witnessed André Leon Talley being hand fed by an assistant.
When we return to the green room, we see that someone has spread a translucent barber’s bib over Andre and he’s reclining, his arms at his sides. He’s being fed grapes and cubes of cheese one by one, like a bird in a nest.
I doubt he has anything personal against the two. Like us, he’s probably just shocked by the behavior the two seemingly dignified adults were exhibiting.
