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graceful loser.(losing weight)(Column)

Vogue

| April 01, 2005 | Talley, Andre Leon | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Andre Leon Talley

In my favorite photograph of myself, taken by Arthur Elgort when I was 39, I walk proud and thin down

Fifth Avenue in my best Huntsman suit and crocodile shoes. I keep that photograph on my mantel. Not long ago, some friends were visiting, and they both thought it was a picture of Denzel Washington.

Once, in other words, I was a devoted dandy, a man with a lean Jack-and-the-Beanstalk frame.

But in the last decade, sadly, I have been overcome with excess adipose flesh. I have been overtaken by a bloated orca shape-a shape I so gingerly have tried to conceal under voluminous and flowing capes and coats. (Like ...

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