'This book was written not as a vendetta. It was a book that was written as an epistle of love to people who have mattered in my life,' OfficialALT said.
, reportedly called you a racial slur, the n-word. Themagazine piece cites your fond writing of de la Falaise as an inability to cease compartmentalizing your experiences with racism. But I think sometimes we have to compartmentalize those things in our memories. Do you view that sort of compartmentalization as a defense mechanism, or self preservation?
If I chose to walk away when I was told that someone called me “Queen Kong,” if I chose to forgive Loulou de la Falaise for using the term “n—r dandy,” I forgave because there were mountains of layers of complex relationships—with Loulou de la Falaise, particularly, that showed me that perhaps she was high on substances the point at which she said that at a party, a luncheon.
I think there is no denying that you exist in a pantheon of individuals, specifically black individuals, who have opened up space for others to join. As you write in your memoir, you are the only black person who has held the title of creative director atThat was historic, and I got there through many, many ladders. I had the rungs of the ladders and I climbed them. If I had that title, I deserved it because I was educated and very smart.
I set an example through all those great years of being the first black creative director. I set that example being at—which I’m very proud of, those great years. I set that example with Graydon Carter and Tina Brown atthat was long before there was a satire written by Alice Randall. That was one of the high moments of my life. I have it somewhere framed. Since that piece, Graydon and I have remained friends. I so admire what he’s done with. He controls his narrative.
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