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André Leon Talley Estate Sale The late André Leon Talley’s boundary-breaking fashion journalism helped people embrace and buy fashion, and Christie’s live sale Wednesday of things from his estate had an analogous effect. Interest in Talley’s life and influence on aspiring fashion and design professionals has continued since his death last yr on the age of 73. When the ultimate gavel was lowered Wednesday on the auction house’s Rockefeller Center outpost, the in-person sale of The Collection of André Leon Talley was a whole sellout. The entire tally was $1.38 million — well exceeding the presale estimate of $321,100 to $455,900 — and the entire lots were sold. Thirty percent of bidders were latest to Christie’s and greater than 40 percent of the...