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Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has died at 73 ... TMZ has learned.

A source with direct knowledge tells us Vogue's former creative director and one-time editor-at-large passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains, NY. It's currently unclear exactly what he was battling in the hospital.

Talley was instrumental to Vogue's vision and direction in the '80s and '90s, when he worked his way up the magazine ranks to eventually become the news director -- which he helmed from '83 to '87 -- and then ascended to Vogue's creative director in '88.

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Rip to him

If you enjoyed fashion history, the man was very interesting. I would have loved to meet him. I was amazed at how many models of the 1990’s didn’t mention his name when he died. Maybe they didn’t take kindly to his dramatic style. That was him though. He adored the fabrics themselves as well as the styles; the whole thing.