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Larger-than-life fashion personality and former Vogue editor André Leon Talley has taken a new gig with Zappos. Talley will serve as the site's artistic director, overseeing new editorial including videos and fashion shoots debuting next month. He said that his goal of the one-year partnership is to, "create something unique, in terms of a Web magazine within the Zappos Couture Web site, that conveys the immediacy and excitement of luxury retail products, season by season." [WWD]