Should ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Have Tried Harder to Include a Curvy Contestant?
Like affirmative action, but for reality TV.
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Can Rita Ora and Ashley Graham Make America’s Next Top Model Great Again?
The new ANTM will air on VH1 and has all the makings of a hit.
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Who’s Really Driving the Thin Trend? Some Believe Consumers Want to See More Body Diversity
Another perspective on what shoppers want.
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Ugh Fine, I’ll Start Watching ANTM Again: Boys to Join Top Model
I'd been really proud of myself for abstaining from America's Next Top Model all season. Cycle 19 is the first that I've ever missed ever, and let me tell you: it's better on the other side. The other side is all prairie fields and butterflies and rainbows. Life without Tyra Banks is, as it turns […]
Read moreSh*t P’Trique Says When He’s Shooting an ANTM Promo Video with Tyra Banks
P'Trique is a bearded, larger-than-life man who got famous by doing several "totes amaze" imitations of a superficial fashion girl on YouTube. Tyra Banks is a former supermodel who got famous for "smizing" in photographs and walking in runway shows and stayed famous by creating her own reality television show called America's Next Top Model. […]
Read moreTyra Banks’ Self-GIFS: We Don’t Really Need ‘Em
Tyra Banks has gotten into the GIF game, so if you've ever wanted to see an animated image of the America's Next Top Model host looking up at the sunset and pondering the meaning of life, this is a good day to be you. But for the rest of us: as much as we might […]
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Tyra Banks Says She Once Wanted to Quit ANTM
Once upon a time, Tyra Banks was a supermodel — full stop. Being a supermodel is a pretty big accomplishment, but Tyra's ambition was yet greater, and so she decided to produce her own television show. America's Next Top Model is a swell show in many ways, but after nineteen seasons of campy photoshoots and […]
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Nigel Barker to Host Naomi Campbell’s Modeling Competition, ‘The Face’
When it was announced that America's Next Top Dreamhunk Nigel Barker would be leaving his long-held seat at the America's Next Top Model judging panel, I thought that the rupture would be too much for the former fashion photographer to withstand, and he'd float out into oblivion. But Barker has a new gig, and it's […]
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Tyra Banks to Open a Girls Empowerment Center, Win Back My Love
It's pointless to talk about America's Next Top Model as a formulaic show: the formula is the whole point, the greatest source of pleasure for longtime viewers of the the show (which is why the firing of cast members Nigel Barker and the Jays seems so unconscionable). None of the winners ever live up to […]
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Twitterati #Fashion Recap: Vera Wang Shows Red During Bridal Week, Tyra Fires Everybody, and More
Read this week's fashionable recap according to the hottest celebrities, top editors, and most followed bloggers.
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Tyra Banks Fires Nigel Barker and the Jays from ANTM
Loyal America's Next Top Model fans might have a hard time processing this news: Tyra Banks has fired Nigel Barker, J. Alexander, and Jay Manuel. All three cast members have been staples of the show since the series premiere in 2003: Nigel Barker sat with Tyra on judges panel, looked dreamy; Jay Manuel directed all […]
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