September is the most anticipated month/issue for all fashion mags, but for the revamped W the anticipation has been about much more than counting ad pages and fawning over fall pictorials. The issue is the official debut by new EIC Stefano Tonchi, who left T magazine to take post at the floundering big book....
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Who knew MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had to ability to influence anything fashion-related (we love you Rachel, but um…). It turns out Andre Leon Talley coined his term “drecktitude” after watching an episode of TRMS. If Talley’s term wasn’t already common knowledge, it will be after the 14th cycle of America’s Next Top Model. The...
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Every cycle host, producer, and overall model extraordinaire does at least one shoot with the model wannabes in which she is the photographer. Wednesday’s episode was that shoot and Super Tyra photo’d the models as bird-like creatures in the Brazilian jungle. I wasn’t all that disappointed to see Celia go, but I was disappointed...
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Among my early favorites, only Celia remains among the Cult favored, while Fo has pulled ahead to take the top spot. The mixed race model is the shortest of the bunch, but seems to have the biggest on screen presence. Her interpretation of the Carmen Miranda shoot was very literal, but it works. See...
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My favorites from week 6(?) – in order of preference.
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It never takes longer than a couple episodes to see who the stand outs are on America’s Next Top Model. As usual, there’s a handful of pretty girls that just can’t seem to get it through their perfectly symmetrical skulls that modeling is more than just being genetically blessed. They are promptly getting weeded...
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