From TheCut: Tyra Banks recently revealed that she toned down her look for the next season of America’s Next Top Model, in which André Leon Talley takes a seat on the judge’s panel for the very first time.
“This is the most clean you will ever see me in the history of ‘Top Model.’ I am wearing a chignon every single day. I went back to Yves Saint Laurent 1991, honey. I said, ‘This is André Leon Talley! No earrings, no nothing. Just me and the gahhment.’”
Last night following the Blonds’ fashion show, Jay Manuel explained,
“What she means by toned down is she wasn’t wearing any kind of weave pieces. She’s got her own natural hair. She’s still got a lot — she’s still got her makeup on and she’s still Tyra. But it’s kind of more that French sophistication as opposed to that kind of Tyra-fied look.”
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He also spoke on the new addition to the “Top Model” Team. While they were filming in New Zealand, André would visit showrooms of young designers and bring him back presents.
“He’d be out there and say, ‘Oh, these glasses are so Jay Manuel, he’s gotta have them.’ And I’d come back and they’d be in my trailer and I’d be like ‘André!’ He really is all-knowing. I mean, he’s super-articulate. He’s phenomenal. But I know with a lot of these fashion people we kind of think they’re snooty, it’s an elitist club, but he really isn’t. He’s a sweet pussycat — he’s not this big roar kind of like following Anna Wintour.”
at 1:34 pm
KINESHIA, you shouldn’t need someone else to represent women, you should be able to do these type of things on your own. I’m surprised I understood that pathetic excuse for a response though. If you’re the type that need someone to lead you by example, I’ll be happy to give you some grammar lessons.
at 4:53 pm
Now if Tyra was REALLY going ‘au natural’, she would also drop the contact lenses, eyelashes that are fake, the nails, the ’spanx’ (because they alter your natural body shape/size), and the Au Berain lip masque which makes her lips ‘fuller’ than usual…im just sayin…
at 1:44 pm
i dont know what the hell changed in me…because i wore all types of weaves straight from 6th grade to sophmore year of college…pitiful. now i could never see myself wearing them again…
but yea nothing wrong with them because who really gives a d*mn what other people wear on their head….
at 1:08 pm
WELL THANKGOd SOM1 Goin Natural!!! We Need More 2 Represent us And Dhow We ACTUALLY Do HAVe LonG HAIR And everybody DOESNT NeeD A wig or Tracks!!!!!!
at 12:50 pm
I dont see anything wrong with weaves..It doesnt mean black women are trying to be white (FYI: white women started wearing extensions FIRST because of the diseases they carried and were going bald!). I think weave could just mean a person wants to look or try something different that their natural hair just wont conform to. Might want a different color to their hair and dont want to put their own hair through that rigamarole of dyeing and processing etc…But to each his/her own..JMO