So you believe it's a bad thing for Tyra to give a positive body image to younger girls? Even though I agree that the high fashion standarts are what they are, we're not forced to accept everything, especially when the heath of people is in danger: because the current runway models' body image is really not realistic or positive for that matter so I personally applaud Tyra for wanting to change this image, just like Marc Jacobs did for the casting of Louis Vuitton show or V or Cosmo magazines recently
If Tyra were really interested in changing this image, she would create her own fashion magazine and regularly use the contestants from America's Next Top Model on the cover. She would also find designers - desperate enough for publicity to be associated with this series - to appear on each episode and agree to hire the contestants that passed some sort of challenge.
Flooding the markert with laughable winners (Whitney, Saleisha) and eliminating girls that actually have the right look very early on (Lauren Brie, Gabrielle) do nothing to lend itself to the credibility of America's Next Top Model and everything to make it harder for the legitimate winners (Nicole, Dani) to get work.
Tyra might also try sending the message that women come in a variety of shapes and sizes instead of just her real! women! have! curves! shtick. Real women come in all shapes and sizes.
she wasn't booked for that shoot by the producers of antm or tyra banks as a prize for antm, her being in that shoot had nothing to do with antm...so that's not associating yourself with the show itself. He happend to choose someone who had appeared on the show. He chose her for whatever reason, probably more or less as a filler, but he still chose her on his own terms not tyra or some pannel of judges...sooooo, i highly doubt that he would directly tie himself to antm. I mean what does that say for the magazine...be on americas next top model and you can win a cover of vogue shot by steven miesel ha, not likely to happen. I mean if he doesnt like the girl he isnt going to shoot her, so its unlikely hes going to shoot some random wannabe model from a realtiy show, and if he does the winner will have obviously been chosen from the very start...
Seeing as how Tocarra had more pages than any other model, including Naomi, in the all-black issue of Vogue Italia I have to say that I doubt she was considered filler. Steven Meisel met Tocarra at a party and liked her and chose her for the magazine over the initial objections of the Editor-in-Chief of VI. Tocarra was
never filler.
FYI...the winner is chosen from the start today.
I am not so sure about IMG being a good choice of agency. They were a part of the prize for Cycle 2 and never really seemed to do much for Yoanna. Their board is too big. I think a smaller agency, like Muse, would be a better choice for the winner.
I am interested to see if this changes the calibre of winner that America's Next Top Model select. It's been said that CoverGirl, and not the agency, has the largest say in who ultimately wins. I would think that neither VI nor Meisel would agree to this unless they had some say in who was chosen as the winner as well.
Tyra actually does have a good eye. Cycles 9 and 10 had some great talent (Lisa, Jenah, Chantal, Anya, Fatima, Katarzyna). It's just that the contestant with the best chance of making it as a model is never chosen as the winner.
According to my reprint edition of the all-black issue of Vogue Italia, that was the first ever issue of the magazine that sold out and had to be reprinted to meet demand. I wonder if Franca agreed to this with the idea that she might able to do the same with a pop culture edition with Tyra + model wanabee on the cover?
, i highly doubt that he would directly tie himself to antm, i mean what does that say for the magazine...be on americas next top model and you can win a cover of vogue shot by steven miesel ha, not likely to happen, i mean if he doesnt like the girl he isnt going to shoot her, so its unlikely hes going to shoot some random wannabe model from a realtiy show, and if he does the winner will have obviously been chosen from the very start...
This is the worst news I've heard lately, I mean great models like Abbey Lee or Natasha Poly with no cover but now some random model of ANTM will get one!!
