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Tyra Banks is having a boy! A Bryanboy to be exact. The Filipino blogger has packed his bags and is off to L.A. to join the 800th 19th cycle of America’s Next Top Model.
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- The babies keep rolling out as Julia Restoin-Roitfeld has given birth to daughter Romy Nicole Konjic with longtime boyfriend, Robert Konjic. [Vogue UK]
- Gap placed actual T-shirts on its billboard at Lafayette Street in Manhattan, thus testing the ingenuity of would-be thieves. Challenge accepted. [Racked]
- This is a teaser poster for the upcoming Anchorman sequel, Anchorman: The Legend Continues. You’re welcome, San Diego. [ONTD!]
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Tyra better watch her back because there’s a new Top Model in town. Naomi Campbell is finally making her panther-like stride onto reality TV as a model mentor on Oxygen‘s The Face.
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- Tyra Banks addressed the recent mass firing on America’s Next Top Model saying that they’ve “reached a point where we feel that the show just needs a new boost.” Yeah, and that boost was called André Leon Talley, after which Top Model should’ve smized its last smize and hunched into obscurity. [The Cut]
- Now that motherhood has her feeling “more beautiful than…ever,” People has acknowledged Beyoncé’s newfound hubris by naming her the “World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” It also didn’t hurt that she’s back to her pre-baby weight. I guess taking that cushion out from under her Dereon was a laborious process. #Kidding #NotReally [People]
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- Demi Moore has reportedly turned to Oprah for some tender, love and care following her stint in rehab and split from Ashton Kutcher, citing the big O’s help in getting Jennifer Aniston back on her feet after Brad Pitt dumped her for that Jolie woman. Oprah will in turn have dibs on Demi’s first post-rehab interview/soul. [Page Six]
- You know who knows how to properly celebrate 420? Rihanna. Aside from rolling a blunt on a bald man’s head — while in Chanel no less — she also puffs with the mightiest lungs in America, if not the world, Snoop Dogg himself. No wonder she ran out of fucks to give…she never had any to begin with. [Buzzfeed]
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- ”People have never looked so ugly… We are so conformist, nobody is thinking. I’m a fashion designer and people think ‘what do I know?’ but I’m talking about all this disposable crap. So I’m saying buy less, choose well, make it last.” — delightful harridan Vivienne Westwood. [Guardian]
- Speaking of delightful harridans, these paper dolls of Dame Maggie Smith‘s sublime Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey are everything. Ever. [Vulture]
- America’s Next Top Model is still happening. Now in its 18th cycle, this time around it’s a “British Invasion” with seven British models versus seven American models. Sort of like a 21st century Revolutionary War with bikinis and smizing. [The Cut]
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You can’t keep a good gay down. At least that’s what I took away from the season finale of VICE‘s Fashion Week Internationale on Nigeria, a country of enormous civil unrest and institutionalized homophobia. However, while same sex marriage is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, hostess with the mostest Charlet Duboc learned that to get ahead in the burgeoning Nigerian fashion industry — or anywhere in Nigeria, for that matter — it (allegedly) behooves one to be a friend of Dorothy. Duboc couldn’t help but notice this conflicting duality which seems to mark the entire country during her time in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city:
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- The Twitterverse rejoiced after learning that Michelle Obama has joined the social media giant. And while the actual account will be run by the Fierce Lady’s team, her personal tweets will be lovingly signed, “MO.” With the hashtag: #HBIC [MOBama's Twitter]
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2012 is here and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s The End Times. But besides stocking your bomb shelters with all 85 cycles of America’s Next Top Model, it’s time to get a new calendar — you know, those things people used to use before the advent of computers and cellular telephones. Of course, there are any number of options for the schedule-loving, date-forgetting, appointment-missing almanac admirer, so this Male Model Humpday we highlight the best and hunkiest calendars to get you over every hump 2012 has to offer.
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Caped crusader, Vogue editor and Top Model judger André Leon Talley has curated the first exhibit to be featurd in the André Leon Talley Gallery of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Talley, a board member of the college, will focus the exhibit on past recipients of the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award. And next year, SCAD’s just going to throw up its figurative hands and rename itself the André Leon Talley College of Art, Design and Openly Yelling in People’s Faces.
