Tyson Beckford Has Noticed the Way You Walk

Beckford, not walking.Photo: Getty Images
“I always see some girls where I'm like, ‘Man, give me five minutes with her, and I can make her a diva.’ You spend so much time having a friend like Naomi Campbell, and you see the excitement and energy when she walks, and you want to put that in everyone.” He's been trying in vain to get the guys on his show to walk with that same energy, but, he says, “I'm having such a hard time getting that into them!” The problem? They're not from here. “Because these are small-town boys, they don’t walk as much,” he says. “They jump in their cars and go. We, as New Yorkers, walk with a destination. And that’s what I try to tell them: ‘Walk with a destination.’” The cast, including Perry in all his deliciousness, have been trying to copy our moves. “They’ve already been walking around New York,” says Beckford. But he draws the line at forcing them to, you know, actually go somewhere with a purpose. “We’re not going to make them do something silly, like go fetch us a cake from Starbucks,” he says. “There’s too much fashion going on for that.” —Jada Yuan

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