behind the smize

Video: On the Set With Tyra Banks and André Leon Talley

Tyra Banks’s new online magazine TypeF.com is her biggest publishing venture to date. Created with Demand Media, the site launches Tuesday, with thousands of articles containing wardrobe, hair, and makeup tips for women of all shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. Tyra recruited America’s Next Top Model’s best judge ever, contributing Vogue editor André Leon Talley, to star with her in a series of videos for the site offering fashion advice, mini-fashion history lessons, and their signature shenanigans. We visited the set to watch the pair in action — which quickly escalated from Tyra sitting on ALT’s lap discussing one of her worst red carpet looks ever (pigtails!), to Tyra dropping it like it’s hot, to Tyra giving us our own personal smizing lesson (we passed, of course). See if you can learn anything about French pronunciation in the video.

Video: On the Set With Tyra Banks and André Leon Talley