America's Next Top Model

Liya Kebede landed the top spot on the much-heralded issue's fold-out cover, and Meisel has over 100 pages of his work in the mag. Not too shabby.

Photographer Danielle Levitt is a downtown talent known for her hipster photography and personal style. And she's a bit of a disco queen. Find out what she can't live without.

Last night we caught up with the ladies just an hour before Whitney was announced as a winner. They told us what cycle ten was really like.

Miss Tyra threw us a curveball, crowning the first plus-size winner of 'ANTM'! But was Whitney the best or just a pretty victim of political pandering? The Fugs are on it.

As tonight's finale looms, there's a lot at stake for the lucky winner — but just who will go home with the crown is going to be a tough call. Not even flirty Nigel is playing favorites.

Vanessa Paradis will replace Kirsten Dunst as the face of Miu Miu; 'America's Next Top Model' lands another season, as the lead in to the CW's new fashion-assistant reality show; and Jessica Stam explains the whole D.J. thing.

Gwen Stefani's new set of fragrances represents her and each of her Harajuku dancers. Plus, more counterfeit stings and Armani finally launches luggage — in croc no less...

The CW plans to run America's Next Top Model for at least two more cycles after this current run, but Tyra Banks may not stick around for it. She wants to be taken seriously, you know!

We can officially confirm this season of America's Next Top Model is going to be awesome. Perhaps even off the chain. The Post reports that the show's fourteen contestants trashed the $6 million Tribeca loft they lived in for ten weeks:

News flash! We have officially confirmed noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker does in fact have a soul. Also, Tyra might want to practice introducing him as "noted fashion-slash-nature photographer," as we've just learned Barker has embedded with the Humane Society and selflessly flung himself into the cold nether regions of Eastern Canada to photograph fluffy, white baby harp seals.

• Wipe that sweat off your brow. Even thought the CW's ratings are floundering, America's Next Top Model has been renewed for its eleventh and twelfth cycles because it's the channel's most-watched program. Obvi. [WP]

• Karl Lagerfeld video alert! The Feldinator says he doesn't design for emerging markets, but for the future. Ooooh. Why "flatter" the customer because they want the designer's vision? Wise words, Karl. [WSJ] • America's Next Top Model is hiding the photos of select winners past in the house. Also, last night's guest judge Paulina Porizkova was amazing. [Jezebel]

Once upon a time a blogger went to a Victoria's Secret makeup event. And Heidi Klum was there. Yay! And she had some tips on what to do with your face when you're walking the red carpet, which you obviously do every day:

As we watched the parade of sob stories and screeching girls on Wednesday night's premiere of America’s Next Top Model, it got us all misty and nostalgic for the knuckleheads of yore. How much more poetic if Tyra Banks had used her tenth — tenth! — cycle to celebrate the nutjobs who got her there?

Roberto Cavalli is on the fast track to becoming fashion's Hugh Hefner: He's often embedded in a throng of hot ladies, and WWD reports today that not only is he opening nightclubs around the world, but Cavalli also has a television show in the works.

The Daily News has a random ode to Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks today. The article praises them for "doing things they're actually good at" after their modeling careers began to fizzle:

Tyra Banks's latest reality venture, Fashionista, in which contestants compete to become the next top fashion assistant (oh, the glory of it all!), is currently casting — we submitted our application and have yet to be called upon, sniff, but we hear producers are plucking potential cast members right off New York streets.

There’s nothing like bookending day one with a pair of genuine national treasures: Liza Minnelli at breakfast time, and come supper, that deeply understated legend of Lycra-blend we call Kimora Lee Simmons. Tonight’s Baby Phat show was everything we’ve come to expect from the exceedingly subtle model turned designer, right down to the feathered hot pants, visible garter belts, and getups that felt inspired by Atonement via a few head injuries and maybe a martini.