Ashley Graham
Ashley wore this to the house for an intimate talk with the girls about unconventional beauty and bravery and whatnot, and... I mean, it IS intimate, in the sense that her ENTIRE CHEST is pouring out of it like Niagara Falls in summer. Besides which, the necklaces look like dog collars. I just want to scream, AGAIN, that she doesn't have to try this hard. I get that for a long time she was told to change and this is probably her way of throwing in people's short-sighted faces that she is here and successful despite all their negativity, but: She is also sexy without having to scream it from the rooftops EVERY SINGLE TIME.
with Patrick Starr
Patrick Starr looks FAB, and Ashley is wearing a jean jacket that has been tortured.
Tyra
Tyra, meanwhile, has a knot in her hair.
And a dress that is attached to her wrists. HER SKIRT IS A BRACELET.
Ashley
I wish I could see the rest of this orange-bronze thing, but I'm just pleased that for once it's an actual top.
Drew Elliott
I really like Drew on this show. He's with Paper magazine, and in this shot, he looks like he's just been given a medal for coming in second at the skating nationals and it slipped underneath his warm-up jacket.
But can we PLEASE discuss what Front Row Third From Left is wearing? TO PANEL? If I remember right, they didn't even call her out on it. (I hope I am NOT remembering right.) That is some Guest At The Show Of a Very Low-Level Designer At Los Angeles Fashion Week in 2008 stuff.
She went with this the next week, which is... different, and looks like she made the top from a bunch of socks she was unable to complete.
This is the full collection of goofballs.
Jeana
This is the model who has alopecia. They made her cut the cord on her wigs, and she cried -- all that was under there was wisps -- but then they shaved her head and SHE LOOKS AMAZING. Seriously, with the wig she looked ten years older, and here she looks perfect. It takes guts, because I think a lot of people associate beauty with their hair and there's a lot of self-esteem tied up in that, which I completely understand and which happens to me too. But WOW. I hope she never worries again, because she was born to look like that.
Tyra really... went for it... with this jumpsuit. It's very genie-esque.
She is also having a Blair Waldorf headband kind of moment.
And, Ashley went for another lace-up pirate-wench situation.
Law Roach
To reach out to and calm Jeana, Law came out for judging without HIS wigs. He talked about how he used to be oveweight and tried to hide it with a lot of different trappings, and then lost the weight but still feels reliant on those things. I have to say: He ALSO looks amazing without the long hair and I hope he does this more often. How handsome he is.
Drew
And Drew, it turns out, has vitiligo -- aka the pigmentation situation made famous by Michael Jackson. He apparently covers it with makeup most of the time, but he did judging without it this particular week. It was actually pretty cool, and I also think it was the moment every other girl in that house thought, "Oh, unless she REALLY f's it up, Jeana is going win this whole thing."
Tyra
Naturally, Tyra had to whip out some pizza lace. Because of course.
Ashley in Monse
And Ashley has another shirt that's trying to pull itself apart. Oh, MONSE. Why must you happen to good people.
Here's the crew. Shanice is over there on the right looking awesome in her jumpsuit, and then we've got unholy holey tights and a skirt with a chunk torn out of it, and then the woman back there in the gold overall shorts? She's 42. I get that she's in a house with a bunch of Youngs, but come on now. You look like you're at a costume party. ... Oh wait, you kind of are.
Better? Although that one skirt in the front row is Kardashian-level tight.
Tyra really brought the vamp sparkle.
Law, back to glasses and wigs (you do what you need to do, Law, but please know I meant it when I said you looked utterly dreamy without them), has a shirt patterned with safety pins, which I love.
And Ashley looks like a million bucks in something recognizably human.
And Tyra staring RIGHT at ALL OF YOU is chilling in the best way. I think she is implanting herself in your subconscious right now. Watch the show or Ty will COME FOR YOU THERE.