NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Tyra Banks attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Tyra was the first Black woman to land the SI Swimsuit cover, so of course she's here. And of course she looks like she did her makeup by reaching into her charcoal grill and rubbing the detritus all over her eyelids.
Chrissy Teigen
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Chrissy Teigen attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Chrissy's outfit is really cute. I don't love her cover; honestly, I'm not sure how good a model I actually think she is, although I am sure I'm in the minority on that.
Hunter McGrady
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Hunter McGrady attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Kate Upton (L) and Lily Aldridge attend the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Kate has done the cover four times, including this year. LIly's dress is more interesting to me for NOT trying to look like a swimsuit.
Gayle King
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Gayle King attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Gayle loves a colorful print, but she maybe could've avoided one that looks like someone threw paint on her? She is your final model this year is Gayle, whose photo kind of looks like nobody checked to see if her hair and makeup were done. That suit is cute though.
Molly Sims
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Molly Sims attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Launch Party at Hard Rock Hotel on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
This seems like a very unsurprising choice of outfit for a swimsuit party.
Jasmine Sanders
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Jasmine Sanders attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Launch Party at Hard Rock Hotel on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
This is very... saloon proprietress, but make it fashion.
Madisin Rian
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Madisin Rian attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
If you have to drape yourself in fur to survive being out and about in your pleather bikini, maybe... go shopping?
Achieng Agutu
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Achieng Agutu attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
I cannot pretend to know what this is, but if she can use those two divots to hold champagne flutes, then it's all good.
Sixtine Rouyre
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Sixtine Rouyre attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Will she change her name to Seventine next year?
Roshumba
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Roshumba Williams attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
There are so many good elements here, but that harness is sadly not one of them.
Camille Kostek
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Camille Kostek attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Oooh, this looks great on her.
Leyna Bloom
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Leyna Bloom attends the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2024 Issue Release and 60th Anniversary Celebration at Hard Rock Hotel New York on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
Leyna is the first trans woman to hit the cover, and I am with her here right until the thick plastic shoes. We were 95 percent there.
Danielle Herrington
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Danielle Herrington attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
She became the third Black woman to be on the cover, behind Tyra and Beyonce. That's pretty good company. I hope they all went out for cocktails. I also hope the bandages holding her dress together hung in there.
Halima Aden
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Halima Aden attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
She was the first model to wear a hijab on the mag. I wish there was a little more coordination throughout here, or maybe... some unifying sparkle, or something.
Georgina Burke
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Georgina Burke attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Usually the nipple flowers are on the INSIDE.
Martha
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Martha Stewart attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
And here we have our oldest model; she was on the cover last year and is on it again this year in a group shot, I believe, of the legends? She looks very... taupe.
Chanel Iman
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Chanel Iman attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Ehhh. That top part looks like it's clamped there, somehow.
Brooks Nader
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Brooks Nader attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launch party at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/FilmMagic)
Girl, no.
Christie Brinkley
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Christie Brinkley attends the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Launch Party at Hard Rock Hotel on May 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)