One Wednesday in Bangkok
Tonight on America's Next Top Model we'll see if the commercial enterprise otherwise known as Tyra Banks can give us a compelling reason to feature Bangkok as the ANTM cycle six destination. And no, the fact that Bangkok hosts a Fashion Week doesn't cut it.
Obviously, we understood Paris and Milan as cast destinations. We also got Tokyo and London. But Bangkok? It's about as loopy as proposing Cape Town as a global fashion capital, which, incidentally, Tyra & company did in a previous cycle.
Look, we love Bangkok. And don't misunderstand us. We're happy to recognize a dynamic fashion scene anywhere. But isn't the point of ANTM to put contestants in situations that successful models would likely face, like being herded through one of the world's actual fashion centers?
Haw. We know that ANTM is a grooming ground for future minor media figures before anything resembling modeling boot camp. Generic entertainment industry success is the clear payoff.
Cycle three runner-up YaYa Da Costa Johnson is the most successful contestant in the history of the series not because she's on fashion magazine covers but because she's all over television and theatre screens, doing that Radio Shack ad and appearing in this movie.
[image via benspear/Flickr]
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