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America's Next Top Model Season 23
The twenty-third cycle of ''America's Next Top Model'' premiered on December 12, 2016, on VH1. It was the first cycle to air on the network following the series' cancellation by The CW. As opposed to the past three cycles, this cycle followed the series' original format of an all-female contest. The cycle was presented by British singer Rita Ora, who took over from former model and businesswoman Tyra Banks. The judging panel was fully revamped, consisting of model Ashley Graham, ''Paper'' magazine chief creative officer Drew Elliott, and celebrity stylist Law Roach, replacing the previous panel consisting of Banks, fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone, and runway coach J. Alexander. Banks still served as the series' executive producer. The winner of the competition was 20-year-old India Gants from Seattle, Washington, with Tatiana Price placing as the runner up. Prizes * A fashion spread in ''Paper'' magazine. * A talent contract with VH1. * A contract with Rimmel London cosmet ...
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Darien, Connecticut
Darien ( ) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under , it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast (Connecticut), Gold Coast. Situated on the Long Island Sound between the cities of Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, Norwalk, Darien is a commuter town for New York City. There are two railroad stations in Darien, Noroton Heights station, Noroton Heights and Darien station, Darien, linking the town to Grand Central Terminal. History According to early records, the first clearings of land were made by men from the New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven and Wethersfield, Connecticut, Wethersfield colonies and from Norwalk, Connecticut, Norwalk in about 1641. It was not until 1739, however, that the Middlesex Society of the Town of Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford built the first community church, now the First Congregational Church of Darien, which stands on the original site ...
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Ellen Von Unwerth
Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954) is a German photographer. She began her career as a fashion model, before becoming a fashion, editorial, and advertising photographer. Early life and education Unwerth was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. As an orphan, during her early childhood, she often ended up in Bavarian foster care systems. Eventually, Unwerth was able to graduate high school in Munich, where she would work as a circus magician's assistant for three years. Modelling At the age of twenty while walking down the street, Unwerth was asked by a photographer if she ever thought about having a modeling career. She decided to give modeling a chance and moved to Paris where she had a successful modeling career for 7 years. Photography However, Unwerth felt that as a model, she did not have the freedom to decide where and how her image would be used. Her boyfriend at the time gave her a camera, leading to an impromptu photo shoot in Kenya by her of her model colleagues. When the p ...
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Pieter Henket
Pieter Henket (born January 21, 1979) is a Dutch photographer living and working in New York City. His notable work includes shooting the cover of Lady Gaga’s debut album The Fame, and photographing National Congolese acting out their mythologies in the Congo rainforest for the book '' Congo Tales'' published by Prestel Publishing in 2018. He is known for a photographic style that takes inspiration from the 17th century Dutch Golden Age of painting. Life and career Henket was born in Geldrop, Netherlands. He is the son of the Dutch architect Hubert-Jan Henket and the nephew of the Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen. After high school in the Netherlands, Henket moved to the States to take a three-month film course at the New York Film Academy, followed by a documentary-film-making course at the NYU film school. Shortly after, Henket got his start by interning for director Joel Schumacher. In 1999, he worked on the set of the film '' Flawless'', starring Robert De Niro and ...
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Zendaya
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( ; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. List of awards and nominations received by Zendaya, Her accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award. In 2022, ''Time (magazine), Time'' named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world. Born and raised in Oakland, California, Zendaya began her career as a child model and backup dancer. She made her television debut as Rocky Blue in the Disney Channel sitcom ''Shake It Up (American TV series), Shake It Up'' (2010–2013) and starred as K.C. in the channel's sitcom ''K.C. Undercover'' (2015–2018). Her feature film debut came in 2017 as MJ (Marvel Cinematic Universe), MJ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Spider-Man: Homecoming''; she later reprised her role in its sequels ''Spider-Man: Far from Home, Far from Home'' (2019) and ''Spider-Man: No Way Home, No Way Home'' (2021). Zendaya's performance as Rue Bennett, ...
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Stacey McKenzie
Stacey McKenzie (born March 27, 1977) is a Jamaican-born Canadian model, runway coach, motivational speaker, television personality, and actress. McKenzie has been a judge on the reality television shows ''America's Next Top Model'', ''Canada's Next Top Model'', and ''Canada's Drag Race''."Three fabulous judges, and one squirrel friend, are ready to preside over 'Canada's Drag Race'"
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Unprepared for the challenges of a modelling career, McKenzie returned to Canada to finish high school. Soon after that, she moved to Paris, France to pursue modelling further. D ...
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Canada's Next Top Model
''Canada's Next Top Model'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''CNTM'') is a Canadian reality television series in which female contestants compete for the title "Canada's Next Top Model" and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry. The winner receives a modeling contract from Elmer Olsen Modeling Agency, a $100,000 beauty contract from Procter & Gamble, and an editorial spread in ''Fashion magazine''. CNTM is based on the successful American franchise ''America's Next Top Model''. It is produced by Temple Street Productions in association with CTVglobemedia and CBS Paramount International TV. Three cycles have been produced and aired. Show format Each season of Canada's Next Top Model has eight episodes and starts with approximately ten contestants. Each episode, one contestant is eliminated, though in rare cases a double elimination or no elimination was given by consensus of the judging panel. Makeovers are administered to contestants early in the season (usually afte ...
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LaQuan Smith
in 2017 in Nigeria LaQuan Smith (born August 30, 1988) is an American fashion designer and founder and chief executive officer of womenswear clothing brand LaQuan Smith, LLC. He is based in New York City. Early life Smith was born on August 30, 1988, in Queens, New York. As he grew up, he developed a passion for fashion and design. He further developed his passion at the age of 13 when his grandmother passed on her old Singer sewing machine for him to use. From there, he began regularly designing and creating garments. In 2007, he graduated from Glasgow High School in Delaware. Shortly after, he began his career in fashion. Career In 2005, Smith applied to the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as Parsons School of Design, but was not accepted. Smith then began interning at the New York magazine ''BlackBook'' in 2007, working for celebrity fashion stylist Elizabeth Sulcer.LEAH CHERNIKOF, February 12, 2010, New York Daily NewsFashion designer LaQuan Smith, from Queens, ...
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Philipp Plein
Philipp Patrick Hannes Plein (born 16 February 1978) is a German fashion designer, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Philipp Plein International Group, which includes the Philipp Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaire brands. He is the founder and CEO of the Plein Group and of Plein Holding headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland, which specializes in the creation, manufacture and distribution of luxury goods. He is also the head designer of the brands Philipp Plein, Billionaire, Plein Sport and Plein Golf. Plein has an estimated net worth of Euro 800 million as of May 2023, according to Forbes magazine. Plein has been consistently listed as one of the 300 richest individuals in Switzerland in the annual reports published by Bilanz. In 1998, Plein registered the trademark Philipp Plein and founded his enterprise specializing in luxury goods. Early life Philipp Patrick Hannes Plein was born on 16 February 1978 in Munich, Bavaria Germany. His mother Hanne Plein–Dieth is a hou ...
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Queens
Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn and by Nassau County, New York, Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. Queens is one of the most linguistics, linguistically and ethnically diverse places in the world. With a population of 2,405,464 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Queens is the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second-most populous of the five New York City boroughs. If Queens were its own city, it would be the List of United States cities by population, fourth most-populous in the U.S. after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Queens is the fo ...
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ...
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and Northern California and the List of United States cities by population, 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of and is the county seat, seat of Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara County. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamyen people, Tamien nation of the Ohlone people San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the ''Pueblo de San José de Our Lady of Guadalupe, Guadalupe'', the first city founded in the Californias. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 after the Mexican Wa ...
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