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Tyra Lynne Banks is a retired American fashion model, television personality, talk show host, producer, author, actress, singer and businesswoman. She was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog, and a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. In 2003 she created and hosted America's Next Top Model. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of what she has been wearing.
Tyra Lynne Banks is a retired American fashion model, television personality, talk show host, producer, author, actress, singer and business woman.
When Banks was 15 years old, she started modeling while attending school in Los Angeles. She was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by L.A. Models and then switched to Elite Model Management at age 16. When she got the opportunity to model in Europe, she moved to Milan. In her first runway season, she was booked in 25 shows at the 1991 Paris Fashion Week. She would later appear on the covers of magazines such as Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Teen Vogue and Spanish Vogue. She walked the runways for Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Herve Leger, Valentino, Fendi, Isaac Mizrahi, Armani, Sonia Rykiel, Michael Kors and others. She has featured in advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Swatch, Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren, Got Milk?, Pepsi and Nike. In 1993, Banks signed a contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics, launching advertising campaigns for the cosmetics company. In the mid-1990s, Banks returned to America to do more commercial modeling.
Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 1997, she received the VH1 award for, "Supermodel of the Year". That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005. In 2010, Banks re-signed with her former modeling agency IMG Models. She has since started focusing on her film career and hosting her own TV show.
By the early 2000s, Banks was one of the top-earning models in the world. Subsequently she moved onto television and film, known for her roles as Eve in Disney channel's Life-Size, and Zoe in the box office hit Coyote Ugly. Banks first appeared on television on the show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and has since been featured in small roles in romantic film Love & Basketball, horror film Halloween: Resurrection, has appeared in numerous television shows, including Gossip Girl and Glee.
In 2003, Banks created and became the host of the UPN/the CW long-running reality television show America's Next Top Model. Banks was also the co-creator of True Beauty, and was the host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show, which aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative. She co-hosted the talk show FABLife.
In 2010, she published a young adult novel titled Modelland, based on her life as a model which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011.
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The Fullest Modelling Record in the Guide
Tyra Banks's biography is the most complete runway record on any page in this group, and it begins with rejection: started at 15 while attending school in Los Angeles, turned down by four modeling agencies before L.A. Models signed her, then a switch to Elite Model Management at 16 and a move to Milan when the European opportunity came. The first runway season that followed is quantified on the page — booked in 25 shows at the 1991 Paris Fashion Week — and the designer list that accumulated runs to Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Herve Leger, Valentino, Fendi, Isaac Mizrahi, Armani, Sonia Rykiel and Michael Kors, with covers of Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Teen Vogue and Spanish Vogue, and campaigns from Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger to Nike and Pepsi. A contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics followed in 1993.
Woven through the commercial record is a series of documented firsts: the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue; in 1997 the VH1 “Supermodel of the Year” award and the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog; a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005; and by the early 2000s one of the top-earning models in the world, re-signing with IMG Models in 2010. The second career is as large as the first: film roles from Eve in Disney's Life-Size to Zoe in Coyote Ugly, the creation and hosting of America's Next Top Model from 2003, the co-creation of True Beauty, five seasons of The Tyra Banks Show with two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative, the FABLife co-hosting seat, and a young adult novel, Modelland, that topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011. Model, then maker of modelling's biggest television format: the page documents both sides of the runway.
Resources on This Page
The resource list links the blog search for Tyra Banks, her Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts, and her Wikipedia and IMDb reference pages — no personal website is listed. Her page closes the T letter's topics: after six actresses, singers and one campaign model, the letter ends with the guide's most decorated model.
Common Questions
What firsts did Tyra Banks achieve in modelling?
Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and in 1997 she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005.
How did Tyra Banks's runway career begin?
She started modeling at 15, was rejected by four modeling agencies before she was signed by L.A. Models, switched to Elite Model Management at 16, and in her first runway season was booked in 25 shows at the 1991 Paris Fashion Week.
What television shows has Tyra Banks created or hosted?
In 2003, Banks created and became the host of the long-running reality television show America's Next Top Model. She was also the co-creator of True Beauty, and was the host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show, which aired for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy Awards.