OOZING COOL

Without Much Ado, André Leon Talley Takes Rightful Seat As Top Model Judge

NOT SURE WHAT KIND OF EXPLOSION I WAS EXPECTING, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF NEW America's Next Top Model judge André Leon Talley was kinda… meh.

Oh yes, he's fabulous in his trademark silk caftans, sitting regally with mixed gray fauxhawk and pursed lips. And Tyra tells the girls if they wanna really be on top, they need to impress him.

And I do love his colorful language. He calls one girl a "woodland fantasy nymph," and says another looks like a courtesan. She, of course, has no idea what he means. The girls are so young. He sees lyricism in a photo that all the other judges hate. He says he would hang it in his "salon."

Of course André Leon Talley has a salon while the rest of us spout our best ideas in "living rooms."

He introduces us to the term "dreckitude," meaning the chick's a wreck.

His praise of the despised hated photo saves a crying contestant from elimination and I hope she's grateful. He says she harkens back to Naomi Sims; She cries even more. He gets astonished and calls things gauche. The other poor guest judges, designer Rachel Roy and hairdresser Sally Hershberger, were left in the dust.

OK, maybe no so meh after all; he just played it cool.

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