Can a pretty girl get a break in Washington?
If Saturday night’s “America’s Next Top Model” tryouts were any indicator, we say: fat chance (oops, pardon
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the pun).
“They were all a little too heavy to really be models,” said event judge Christine Brooks Cropper, co-founder of the Washington, D.C., Fashion Council. While three locals were invited to compete in the next round, Cropper said, “I don’t think any of them would really make it” as a professional model.
The ladies strutted their stuff on the runway at Chloe, a cozy lounge in Adams Morgan. Promoters sent the lines of hopeful models and attendees home with goodie bags filled with fashion store gift certificates and bottles of Smart Water, which the girls heartily hawked on the catwalk.
“Where are all the models?” one tattooed patron asked. “The girl in the blue dress? Too tan. Pale is where it’s at.”
Ouch.
Still, not everyone was as catty as could be. Denim Bar owner Mauro Farinelli (clad in a snazzy pair of his own spray-painted-on orange jeans) could see some of the models “living next door” to him, although we weren’t really sure whether that was meant to be a compliment.
What did Katy Jackman, one of three winners flying to the City of Angels to compete in the next round, have to say about vamping for the time?
“I’m never going to lose 50 pounds,” she told Yeas & Nays. “Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”
Right on, sister.
