Matthew phoned me with a funny story about his appearance as a guest judge on last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model. It’s funnier if he tells it in his own words…
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Matthew Rolston
“It was a very Matthew thing—when I arrived for the shoot of the judging panel, I brought my briefcase into the studio. Okay… so it’s not my first trip to the judging panel. Anyway, inside were two small portable LED fill lights, including color correction, and I literally sat down at the judges’ desk and put them in place.” He laughs. “The main reason I did it was to get a behind-the-scenes laugh from my fellow judges, Tyra Banks and Andre Leon Talley. Of course, it always helps to look your best.”
Afterward, Tyra said…
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“In all the years I’ve done this, no one has ever shown up with their own lights.” I said, “When it comes to fill light… don’t leave home without it.”
“The director didn’t seem to mind. I think he was also highly amused. He came up and said, ‘Hey, can I put a little diffusion on that for you?’ And I said, ‘Yes, please.’”
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Hilarious! And illuminating in more ways than one. As Andre Leon Talley recently quipped to a reporter, ““Not even Marlene Dietrich did this. This was beyond. It’s a new trend. Forget your makeup, take your own lighting. It worked.”
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On last night’s episode, the aspiring supermodels posed for Matthew for an underwater shoot…
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Matthew's photos from the underwater shoot on the Sept. 29 episode of "America's Next Top Model."
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Here’s a recap of the shoot, courtesy of the website Wetpaint.
“For this shoot, the models are supposed to imagine themselves as underwater sea goddesses. Draped in jewelry and octopi, each girl lays perfectly still on a contraption that rolls underneath a large tank of water. The Very Famous photographer Matthew Rolston takes photos from above. Rolston does thorough face examinations of the models beforehand, where he immediately zones in on the thing that is wrong with each of them. The major drama from the shoot comes from Liz’s complaints about her contacts, and it isn’t that major at all.”
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