There are fashion faux pas and there are fashion fuck-ups. This is a story about the latter. It happened last week when host Tyra Banks appeared on Dancing With the Stars in the most outrageous dress by Julian Mendez Couture.
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The frock immediately drew comparisons from viewers and internet trolls to a dinosaur in Jurassic Park. You know which one, don’t you? The little demon dino that killed Newman with poisonous spit.
Tyra Banks looking like she just killed Newman in Jurassic Park #DWTS pic.twitter.com/ry5anWgTaT
— Tim Wronka (@TimWronka) September 28, 2021
Who wore it best? @tyrabanks pic.twitter.com/yWWtCosp2p
— Jurassic World (@JurassicWorld) September 28, 2021
Granted, there was one dissenter who saw pasta, not prehistoric creatures, in this ugly-ass outfit.
What in the farfalle pasta is Tyra Banks wearing??? #DWTS pic.twitter.com/Nlu5UebXtt
— Ashley (@AshleyJRMC) September 28, 2021
Banks addressed the bruhaha on The Late Late Show with James Corden a few days later.
“I kept saying ‘peacock’ after [putting on the dress] and my stylist kept on kind of giggling and stuff and then we started seeing all this Jurassic Park stuff [online],” she said. “My stylist was like, ‘Yeah we did know that you looked like a lizard before the social started.’ They did know!”
This Twitter user guessed as much.
Tyra Banks: Jurassic Park is a cool movie
Stylist: Say no more pic.twitter.com/Wge8YlPe5r— Falyn Snyder (@viafalyn) September 28, 2021
And yet, the stylist sent her into the lion’s den anyway. Banks, who is known for unusual ensembles, took the social media mockery in stride.
“Different is what? Better,” she told Corden. “I don’t have time to be normal in a pretty dress, because nobody is going to say anything about a pretty dress. You’ve got to push it and go for it.”
It appears she did both, and got dragged for it. You do you, Tyra. Spread those wings. Just don’t spit on us, please.
Cover Photo: Eric Mccandless/ABC (Getty Images)
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