NAME: US TYRABANKS 20080812E TAPE: EF08/0819 IN_TIME: 10:15:10:05 DURATION: 00:02:12:23 SOURCES: AP Television DATELINE: New York, 12 Aug. 2008 RESTRICTIONS: Check script for details SHOTLIST AP Entertainment New York, 12 August 2008 1. Wide of asphalt runway and audience members 2. Wide of Tyra Banks and other models walking down runway 3. Medium of Tyra Banks and other models walking 4. Medium shot and pan of Tyra posing 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyra Banks/ Television Host: "I think it's extremely important to have diversity in the modeling industry. Young girls look at magazines and want to see a reflection of themselves and that will tell them that they exist, and that they are beautiful. So we need Asians, we need black, we need Latin, we need every, every culture represented in fashion to show that young girl that she matters, that she exists, and that she is beautiful." 6. Medium pan of photographer taking a picture of Beverly Johnson (world's first black supermodel) 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Beverly Johnson/ former model: "Now, 34 years ago, this month of August, I was on the cover of Vogue magazine, first African American to be on the cover of Vogue magazine, and hopefully that opened up the floodgates for people to respect different cultures and also respect our beauty in each culture." 8. Medium pan from press to a zoom of Tyra Banks posing with other models 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chanel Iman/Model: "It means a lot because Tyra has been there for me, and I would love to support her and support everybody not just black women, but every woman in the world. I represent women, not just black, but every woman." 10. Medium pan of Tyra Banks and other models getting r.eady to release balloons 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Selita Ebanks/ model: "I'm just so honoured and so blessed in everything I do. I have to just tell the world to always stay professional, persistent, and consistent, and there's nothing that you can't achieve or accomplish, whether you're black, creme, purple, blue, or yellow it doesn't matter." 12. Wide of models releasing balloons into the air TYRA BANKS CELEBRATES BLACK MODELS Talk show host Tyra Banks transformed a New York City street into a fashion runway on Tuesday (12 Aug.) to celebrate the first ever all-black-model issue of Vogue Italia and the achievements of black models. Former supermodel Beverly Johnson, who was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue, hoped that her accomplishment "opened up the floodgates for people to respect different cultures and also respect our beauty in each culture." Hundreds of audience members watched on as past, present, and future black models joined Banks to recognize the importance of having women of color in the fashion industry. "Young girls look at magazines and want to see a reflection of themselves and that will tell them that they exist, and that they are beautiful," said Banks. "So we need Asians, we need black, we need Latin, we need every culture represented in fashion to show that young girl that she matters, that she exists, and that she is beautiful." Over the past few decades, racial barriers in the modeling industry have been gradually breaking down. Yet only a handful of African-American women, such as Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell, have earned 'supermodel' status. Model Selita Ebanks had this advice for aspiring models: "Always stay professional, persistent, and consistent, and there's nothing that you can't achieve or accomplish. Whether you're black, crème, purple, blue, or yellow, it doesn't matter." The taped event is to be aired as a segment of the "The Tyra Banks Show" in the US on 11 Sept., 2008. The new season of the Emmy-Award winning show premieres on 8 Sept.

TAPE: EF03/0140 IN_TIME: 07:08:53 DURATION: 6:45 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: music on catwalks not cleared for use. replace with your own clearable music DATELINE: New York City, US. 13 Feb 2003 SHOTLIST 1. Various shots BACKSTAGE 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alek Wek, model: "Little things make you feel sexy. Just the same way how things make you smile, how you feel. Being sexy is everything about a woman , it ay be her eyes, the way she moves, the way she feels, it is a lot. It is not something you just say or make up. It is something you feel inside." 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eva Herzigova, model: "My definition of sexy is, you know, it all comes from within. It's all about the details, it's about the moves, it's about the little smiles, it's not obvious, it not about the cleavage. I think elegance is sexy. i think charm and class and manners are sexy." 4. Various backstage 5. B-roll Tyra Banks 6. B-roll Kimora 7. B-roll Kimora with daughter Ming Lee 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Russell Simmons, Kimora's husband and chairman of Rush Communications which includes Phat Fashions (English): " She always amazes me, two children with the demands of five different extensions of the brand and to design the collections, doing TV shows and doing recordings, she is doing a lot of stuff right now, she is a hard worker." 9. B-roll Kimora Lee Simmons 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimora Lee Simmons: " I want a woman to feel how I feel when I put on the clothes, like I am the baddest thing out there. And I think every woman want to feel that way. And our clothes have a wonderful fit , our jeans are very stretchy and so this is always recreating and always getting better. i have great denim, it is very richly coloured and it is just, it is a really good fit, it feels great. And I think everyone I work with knows that. It has to be sexy, it has to be over the top...very...it's loud in a very classy way. It is overstated, it's accentuated, it's embellished, there is nothing shy and demure about the Baby Phat girls, we are not shy and demure girls." 11. VARIOUS SHOTS - BABY PHAT RUNWAY SHOW BABY PHAT PHASHION WOWS NEW YORKERS BABY PHAT models were ordered her models to walk as if they were going into war for for the 2003/4 Autumn Winter show in New York last night (13FEB03). Twenty-six-year-old Baby Phat creative director KIMORA SIMMONS, wife of hip-hop svengali RUSSELL SIMMONS, thought they needed plenty of the attitude to carry off her bootylicious homage to the seventies era of hiphuggers, bell-bottoms, platform shoes, denim, corduroy, velvet, herringbone, tweeds, leathers, suedes and, of course, animal prints - all of which featured in the show. Simmons doesn't do anything so mundane as draw or design for the Baby Phat lines, but operates instead on intuition. She hires a talented team and accepts or rejects clothing, accessories, models and music based on her own taste and knowledge of the fashion world. Boss is hubby Russell Simmons, chairman of Rush Communications, which includes Def Jam Recordings, Def Pictures and Phat Fashions, among other holdings. He knows that even though the Baby Phat show costs close to $400,000 to stage - it is more than worth it as photographers and TV crews pack in to cover the show. But with the Bryant Park tent costing $ 39,500 to rent, including racks, mirrors, makeup lights, radios and headsets, sound system, European-style lighting and production team - and seating only 920 people, they have to get the guest list right. But with Tyra Banks leading the charge, and seats for politicians, athletes, rappers, rock stars, models, moguls, socialites and actresses, the high powered couple are sure to get plenty of coverage. Of his half Japanese-American, half African-American wife, the mother of their two daughters - 3-year-old Ming Lee and 5-month-old Aoki Lee - Russell says: "She always amazes me, two children with the demands of five different extensions of the brand and to design the collections, doing TV shows and doing recordings, she is doing a lot of stuff right now, she is a hard worker."

TAPE: EF02/0123 IN_TIME: 14:37:56 DURATION: 3:03 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: music on catwalks not cleared for use. replace with your own clearable music DATELINE: New York, February 9, 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Push In to entrance at Bryant Park 2. Pan of models having their hair done - backstage 3. MS Baby Phat's designer Kimora Lee Simmons with her husband Russell Simmons and daughter, posing in front of photographers. 4. Pan of sign directing models before they get on the catwalk. 5. WS model Carmen Kass 6. MS and pan model 7. WS model 8. WS model 9. WS model 10. MS and pan model 11. MS model 12. WS and pan model 13. WS model 14. MS model 15. MS model 16. MS and pan model 17. MS model 18. MS model 19. MS model 20. MS model Carmen Kass 21. WS show finale, designer Kimora Lee with her baby daughter Mink Lee. 22. SOT Kimora Lee Simmons (designer for Baby Phat): "I pick up on the trends and then I sort of interpret them for myself. But right now I love all things Asian. I mean I'm half Japanese and I love that. And I think the trend is Asian right now. I think it is a very hot trend. So, you sort of see my interpretation of that." 23. SOT Lauren Ezersky, Fashion Editor: "Well, you know I like Baby Phat. I like Kimora Lee and Russell Simmons, and I think they also do really young, exciting clothes. They are a young couple, they like to design for people like themselves, on the go, hip hop, happening, you know, but very casual." 24. SOT Reverend Al Sharpton: "I'm here because I want to see the great fashions. They tell me that a lot of the models will have on skimpy attire. I feel on a Saturday night, a minister should be here, so I can forgive everybody's sins tomorrow morning at church service.'" STORYLINE: KIMORA LEE DEBUTES HER FIRST WOMEN'S WEAR LINE An eclectic crowd of politicians, musicians and fashionistas flooded the Bryant Park tents, on Saturday night, to attend Baby Phat's runway show. Baby Phat designer Kimora Lee Simmons, wife of music mogul Russell Simmons, debuted her first womenswear line for her jeans/lingerie company. Lee, who comes from Japanese-American stock, says she has been inspired by the Asian aesthetic for this collection. The very sexy collection opened with model Carmen Kass, in a cropped kimono over denim capris with hippie tassels, and finished with a glamorous bra made out of Swarovski crystals and a sexy pair of panties covered by a colorful fan. The collection also included denim clam diggers, hot pants and, tiny bikini tops. The label last year announced sales of $150 million, and claims to be the favourite of many rap singers, as well as top models like Tyra Banks and Claudia Schiffer. Kimora Lee is no stranger to the fashion industry: she was the muse for Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld at the tender age of 13, and was a much in demand cover girl. In the front rows of the fashion show, the political activist Reverend Al Sharpton, ex-New York Mayor David Dinkins, fand ormer public advocate Mark Green, took their seats alongside rappers Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Rah Digger.