Special guests: Janice Dickinson, Ève Salvail, Todd Newton, Trish Moreno, Rolanda Watts, Trey Smith, Tina Frazier, and Sarah Gold.

Featured photographers: Jay Lawrence Goldman and Pascal Demeester.

Many of the girls' photos impressed the judges, particularly Nnenna (who received the first call-out), Leslie, Danielle and Sara, who Tyra commended by saying her photo was 'one of the best photos in the history of America's Next Top Model.' Furonda and Kathy landed in the bottom two, but Kathy was eliminated over Furonda (whose photo Tyra said was the worst in the group) because the judges felt that Kathy looked lost in her photo and had no model potential. The girls arrived at Warren Tricomi salon and thought they were having makeovers and believed that they would all be shaved bald as a way to level the competition for the photoshoot, when in fact they were fitted with skull caps and posed wearing Swarovski crystals in an array of mannequin heads. They had dinner together and Gina got over drunk in alcoholism much to the shock of Kathy. Jade claimed she was 'the undiscovered supermodel' and declared herself the front runner of the competition. The rest of the contestants moved into their house in Los Angeles with four fashion-inspired rooms and one 'Top Model' room.

Nnenna won the challenge due to her personality and chose Jade, Gina, and Sara to be the first four to enter the house to choose their bedrooms. The girls were taken to Bel Age hotel for an interview challenge with Janice Dickinson. There were many older girls in this cycle, as 9 out of the 13 contestants were 21 years old and over including Jade who was the only 26-year-old contestant since Robyn Manning of Cycle 1 while Danielle and Kathy were 20 years old and Kari and Leslie were the youngest at 18. Tyra selected the 13 finalists to enter the competition. They were then trimmed down to 20 contestants, and they have to participate in their photoshoot. Memorable contestants included Yvonne, a 27-year-old doctor, who won the catwalk challenge and impressed both of the Jays Wendy, who revealed that she hasn't been able to speak with her family since they evacuated Hurricane Katrina Jade, who gave the judges something to talk about after being a little cocky Joanie, who showed the judges her rebellious side by showing her cage dancer moves, and as well as telling the judges she was the daughter of a preacher and Dani tells the judges over her personality in debates during her audition video.

The 32 hopeful contestants were driven to a Pasadena hotel to start a runway challenge, aiming to impress Tyra & the Jays. The winner was 20-year-old Danielle Evans from Little Rock, Arkansas with Joanie Dodds placing as the runner-up. The show’s first visit to South East Asia. The international destination during this cycle was Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand.

A US$100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.A fashion spread and cover in Elle magazine.The catchphrase for this cycle was 'Fairy Tales Come True.' This cycle was filmed from October through November 2005. He turned to a group of us and asked, 'Is it my imagination or did that show just make the audience horny?' It was a true fashion moment, a master class in raw sensuality that I have not witnessed since, and it signaled the arrival of Helmut Lang as one of fashion's masters.The sixth cycle of America's Next Top Model, premiered on March 8, 2006, which would be the last cycle to air on UPN before merging with The WB to create The CW. 'As we left the Trocadero trying to digest what we'd seen but too uncomfortable to really discuss it, Woody Hochswender, who was then the fashion critic of The New York Times, wasted no time getting to the point. I'll never forget how visibly uncomfortable the audience was watching the parade of overt yet stripped-down beauty-the sexual tension in that room was beyond electric! If all that wasn't enough, it was also the first appearance of Helena Christensen on a runway-a showstopper in itself. See-through dresses and catsuits with beads and feathers were the only thing barely covering the girls' naked bodies underneath, the male models were clearly not wearing underwear, and half the cast was in bare feet. Every man and woman with bare, flushed faces and wet hair like they just stepped out of a hot shower, wearing rubberized suits and dresses that changed color with their body heat. In a complete 180 to the overly sexualized and choreographed shows of the time personified by Mugler, Montana, and Lacroix, the parade at Helmut was like machine-gun fire, one model after the other. I remember distinctly on arriving the whole audience complaining that the room felt overly humid, but then the lights went up, the heat was turned higher, and a watershed moment began. The thing I was most looking forward to that season was Helmut Lang's Paris show. 'In 1991 I was a buyer for Charivari, a high-fashion boutique in New York.

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