Season 3 (Top Model)

**Top Model Season 3**was the third season of Top Model, which was a spin-off of the hit show Top Designer.

It was the first season of the reboot of the franchise, which featured both male and female models and a public vote to determine the weekly eliminee.

The season featured 12 models from all over USA.

The winner of the third season received the winning prize of $100,000, a modeling contract with IMG Model Management, and a feature and a six page fashion spread in *Vogue* Magazine.

The judges for the third season were model and host, Heidi Klum, fashion photographer, Victor Demarchelier, and bookers and scouts from IMG Model Management, Jeni Rose and David Cunningham.

## Summaries

### Photo shoot guide

* Episode 1 photo shoot: Test Shoot
* Episode 3 photo shoot: Motion posing in the rain
* Episode 5 photo shoot: Editorial beauty shoot
* Episode 7 photo shoot: Nude photo shoot
* Episode 9 photo shoot: Calvin Klein Lookbook
* Episode 11 photo shoot: Barnyard couture
* Episode 13 photo shoot: Couture on a yacht
* Episode 15 photo shoot: Gender beding editorial.
* Episode 17 photo shoot: *Vogue*editorial mock-up.

### Makeovers

* **Brianne**- Trimmed.
* **Chloe**- Blunt cut and blonder.
* **Danijel T**- Trimmed.
* **Eisha**- Long volumnious weave.
* **Emma**- Strawberry blonde hair and eyebrows.
* **Grace**- Darkened.
* **Kelsey**- Shaved off.
* **Raelyn**- Pixie cut.
* **Ronald**- Buzz cut.
* **Sumiya**- Dyed ice blonde.

## Episode summaries

### Episode 1: Return of the Top Model

*First aired May 4, 2016*

The twelve aspiring models move into a New York City loft and are greeted welcome to the competition by model and host, Heidi Klum.

They meet with Jeni Rose and David Cunningham - Jeni will be the girls's booker and David will be the boys's booker.

The models are all weighed and measured and polaroids are taken for their set-cards who will be updated each week as the models continue on in the competition.

Their first photo shoot is a classic test shoot, which will determine the aspirings models's natural modeling skills.

The judges evaluate the models's photo shoot and potential and select a winner of the week, and determine a bottom three who will be put up for the public vote.

* **WINNER**: Grace
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Alic, Brianne, Chloe, Emma
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Alic, Brianne, Chloe

### Episode 2: Result of Episode 1 Vote

*First aired May 5, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Brianne
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Alic and Chloe
* **ELIMINATED**: Alic

### Episode 3: Singing In The Rain

*First aired May 11, 2016*

The eleven remaining models receive runway lesson. Some excel where many of the boys get critiqued.

Back at the house, Kelsey explains to the other models how he dropped out of school and how he has to win this for the money, because he is broke.

In a New York themed photo shoot, the models must pose in motion in the pouring rain.

* **WINNER**: Sumiya
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Daniel A, Danijel T, Kelsey, Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Daniel A, Kelsey, Ronald

### Episode 4: Result of Episode 3 Vote

*First aired May 12, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Ronald
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Daniel A and Kelsey
* **ELIMINATED**: Daniel A

### Episode 5: Model Makeovers

*First aired May 18, 2016*

The remaining ten models receive fashionable makeovers, which lead some of the models perplexed about their new looks. Most of the models embrace they new looks, but especially Chloe, Kelsey and Raelyn are unhappy with their new looks.

Back at the house tension begin to brew between Raelyn and Brianne, and Ronald leave the other models confused by his arrogant personality. Where romance begin to spark between Danijel T and Brianne.

At the photo shoot the models must bring their best feature forward in an editorial beauty shoot.

* **WINNER**: Ronald
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Brianne, Chloe, Emma, Kelsey
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Chloe, Emma, Kelsey

### Episode 6: Result of Episode 5 Vote

*First aired May 19, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Kelsey
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Chloe and Emma
* **ELIMINATED**: Emma

### Episode 7: Baring All

*First aired May 25, 2016*

The remaining nine models go to a casting for a TV commercial. Brianne, Danijel and Eisha win the spot and are featured in an ad for T-Mobile.

Back at the house Ronald keeps rubbing people the wrong way, which leads him into a fight with Brianne and Kelsey, leading Kelsey to break down and call his family.

At the weekly photo shoot challenge, the models must pose for a nude photo shoot.

* **WINNER**: Brianne
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Chloe, Danijel T, Eisha, Raelyn
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Chloe, Eisha, Raelyn

### Episode 8: Result of Episode 7 Vote

*First aired May 26, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Chloe
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Eisha & Raelyn
* **ELIMINATED**: Eisha

### Episode 9: Do You Like The Way I Look (Book)?

*First aired June 1, 2016*

In the house the models are angry with Chloe still being in the competition, where Chloe defends herself by saying America sees potential in her. Ronald and Brianne is especially verbal about it.

Brianne and Danijel continues their romance, with Danijel saying to Brianne she was being rude to Chloe, which lead her to apologize.

At the photo shoot the models must pose for a Calvin Klein lookbook.

* **WINNER**: Grace
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Danijel T, Kelsey, Raelyn, Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Danijel T, Kelsey, Ronald

### Episode 10: Result of Episode 9 Vote

*First aired June 2, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Danijel T
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Kelsey and Ronald
* **ELIMINATED**: Kelsey

### Episode 11: Old McModel Had A Farm

*First aired June 8, 2016*

The house is somber after Kelsey's elimination. Ronald takes his frustration out on Chloe, where Brianne chimes in. This leads to tensions between Brianne and Danijel, leading Danijel to say in confessional, that he may have misjudged Brianne and that she maybe is a bit of a bitch.

At the photo shoot the models have to pose with barnyard animals in a couture photo shoot.

* **WINNER**: Raelyn
* **BOTTOM FOUR**: Brianne, Chloe, Danijel T, Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Chloe, Danijel T, Ronald

### Episode 12: Result of Episode 11 Vote

*First aired June 9, 2016*

* **SAFE**: Chloe
* **BOTTOM TWO**: Danijel T and Ronald
* **ELIMINATED**: Danijel T

### Episode 13: The Glamorous Life of a Model

*First aired June 15, 2016*

Tensions explode when Chloe returns to the house safe and Danijel is eliminated. Brianne begins a huge argument leaving Ronald in a position of middle-man. Grace and Sumiya bond as they feel they are the only two focusing on the competition, and how the other models would never be a strong representation for IMG Models.

Jeni and David come to visit the house and gives the models lecture on model behaviour. They talk to their models one-on-one, where Grace reveals a struggle with her father, as he was killed in a car accident only a year earlier.

At the photo shoot the models go all glam in a couture photoshoot on a yacht.

* **WINNER**: Brianne
* **BOTTOM THREE**: Chloe, Grace, Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Chloe, Ronald

### Episode 14: Result of Episode 13 Vote

*First aired June 16, 2016*

* **ELIMINATED**: Chloe

### Episode 15: Gender Benders

*First aired June 22, 2016*

The house has a sigh-of relief as Chloe is eliminated, causing Brianne to host a party. This rubs Grace the wrong way, and thought silent an argument breaks out between the two.

At a gender bending photo shoot, the female models must pose as men, and the male models must pose as women.

* **WINNER**: Sumiya
* **BOTTOM THREE**: Brianne, Grace, Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Brianne, Ronald

### Episode 16: Result of Episode 15 Vote

*First aired June 23, 2016*

* **ELIMINATED**: Brianne

### Episode 17: Am I In Vogue?

*First aired June 29, 2016*

The models meet with IMG Models and are shown their set-cards at the IMG Wall.

The four remaining models attend go-sees for New York Fashion week.

The photo shoot is a mock-up for their final editorial in *Vogue*. Grace's is in a clean, posh setting, Raelyn in a modern setting, Sumiya's in a edgy avant-garde setting, and Ronald's in a sporty, urban setting.

* **WINNER**: Ronald
* **UP FOR THE VOTE**: Raelyn, Sumiya

### Episode 18: Result of Episode 17 Vote

*First aired June 30, 2016*

* **ELIMINATED**: Sumiya

### Episode 19: New York Fashion Week

*First aired July 6, 2016*

The final three models shoot their cover for *Vogue* Magazine and walk in New York Fashion Week.

### Episode 20: Live Finale

*First aired July 7, 2016*

* **3RD PLACE**: Ronald
* **FINAL TWO**: Grace and Raelyn
* **WINNER**: Grace
* **RUNNER-UP**: Raelyn