“Post-truth” may not be the first phrase that comes to mind when you think of Jay Manuel, America’s Next Top Model creative director and on-air staple. And yet the label fits his new novel The Wig, the Bitch, and the Meltdown like couture. Consider the layers of reality at work, and then consider how one obscures the next. Manuel’s book is a fictionalized rendering of a show that presented a contorted version of modeling world, which itself is a bizarro version of the real life in which the majority of the world’s population functions. The effect is as disorienting as an infinity mirror that distorts as it expands. At a certain point, you don’t know what you’re looking at.
Jay Manuel (born August 14, 1972) is an American - Canadian TV host, Creative Director and make-up artist . He is most recognizable as the Creative Director on the popular reality television show America's Next Top Model for the first nine seasons. Manuel also was featured as the host of Canada's Next Top Model .
