Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks

UPDATED 09/14/1998 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/14/1998 at 01:00 AM EDT

With a form last seen on the peak of Mount Olympus, 5'11" Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Tyra Banks could wear anything. But she doesn't. "She knows what looks best and accentuates her best body parts," says Felicity costume designer Linda Serijan-Fasmer. "She is," declares Old Navy's Carrie Donovan, "divinely turned out." As a consequence, says L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant, "her style is a double take: She walks by you, you look." The 24-year-old Banks (who recently turned author with Tyra's Beauty Inside & Out—a book that offers her thoughts on building self-esteem, as well as her step-by-step advice on makeup) walks the classic side of the avenue in the softly sensual contours of Halston and Calvin Klein. Whatever the California native wears, the heavenly results make others choose green for envy. "Did you ever notice," asks MTV's Daria, "how no other woman will get near her in a picture?"