America's Next Top Model returns this Wednesday.

For its 16th cycle, the show will do away with casting week, while all the photos in the mansion will be of Tyra Banks when she was 16 years old. Get it? Because it's cycle 16.

Oh, and also because Tyra is the most self-serving egomaniac is all of television.

Get your first look at the upcoming season, where an IMG contract and Vogue Italia spread will be on the line, via this official preview:

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