Model and chat show host Tyra Banks brought some of her friends together on 26th St in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood to celebrate the first ever all-black model issue of Vogue Italia. Banks spent the time to pose for photographs with her model friends and held a bunch of black balloons.

Tyra, who is 34 years old, started her modelling career at the age of 17. She know hosts shows like "The Tyra Banks Show" and "America's Next Top Model" and will also appear in the comedy "Tropic Thunder". Tyra lives in New York with fellow supermodel, Amber Rives.