Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley has finished filming America's Next Top Model cycle 14, and has signed on for at least two more seasons as a modeling judge alongside creator Tyra Banks, noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker, and revolving guest judges including Whitney Port, Rachel Roy and Sally Hershberger.

Talley spoke to WWD about how he ended up on ANTM eight long years after Tyra originally offered him a job as a judge, and how his Vogue boss, noted hard-ass Anna Wintour, took the news about his new gig:

"Her reaction," said Talley, "was, 'Fine, Andre. Just let me know when you're going to do it and how it's going.'" (Reached for comment, Wintour said through her spokesman, "Andre is always onto new things on television, and I think his latest adventure sounds like a lot of fun and I look forward to watching him on the program.")

After originally declining Tyra's offer at the beginning of America's Next Top Model's cable run, citing that he "wanted to see where it goes" first, Talley jumped at the second chance to sign on for cycle 14, given the show's success:

"I've seen the success of Tyra in many facets of her life. So I felt maybe I could contribute something to it that had not been on the show. I just felt that it was a way to step out of the box and associate myself with a very important American success story, a very important brand -- Tyra Banks."

Talley admits he'd never seen an episode of the rags-to-runway competition show, but he "had no hesitations at all" about judging this cycle's models, and he's certainly tuning in now.

It's easy to see why Tyra wanted Talley on her judging panel. He adds an element of industry-insider knowledge, cache, and personality that might have been lacking before. Says Banks about his addition to her team:

"A lot of people can speak about fashion, but it doesn't necessarily translate to strong television. But Andre speaks about fashion and he has such a passion, and the words -- the adverbs, the adjectives -- he uses! I know it's going to make the viewer at home go, 'Wowww.' It might go over their head, but he's educating them about a time, bringing them back to a place when fashion was life."

America's Next Top Model viewers should get ready for those unique adverbs and adjectives they'll soon be hearing from Talley, including one brand-new original term: "dreckitude."

The word is "a melding of dreck, one of his "favorite" words, and "quackitude," a term he'd heard Rachel Maddow use on her show," says WWD. Talley explains:

"'Dreckitude' was whipped out when I thought the challenge was not met or if [the contestants] showed up in perhaps an outfit that I just couldn't wrap my mind around."

And there will be quite a lot of "dreckitude" going on during the models' judging sessions:

"I was constantly repulsed by the complete popularity of what I call the Cult of the Ugly Shoe -- that is, a very clodhopper, high platform-y, clunky-clunk sort of shoe, which they would favor. And I kept saying to them, 'You can also be very elegant in a Sabrina flat.' "

Talley also added that this cycle's winner is Vogue-quality, in his opinion, "but that's not my decision, that's Ms. Wintour's."

Catch Talley, Tyra, and the brand new gang of aspiring models when America's Next Top Model cycle 14 premieres Wednesday, March 3 at 8pm on the CW.