More colorful precious breast-holders followed, including Candice Swanepoel’s $10 million cups made of rubies, diamonds and yellow sapphires that were topped off with a giant teardrop ruby. The next year, Heidi Klum hit the runway in a $12.5 million bra complete with a 90-carat emerald-cut diamond nestled into the center. In 2000, Bündchen wore a $15 million ruby and diamond bra and panty set. In the late ’90s, the lingerie brand introduced staggeringly expensive “Fantasy” bras encrusted with pricey jewels and impracticality. Tyra Banks Getty Images What’s your ‘Fantasy’? Over the years, the wings would morph into intricately designed showstoppers that resembled the wildest costume at Rio’s Carnival. Tyra Banks sported a tall ivory pair with her sexy yet simple bra and panties. The Angels officially earned their wings in 1998. Rather it was a showcase of catwalkers wearing sensible panties and bras, otherwise known as the undergarments normal ladies own. But it was not a glitzy, winged affair with fantastical costumes. The show kicked off in 1995 at the ritzy Plaza Hotel in Manhattan and included iconic ’90s supermodel Stephanie Seymour. Licht said, “The world has changed, though, and today’s Angels are more likely health-care workers and activists than lingerie-clad models.”Īs the chapter is officially closed, here are some of the show’s sexiest, most controversial and defining moments. The Angel universe even turned the trainers, who toned the models’ gamine bodies, into bona fide influencers.īut after a two-decade run of holding a monopoly on the lingerie world, the brand was saddled with baggage, unable to pivot and grow with fashion’s new edict of “inclusivity.” The Angels fell to Earth. Cries of indecency to the FCC from the public didn’t slow them down,” said Licht. “The best example of this was exemplified by the crossover success of the fashion show to globally broadcasted network television, starting on ABC in 2001. The extravaganza featured chart-topping singers and pushed broadcasting boundaries with the sexy display. The Victoria’s Secret show and campaign helped turn a virtual United Nations of catwalkers such as Gisele Bündchen, Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Alessandra Ambrosio into household names. “Back in the day, becoming an Angel was proof that you had arrived at supermodel status,” said Aliza Licht, author and host of the “Leave Your Mark” podcast. The sexy show was quietly halted in 2019 after the beleaguered brand was tied to a multitude of scandals including complaints about a lack of diversity, plunging show ratings, declining sales and L Brands founder Les Wexner’s cozy relationship with accused child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein.īut for nearly two decades, the show and its models shaped pop culture, launched careers, controversies and headlines. Current Victoria’s Secret CEO Martin Waters went as far as to say that the Angels were not “culturally relevant.” On Wednesday, Victoria’s Secret announced official plans to replace their once vaunted Angels, the stable of supermodels who strutted down the runway in the glitzy annual fashion show that was often dubbed the Super Bowl of lingerie. We were Victoria’s Secret models - everything you saw was fake Victoria’s Secret taps ex-‘Angels’ Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima rescue brandĮscaped convict holds mother, daughter hostage before he’s shot dead in Victoria’s Secret store Victoria’s Secret shifts from sexy fashion catwalk to celebrating all body types
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