Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by and featuring Victoria’s Secret, a brand of lingerie and sleepwear. Victoria’s Secret uses the show to promote and market its goods in high-profile settings. The show features some of the world’s leading fashion models such as current Victoria’s Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, and Lily Aldridge.
When it started?
The first fashion show extravaganza, introduced by Stephanie Seymour, was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in August 1995. In 1999, during Super Bowl XXXIII, Victoria’s Secret announced a 72-hour countdown to the Internet webcast of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, which resulted in over 2 million internet viewers of the show.
What is fantasy Bra?
Typically, one model is chosen among the Angels to wear a bejeweled bra dubbed the “Fantasy Bra”. It was first advertised in the Victoria’s Secret catalog, but since 2001 has been worn in the fashion shows. Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima have worn the Fantasy Bra in three different years. Gisele Bündchen, Tyra Banks, Karolina Kurkova, and Alessandra Ambrosio have each worn two Fantasy Bras. The $15 million price tag for the 2000 bra worn by Gisele Bündchen earned a place in the Guinness World Records as the most expensive item of lingerie ever created.
What is Victoria’s Secret Angel Wings?
What makes a Victoria’s Secret Angel an Angel? Obviously the angle wings. If you see a model wearing the wings, that model has been selected to be an ambassador for the company for a year. The longest serving Angel is Adriana Lima at 14 years. It is a career making achievement – 8 of the top 20 earning models on the Forbes list are Angels. The German beauty also wore the largest wings in the history of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway—12 feet high!
This Year’s Show?
This year’s show will take place in Paris, the fashion capital of the world and the City of Love.Past shows have taken place in New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami and Cannes.The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will debut the latest Victoria’s Secret and Pink collections December 5.
