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Victoria’s Secret is American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed.
Victoria’s Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer known for high visibility marketing and branding, starting with a popular catalog and followed by an annual fashion show with supermodels dubbed Angels. As the largest retailer of lingerie in the United States, the brand has struggled since 2016 due to shifting consumer preferences and ongoing controversy surrounding corporate leadership’s business practices.
The company’s Angels underwear collection was marketed in 1997 by a TV commercial that included supermodels Helena Christensen, Karen Mulder, Daniela Peštová, Stephanie Seymour, and Tyra Banks. In the commercial, the Angels appear in a white cloudscape in dialog with “God”, played by Welsh singer Tom Jones, widely known for his fans’ tradition of tossing their panties at him during shows. The spoof proved popular and the Angels, as characters, became a regular feature of the advertising as brand ambassadors. The term “Angel” soon became synonymous with the brand.
Official Angels have greater responsibilities than other runway models for the brand, as the Angels are obliged to appear in marketing campaigns, talk shows, major runway shows, and the annual fashion show.[166] The Angels are contracted spokesmodels for the brand, but the company is not transparent about the terms of these contracts.In 1998, the Angels made their runway debut at Victoria’s Secret’s 4th annual fashion show, (Chandra North filled in for Christensen). The brand’s Fashion Show and the Angels were closely connected through 2018, the final year that event was held. Some of the early Victoria’s Secret Angels included Inés Rivero and Laetitia Casta.
In 2004, the company did not hold a fashion show due fallout from the Super Bowl halftime show controversy, and instead alternately marketed the brand via a tour called Angels Across America. Victoria’s Secret sent its five contract models (Banks, Klum, Bundchen, Lima, and Ambrosio) out for the event.
Please watch out! You may have or may be purchasing a fake vs item. Totes, blankets and even towels are being faked. The only way to tell if it’s real (from what I learned) is for the packaging to have a barcode label on the plastic bag OR have a Victoria’s Secret tag on it. If it doesn’t have either.. There is a chance it might be fake. Sellers are knowingly selling to clueless buyers. Please share this with your friends!
Beware: Fake Victoria’s Secret Weekender Duffel Bag
This post is a warning to all bag lovers. Last January I bought a Victoria’s Secret Weekender Duffel Bag at an online store. It was my first time buying a bag to an online seller but definitely not the first time buying on the same store.
After two days the product was delivered and upon opening I noticed that there is no tag to say that it is indeed Victoria’s Secret. To erase my anxiety, I looked for an article on how to spot an authentic versus a fake Victoria’s Secret Weekender Duffel Bag with Black & White stripes. And because I saw no one post, I did the investigation myself.
First and foremost, I asked my friends if ever they had bought the same bag and also friends who have authentic Victoria’s Secret bags (not the weekender bag specifically). Turned out I had one friend who has Victoria’s Secret bags as well as the weekender bag.
Unfortunately, that weekender bag she owned was also bought from another online seller and the rest of her bags were shipped by her relative from US. So it turned out we had the same bag that we didn’t know if authentic or pure imitation.
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