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Various controversies and criticisms for promoting an old beauty standard, made in 2019 the iconic parade of El Secreto de Victoria will close.
At the time, it was world news and the company assured that it would work to obtain a new vision. After three years, they announce that they will return to the catwalks.
The media The New York Post and Variety, published that the financial director of said brand, Timothy Johnson, revealed that in this 2023 “the angels” will parade again.
During a video conference, Johnson revealed that they have taken steps to revamp the show and one of them is marketing to “support and support the new version of our fashion show.”
Despite the fact that he assured that the show would be at the end of this year, he did not reveal more details or the names of the models that will participate or the exact date.
The fall of “the angels”
Victoria’s Secret canceled its show in November 2019 after 24 years since its launch in 1995. Les Wexner, then CEO of parent company L Brands, said at the time that the company did not believe “network television is the right fit” for the show and that it was rethinking “literally everything” about the business.
The fashion show, which featured the famous Victoria’s Secret models known as “the angels”, saw its ratings decline in the years before it was cancelled.
Ed Razek, the brains behind the show and head of marketing for L Brands, was considered one of the most influential people in the modeling world in the early 2000s launching the careers of such household names as models Gisele Bündchen, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum.
According to a report in The New York Times, Razek and Wexner were accused of creating a “culture of misogyny, intimidation and harassment.”
the lingerie company has faced criticism for not including more plus-size womensomething that other modeling agencies have adopted and due to the controversy surrounding its founder, Leslie Wexner, who was related to the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
During the economic shutdown in May 2020, Victoria’s Secret announced the permanent closure of 250 stores in the United States and Canada, posting a loss of nearly $300 million.
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