In the same interview, he said there was no interest in portraying a wider range of sizes and shapes. Earlier this month, Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of Victoria’s Secret’s parent company, L Brands, was forced to apologise after telling Vogue that he didn’t want transgender models in the show because it would spoil the “fantasy”. When the show airs on 2 December, if you are a young woman with access to the internet, Victoria’s Secret will be impossible to avoid. Its three highest-profile models – Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid and her sister Bella – have more than 163 million Instagram followers between them, and some of the biggest names in entertainment – from Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Ariana Grande to Sting and Lady Gaga – have played the Victoria’s Secret catwalk. And, despite a recent fall in sales and the resignation of its CEO, Victoria’s Secret still has a bigger global market share than any other lingerie brand. Last year, it was watched by more than 1 billion people worldwide, claimed to be a 45% increase on the year before. The show’s uniformly tall and thin models seem an anachronism in a world that increasingly celebrates body diversity. One of them bent over in a thong and I saw it all.” The underwear is so skimpy, you can literally see everything. One fashion editor told me that the year she covered the show was the “worst job I’d ever done. In 2002, the US’s National Organization of Women (NOW) protested at the event, calling it a “softcore porn infomercial”. Almost from the beginning, it has been under fire. Launched in 1995, the Victoria’s Secret runway show has been broadcast on US network television every December since 2001, an extraordinary feat for a high-street underwear brand.
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