6 Revelations From Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons
The 6 Most Shocking Revelations from "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons"
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Former Victoria's Secret executives interviewed in the docuseries speculated that the late '90s and early 2000s was when the brand stepped into a new era. Iconic pop culture movies like "Sex and The City" were becoming mainstream, and women were beginning to own and become more invested in their sexuality.
The Victoria's Secret Angels — beautiful, skinny models in VS's lingerie — were born as an advertising play, leading to the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1999, which ultimately crashed their website from the sheer amount of people watching online. Models who got their start from the brand, like Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum, often said they were overworked, criticised for their looks (even when their photos were often retouched), and hypersexualized to keep up Victoria's Secret's idea of "what is sexy," showcasing a lack of diversity between body types.
By the mid-2000s, the creation of Pink aimed to target a younger generation of girls to buy into Victoria's Secret's brand, and Wexner's preliminary tactics to create a faux women empowerment façade in his company began to unravel. According to the documentary, many former employees and models, like Frederique Van Der Wal, said this was when Victoria's Secret felt more about selling the fantasy and less about the clothes, fashion, or anything relatable to what real women and girls should look like or strive for.