The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by 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 Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller, and Doutzen Kroes.
American network television broadcasts the show during prime time. The first few shows in the 1990s were held in the days preceding Valentine's Day to promote the brand for this holiday. They were not aired on national television. In 1999 and 2000 the show was webcast. Beginning in 2001, the shows were moved ahead of the Christmas holiday season. Also in 2001, the show made its network television broadcast on ABC, though in all subsequent years, it has been broadcast on CBS. The show has been held at a variety of locations in different cities including Miami, Los Angeles, and Cannes. The first four shows were held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, but since it has become a televised event it has most often been held at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.
The show is a lavish event with elaborate costumed lingerie, varying music by leading entertainers, and set design according to the different themes running within the show. The show attracts hundreds of celebrities and entertainers, with special performers and acts every year. Each year, twenty to forty of the world's top fashion models are selected to perform in the fashion show. In a typical year, this includes about a half dozen women under contract to the company,[1] known as Victoria's Secret Angels, who help publicize the event. The giant angel wings worn by the models, as well as other wings of various forms and sizes such as butterfly, peacock, or devil wings, have become emblematic of the Victoria's Secret brand.
History
The first fashion show extravaganza, introduced by Stephanie Seymour, was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in August 1995. The show also featured Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal.[2] This first fashion show occurred two months before The Limited, parent company of Victoria's Secret owner Intimate Brands, sold an initial public offering of a 16 percent stake in the company and almost had Seymour make an appearance at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for the opening bell.[3] She actually did ring the closing bell at the NYSE as part of the publicity campaign.[4] The subsequent three annual shows were also held at the Plaza.[5][6][7]
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.[8] Parent company Intimate Brands bought a $1.5 million ($2,4 million in current dollar terms) 30-second television advertisement during the Super Bowl broadcast and spent an additional $4 million ($6,5 million) for subsequent international newspaper advertisements to publicize the event.[9] The show, which was aired by Broadcast.com,[9] featured Tyra Banks, Laetitia Casta, Heidi Klum, Karen Mulder, Daniela Pestova, and Seymour.[10] In 1999 and 2000,[11][12] the show was broadcast live on the internet, but the 2000 show was moved for a year from the usual February event at the Plaza to a May event in concert with the Cannes Film Festival in France to raise money for the Cinema Against AIDS charity; it raised $3.5 million.[13][14]
In 2001, the show, which was hosted by Rupert Everett,[15] returned to the New York City but at Bryant Park instead of the Plaza.[16] That year, the show made its broadcast debut on ABC,[17] drawing millions of viewers as well as some middle-brow controversy; the Federal Communications Commission received many complaints about the broadcast every year.[18][15] The show has continued to be broadcast on network television every year since.
From 2002 through 2005, it was held at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.[19][20][21] The 2004 show was canceled due to a widespread crackdown on perceived indecency in broadcasting stemming from the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, in which Jackson encountered a breast-revealing "wardrobe malfunction".[22] Before the 2005 show, Banks announced her retirement from modeling and embarkation on a television career with the The Tyra Banks Show, making the 2005 show a farewell to her decade of fashion shows for the company.[23]
In 2004, instead of the annual fashion show, the Angels (Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima, and Alessandra Ambrosio) did an Angels Across America Tour, a grassroots campaign for the brand visiting four major cities: New York City, Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.[24]
The 2006 and 2007 shows were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.[25][26] On November 13, 2007, the Victoria's Secret Angels were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame right outside the Kodak Theatre.[27][28] The 2007 Angels honored in this celebration to mark Victoria's Secret's 25th anniversary on Hollywood Boulevard were Alessandra Ambrosio, Marisa Miller, Selita Ebanks, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Miranda Kerr, Izabel Goulart, and Karolina Kurkova. The other models, who also appeared in that year's fashion show, were in attendance that day.[29] The 2008 show coincided with the grand re-opening of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.[30]
In 2006, Victoria's Secret sub-brand Pink made its debut on the runway.[31]
The 2007 show featured a performance by the Spice Girls and gained prominence as the first American TV debut of the band after their comeback.[32] Kanye West was also scheduled to perform at the event, but cancelled his appearance due to his mother's death. Will.i.am was called to perform in his place.[33]
In 2009, the fashion show took place in New York City at the Lexington Avenue Armory, where it was last held in 2005. The 2009 show was notable for featuring the results of a competition, called the Victoria's Secret Model Search, to find a new Victoria's Secret "runway Angel." The winner was announced as Kylie Bisutti.[34]
Critical review
The early webcasts were frustrating because many were unable to get connected and those that could were subjected to low video quality.[9] One critic from The New York Times described the initial 20th century webcast experience as having felt like he was "watching a striptease through a keyhole".[4]
Some critics have described the 21st century televised editions of the show as pornographic,[18] while others have described it as both "outright commercialism" and an infomercial.[15] However, although the Federal Communications Commission is inundated with complaints following each airing, no fines have ever been imposed.[18] In the initial 2001 airing ABC blurred the screen on particularly sheer lingerie.[35] This enabled the show to pass muster with its internal Broadcast Standards and Practices department and to achieve the TV-14 rating.[36] In 2002, the National Organization for Women protested the show calling it a "soft-core porn infomercial."[37] They were joined in protest by the Parents Television Council and other watchdog organizations.[35] CBS has given past shows TV-14 ratings, which is a warning that the show may contain material unsuitable for children age 14 and under. Nonetheless some affiliates have chosen not to air the show in past years including Fisher Broadcasting affiliates in Idaho.[35] In 2009, the American Decency Association organized email letters of protests to sponsors of the show including AT&T, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Netflix, Nikon, and Reebok.[38]
Summary table
Fantasy Bra
The fashion show features mostly lingerie. 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. Prior to each Fashion Show, Victoria's Secret contracts a renowned jewelry designer to craft a "Fantasy Bra," to be used as a focal point for promoting the fashion show and as a centerpiece within it since the early 2000s. Most often modeled by a Victoria's Secret Angel in promotional material and on the runway, the company offers the Fantasy Bra for sale as "the ultimate holiday" gift,[79] although none have sold since 1996, its first offering.[80] Heidi Klum has worn the Fantasy Bra in three different years.[81] Gisele Bündchen, Tyra Banks, and Karolina Kurkova have each worn two Fantasy Bras.
The $15 million price tag for the 2000 bra worn by Gisele Bundchen earned the set a place in the Guinness World Records as the most expensive items of lingerie ever created.[82] The $3 million 2009 Harlequin Fantasy bra was designed by Damiani.[83]
Year | Name | Model | Value | Appeared in fashion show | Refs |
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1996 | Million Dollar Miracle Bra | Claudia Schiffer | $1,000,000 | No | [84] |
1997 | Diamond Dream Bra | Tyra Banks | $3,000,000 | No | |
1998 | Dream Angel Fantasy Bra | Daniela Pestova | $5,000,000 | No | |
1999 | Millennium Bra | Heidi Klum | $10,000,000 | No | [81] |
2000 | Red Hot Fantasy Bra/Panties | Gisele Bundchen | $15,000,000 | No | [82] |
2001 | Heavenly Star Bra | Heidi Klum | $12,500,000 | Yes | [85] |
2002 | Star of Victoria Fantasy Bra | Karolina Kurkova | $10,000,000 | Yes | [86] |
2003 | Very Sexy Fantasy Bra | Heidi Klum | $11,000,000 | Yes | [87] |
2004 | Heavenly "70" Fantasy Bra | Tyra Banks | $10,000,000 | No | [88] |
2005 | Sexy Splendor Fantasy Bra | Gisele Bundchen | $12,500,000 | Yes | [89] |
2006 | Hearts On Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra | Karolina Kurkova | $6,500,000 | Yes | [86] |
2007 | Holiday Fantasy Bra | Selita Ebanks | $4,500,000 | Yes | [90] |
2008 | Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra | Adriana Lima | $5,000,000 | Yes | [91] |
2009 | Harlequin Fantasy Bra | Marisa Miller | $3,000,000 | Yes | [92] |
References
See also
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