The event previewed the film, The Victoria’s Secret World Tour, which streams on Amazon Prime on Sept 26. Read more at straitstimes.com.
For more than 20 years, the show had been an annual event, an extravaganza of babes in thongland, like Barbie through the lens of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven.
There was a powder-pink carpet with a marquee outside Manhattan Center on 34th Street in Manhattan, with personalities Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lourdes Leon, Alix Earle and assorted models in skimpy outfits posing for paparazzi. Actress Priyanka Chopra Jones, supermodel Naomi Campbell and writer-artist Eloghosa Osunde at the Victoria’s Secret The Tour 2023 event at Manhattan Center in New York on Sept 6. PHOTO: NYTIMESCampbell, it turned out, was there to recite a poem by Nigerian writer-artist Eloghosa Osunde. And Hadid was to introduce the evening’s main event: a 12-minute trailer for a 90-minute film that is intended to be the final piece of the VS reinvention pie.
Grounded by five mini fashion shows by five designers from around the world, whose collections were almost all brought to Spain and filmed in the Corbero building, the flick in its full incarnation features a diverse cast of models – Adut Akech, Lila Moss Hack, Honey Dijon, Julia Fox and Yseult among them – as well as some former Angels like Adriana Lima and Candice Swanepoel.
Which, it turns out, often had little to do with Victoria’s Secret in particular and more with what it means to be a woman and the meaning of the body in all its imperfect glory.
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