Behind The Scenes At The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
As CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco reported, the highly-anticipated show is a kickoff to the holiday season with an over-the-top celebration of all things sexy; including Swarovski crystal embellished lingerie, iconic angel wings, and a $2-million Fireworks Fantasy Bra worn by Lily Aldridge. “So much hair and makeup, and body makeup, and glitter, and everything that you think it’s going on, is happening right now,” Behati Prinsloo said. “It’s honestly so insane to go from viewing parties with your friends in 9th grade and practicing the runways during commercial breaks to actually be in this room,” Hadid said. “Obviously coming off a long season, so for me being in New York what other, better event to come to than the show,” New York Mets Pitcher Matt Harvey said. The 47 models in the Victoria Secret show – only 15 of whom are bestowed with the legendary ‘Angel’ status – spent all day in hair and make-up, and not much else. Backstage, they were preened and prepped while wearing only bras, ‘panties’ (yik), pink Haviana flip-flops and thigh skimming silk dressing gowns.
The girls – who for this 20th anniversary event included Adriana Lima, Alessandro Ambrosio, and newcomers Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid – were chosen after an extensive casting of hundreds of models. Backstage, the British model Lily Donaldson revealed all to me. “Well there’s an official after party,” she explained, “but the really hot ticket is for the pizza party we all throw at a secret location.” Because even Victoria’s Secret models have got to eat.
