![]() ![]() Savage x Fenty reported sales of $5.8billion in 2017, meanwhile Victoria’s Secrets’ share price has dropped by over 40%. As part of the campaign for the launch of inclusive UK-based label Bluebella in its stores, struggling. (Razek also said they would never cast transgender models in the show). His argument against plus size models is one that is currently being challenged by the likes of Amercian Eagle’s Aerie and Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty, who’s inclusive styles and marketing are proving a recipe for success. Victorias Secret features first plus-size model. No one had any interest in it, still don’t…”. Last year in an interview with US Vogue, Ed Razek, Chief Marketing Officer of L Brands (Victoria’s Secret’s parent company) attributed the lack of body diversity on the brand’s famed fashion shows to the ‘fact’ that plus-size models don’t sell lingerie “we attempted to do a television special for plus-sized. For years the lingerie label has perpetuated an extreme body ideal - something that it has been reluctant to amend. She DESERVES it.”īut is this any wonder? Although Palvin’s plus-size status hasn’t come from Victoria’s Secret, the brand is hardly a bastion of body diversity and it is not blameless in all of this. “The real angel with curves,” wrote one follower, whilst another comment read “Finally VS valuing models with a real body.'' A post on Facebook came with the caption “Barbara Palvin is FINALLY the first plus size Victoria's Secret Angel. Instead, the headlines come as a response to the comments made on social media following the brand’s Instagram announcement of the model’s newly be-winged status. It’s worth noting here that Victoria’s Secret have not called Palvin plus-size. To date, the post has garnered 1.5 thousands likes. 121 pounds? That’s about eight and a half stone.īody confidence coach Michel Elman was quick to highlight the absurdity on Twitter, posting a photograph of a svelte Palvin with the caption “I was going to say “too little, too late” but are we really just calling everyone plus-size now?”. The lingerie fashion brand is featuring its first size 14 model, Ali Tate-Cutler, in ads as part of its collaboration. ![]() Encouraging news, I think we’d all agree, except - wait, the headline continues “.at 5-feet, 8-inches & 121 pounds”. USA TODAY 0:00 0:54 Victorias Secret just got a little more inclusive. In the news Home Retail Victoria's Secret is featuring a plus-size model in a new lingerie campaign as it takes steps to shed its much-criticized image Mary Hanbury Ali Tate attends the. “Barbara Palvin is being called the first ‘plus-sized’ Victoria’s Secrets Angel” read a headline on digital news platform When in Manila, whilst a second, which ran on Inquisitr, began with “Barbara Palvin is being praised for body diversity after becoming VS angel.”. According to headlines, the appointment of Palvin has also provided the lingerie brand with another first: its first plus-size angel. Barbara Palvin is 25 years old and comes from Hungary - in fact, she is the first Hungarian to be bestowed a pair of VS wings.
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