Most people thought the Victoria’s Secret Angels had followed the Marlboro Man into the graveyard of once great but now toxic advertising icons. Not so fast. On October 15 the Angels will be back in a new fashion show in New York.
It’s tempting to dismiss the extravaganza as the last feathery wing and a prayer for an anti-feminist relic that died of sleaze. Les Wexner, its former boss, was revealed to have close financial and social ties to the financier Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted child sex offender who died in prison. Epstein posed as a Victoria’s Secret model scout to meet and sexually assault young girls.
But the most remarkable plotline of the Victoria’s Secret drama is how popular its collections continue to be..
