Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025: Return to ‘Super Sexy’ with Irina Shayk and Emily Ratajkowski

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will take place on Wednesday after a six year hiatus.

The brand has gone back to being super sexy after years of going ‘woke,’ Daily Mail has learned. 

‘It will be very glitzy and sensual,’ a source told Daily Mail. ‘It’s a return to the old style where women looked their very best. There will be less emphasis on shock value and more on all the pretty.

‘They want the runway to sizzle again because they need to ramp up sales.’ 

And that means the very famous bombshells are back. So far Irina Shayk, Adriana Lima, Emily Ratajkowski, Lily Aldridge, Barbara Palvin, Behati Prinsloo and Joan Smalls are all onboard.

A Brit also managed to squeeze in: Iris Law, the daughter of Jude Law and Sadie Frost.

And Patrick Schwarzenegger’s new wife Abby Champion was also spied backstage. 

Euphoria actress Barbie Ferreira will be there too.

It has also been hinted that Alessandra Ambrosio, Ashley Graham, Candice Swanepoel, Doutzen Kroes, Paloma Elsesser, Stella Maxwell and Taylor Hill will be in attendance.

There may also been guest appearances by Bella Hadid and Heidi Klum. No word yet if Kendall Jenner or Gigi Hadid will step onto the runway. 

This year’s VS Fashion Show will be livestreamed on Amazon Live and all of Victoria’s Secret’s social media platforms. 

The performers set to take the stage are Karol G, Missy Elliott, Madison Beer, and Twice, a K-pop girl group. 

An athlete will make her debut: WNBA star Angel Reese. 

Announced back in July, the show will be taking place in New York City, at the brand’s flagship store on 640 Fifth Avenue. 

The show starts 7 p.m. ET. 

Their woke rebrand fell flat with viewers dubbing it ‘boring’ and ‘lackluster,’ two words that would never have been used to describe the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in its glory days.

The problems started many years ago when employees of the company alleged that ex-top executive Ed Razek, 77, was unprofessional on several occasions.

Razek, who was one of the top executives at L Brands, the parent company of VS, had claims of sexual assault made against him.

According to the New York Times, he attempted to kiss models, asked them to sit on his lap and touched one’s crotch before the 2018 runway show.

Andi Muise claimed the brand had stopped hiring her to model at fashion shows after she rejected Razek’s advances.

Aged 19, she was invited to a dinner with him. Muise was picked up in a chauffeured car and said Razek attempted to kiss on the way to the restaurant.

The newspaper said it saw emails exchanged between the pair, in which he suggested she move into his home in Turks and Caicos.

Casey Crowe Taylor, a former public relations employee at Victoria’s Secret, said she had witnessed Razek’s behaviour.

She told the outlet: ‘This abuse was just laughed off and accepted as normal. It was almost like brainwashing.

‘And anyone who tried to do anything about it wasn’t just ignored. They were punished.’

At a fashion shoot in 2015, she claimed Razek looked her up and down when she went to get seconds during a company buffet lunch.

Crowe Taylor – who was 5ft 10in and weighed 10 stone – then said she was ‘berated’ about her weight and said that Razek told her to lay off the pasta and bread.

Although she complained to HR about the interaction, she said that as far as she was aware, no action was taken, leading to her resignation.

Employees also said Les Wexner, Victoria’s Secret 87-year-old billionaire chief executive, mocked the retail industry’s efforts to embrace a variety of body types by allegedly saying, ‘Nobody goes to a plastic surgeon and says, ‘Make me fat.’

Alyssa Miller, who occasionally modelled for the lingerie company, said Razek ‘exuded toxic masculinity.’

During a fitting in 2018, Bella Hadid was being measured for underwear that would be appropriate to air on television ahead of the runway show.

Workers who were there at the time claimed Razek was sat watching the fitting and said, ‘Forget the panties,’ adding that the bigger question was whether broadcasting standards would allow Hadid to walk ‘down the runway with those perfect titties’.

Razek released this statement at the time and declined to respond to specific allegations: ‘The accusations in this reporting are categorically untrue, misconstrued or taken out of context.

‘I’ve been fortunate to work with countless, world-class models and gifted professionals and take great pride in the mutual respect we have for each other.’

During the 90s, Jeffrey Epstein was an adviser to Wexner, posing as a recruiter to access young models, according to a New York Times exposé.

Insurance executive Robert Meister introduced Wexner to Epstein in the 80s, with the newspaper stating that the VS boss ‘authorized him to borrow money on his behalf, to sign his tax returns, to hire people and to make acquisitions’.

In 1997, Alicia Arden, then 27 years old, was invited into a hotel room by Epstein where she thought they would be discussing the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.

But she told the documentary, Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons, that the disgraced businessman grabbed and attempted to undress her.