The 50-year-old mannequin, who was as soon as a staple of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runways, made her grand return to the catwalk on October 15 for the revamped presentation, which was resuscitated following the model’s very public downfall and subsequent rebranding.
Banks closed the present in a black bra and bedazzled corset, which was paired with a shocking silver cape that she modeled the heck out of, to nobody’s shock.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 15: Tyra Banks walks the runway for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2024 on October 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria’s Secret)Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The former America’s Next Top Model host and inventor of the “smize” was one in all a number of returning fashions who had retired their Angel wings below Victoria’s Secret’s earlier administration, together with Candice Swanepoel, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, and Alessandra Ambrosio. Millennial Angels like Joan Smalls, Josephine Skriver, Taylor Hill, Behati Prinsloo, Jasmine Tookes, and Gigi and Bella Hadid, who dominated the VS Pink period, additionally returned to the runway.
Of be aware, transgender fashions Alex Consani and Victoria Sampaio additionally walked the VS Fashion Show. This comes six years after the model’s former chief advertising and marketing officer made transphobic feedback in a Vogue interview, triggering main modifications on the firm. The remarks have been thought-about the tipping level for the model, which was already below fireplace for his or her slender magnificence beliefs. In 2019, after 24 years, Victoria’s Secret shelved their annual trend present and launched into a rebrand.
When they introduced their return in May 2024, the corporate promised a extra inclusive presentation. In addition to history-making fashions Consani and Sampaio, Ashley Graham and Paloma Elsesser, two plus-size fashions, made their VS Fashion Show debut final night time.
While Tyra Banks’s VS Fashion Show return feels a bit like déjà vu, we are able to say with certainty that this isn’t 2004’s Victoria’s Secret. But, was it successful? That’s still up in the air.
