The iconic Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is coming back for 2025, promising some new and returning favorites.
On July 29 the brand announced that the show would be returning for another year with a cheeky tease across social media, Victoria’s Secret set fans’ hearts pounding. “Lights, Camera, Angels: The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025 is returning,” the brand wrote alongside an Instagram video of a few of the models tapping a microphone for attention. The video also encouraged fans to go to the Victoria’s Secret app for more insider information.
Prior to last year’s return, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show had a six-year hiatus, stopping after the 2018 show and returning in late 2024. The show was canceled in 2019 due to declining viewership, criticism for a lack of inclusivity and body positivity, and controversy surrounding the brand.
Now, as People reports, the first few models that will strut down the catwalk during the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show have been revealed — and the list contains several fan favorites and familiar faces!
The lingerie brand showed the first six models that will appear in the show in another social media reveal via Instagram. The caption read, “The first six angels hitting the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025 runway are…” The video featured the brand’s signature black text that read “the secret is out,” before zooming out to Adriana Lima, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge and Yumi Nu all wearing black lingerie and fluffy white angel wings.
Fans in the comments section of the post shared their hopes for which models they’d like to see on the catwalk, as well as what they expected from the runway show this year. “PLEASE bring back the old VS runaways with tons of glitter, bouncy hair and flawless makeup!!! We all really miss them,” one fan wrote. Another user added that they hoped to see the return of the brand’s “bombshell glitter aesthetic.”
Yai and Consani return after making their Angel debut at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Consani’s casting made history, as she was the first-ever trans model to walk the runway for Victoria’s Secret. Though Aldridge did not participate in the 2024 show — which took place last year on Oct. 15 at Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York — she walked in each iteration of the program between 2009 and 2017.
Adriana Lima made her debut at the Victoria’s Secret show in 1999 and walked in a total of 18 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows before retiring in 2018 — the veteran Angel dusted off her wings and returned for the 2024 show. Though not a veteran, Smalls appeared in every Victoria’s Secret Fashion show from 2011 to 2016; she also returned for the 2024 program.
The 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show marks Nu’s first time walking down the runway for the brand, though she was seen attending a casting for the 2024 show. She previously appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in 2022.
The 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will air on Wednesday, October 15, at 7:00 PM EST / 4:00 PM PST. The show will be held live in New York City, but you can watch the event on the Victoria’s Secret official YouTube channel, the Amazon Prime Video platform, or the Victoria’s Secret’s official VS Insider page.
—
Photo Credit: Sky Cinema / Shutterstock.com