The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is an annual fashion show sponsored by Victoria's Secret. The popular shows features tall, beautiful, and skinny models. Viewers both male and female, watch as these models strut their stuff down the runway barely clothed in lingerie and sleepwear. Victoria's Secret uses the show annually to promote their goods in clothing in a high profile setting.
The VS Fashion Show is, for most people, pure entertainment, rather than something to aspire to. Viewers in and out of the fashion industry tune in and appreciate the always outstanding concert and general insanity (I see you, Selena Gomez), and comment on whichever “It Girls” are leading the pack. I mean, who didn’t see that Gigi and Kendall moment coming? The show is the perfect opportunity to celebrate bodies, pop culture, and pageantry. Considering the rah-rah version of feminism that’s so popular today, it almost feels like a required viewing girl power moment.
The show is fun, and that’s just objectively true. However, I think some feminists may have issues stemming from the fact that our definition of “attractive people” is pretty heavily skewed in one direction, and that Victoria’s Secret capitalizes on that. Meanwhile, Aerie, a direct competitor of VS, made the almost definitely not coincidental decision to post this photo right smack in the middle of the VS show’s live broadcast. Aerie’s move away from Photoshop was very public and widely announced, despite the fact that most of its models didn’t "need" retouching to begin with. However, the image was an especially strong departure from the VS standard, and I think it’s safe to say that Aerie intended to grab the attention and support of VS critics.
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