Read the Insider fashion column in today's Sunday Telegraph. It's written by the editor of Australian Vogue. Never read the column until today, but wow was this woman talking out of her arse.
She was bitching about how she thinks that Victoria's Secret lingerie is tacky and the models nothing more than glorified glamour models a'la Jordan, better suited for Playboy. How did she come to this conclusion? She saw the VS Parade and was pissed off at seeing women she didn't consider good enough for the catwalk parading up and down. And why didn't she think they belonged on the catwalk? Because they had tits, hips and arses. Because these models looked like they ate normal meals and had more mainstream looks instead if high fashion looks, she didn't think they belonged in a fashion parade that are "principally a big perv fest for men". In her high and mighty opinion, lingerie models were lesser entities and were to be looked down upon compared to high fashion models.
Well, I don't know about most women, but I find the idea of women with tits and hips modelling lingerie to be much more appealing than seeing them on a stick insect. As for her criticisms regarding the parade as nothing more than a big perv fest for the benefit of males, I am a female and I enjoy watching the shows each year. They're fun, funky and the models are so relaxed that they obviously just have a great old time dressing up in costumes for the show. Because just like a high fashion couture show, one does not expect these outfits to be worn on a regular day to day basis. And I'd rather see a girl in wings than some fashion model wearing a cage around her head while she parades around in an outfit more suited to a baglady.
As for the VS products themselves being tacky, she's obviously never bothered to lower herself by going to a VS store while in the US. If she did, she'd see that there is a mix of brightly coloured and the more standard looking lingerie that women of any age can wear. The parades are like a couture show. The actual products sold in stores and online are everyday wear which are not only super comfortable, but make you feel good. I should know. I've worn no other bra other than the Victoria's Secret bras I bought there last September and I absolutely love them.
I find it interesting too that she published her opinion in a city newspaper instead of the Editor's column in Vogue. Clearly she doesn't want to piss off her American counterpart. God knows VS probably advertise in American Vogue. I doubt they think VS is unworthy of their good opinion.
Oh, and in response to her no high fashion model criticisms, I have two words for her: Heidi Klum.
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