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Hi kimflorida and welcome back, I was just ID'ing Imaam based on her presence in the recent VS campaigns. If Ylang migrates to white wall photos then we should be able to get a confirmation. 

I think #3 is Imaan Hammam.

On 2/19/2024 at 7:18 AM, ihcarla said:

Who is she?

You got it answered elsewhere, but for the record it's Alexandra Pekarkova.

#4 Lily Aldridge

On 4/2/2024 at 2:52 PM, Jcruze342 said:

Thank you! How exactly do you view source?

On Chrome, right click, click "inspect", network (may need to press reload), find the URL that starts with https://api.victoriassecret.com/products/v28/page/ and open that file and search for "modelInformation".

On 3/27/2024 at 2:11 PM, Jcruze342 said:

Name?

 

Alicia Olivas

https://www.instagram.com/alicia_olivasl

https://www.naturalmodelsla.com/portfolios/alicia-olivas/digitals

 

Remember, when VS identifies the first name of a model, you can view source and find the last name and their full measurements.

11 hours ago, Gabe224 said:

The lingerie of Victoria’s Secret has declined so much the past 10 years. It’s too generic now. The Bras and Panties used to have cute designs. Now they are just plain 😭

 

I think the lingerie is fundamentally the same, it's just the photography for a paper catalogue is much different than a white wall for e-commerce. They used to use the same photos for the catalogue as for the web but when they discontinued the catalogue they went to the white wall. Venus will sometimes stick fake beach backgrounds to provide some variety, but the focus is really on selling the product and sometimes putting the model in a seductive pose may distract or backfire on the target audience. 

I have a gigantic collection of downloads from the era when the pictures were on 380 x 512 to the present, so spanning decades. I'm looking for the best way to present them and sort them, as some of the pictures were sorted when Nodescans had done it, while the others are unsorted. There are archival issues though, since sometimes the file names don't change but the model they use to show off the clothing changes, there's different croppings used, etc. The current system identifies models at times but the identification is sometimes inaccurate or doesn't change when the model used in the photo changed. (I have a script that lets me pull off the photos from the web site periodically.) The other issue is that AI identification and grouping of photos is still not there yet, although I need to try the paid version of Photoshop which supposedly does wonders in organization. 

On 1/23/2024 at 5:00 PM, tpirmodels said:

And who is this incredibly beautiful new model for this year?

Cassie Amato

https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/49608-cassie-amato/

On 1/21/2024 at 11:14 AM, themoonandthestars said:

Does anyone know who this fabulously beautiful girl is?

 

Glen

 

Staci Lyon

 

Bare Necessities

Lots of Bare Necessities recently.

 

Thank you!

 

She has a "Made in Hungary" tattoo on her arm. I know I've seen her before but can't put a name. Thanks!

 

Reverse search shows 3 as Sofija Milosevic, but I'm not 100% sure.

On 3/15/2019 at 2:29 PM, drod2070 said:

Ashley Sara Haas

 

 

 

To me that actually looks more like Andrea Cronberg. 

Breanna Ivy

https://www.instagram.com/breannaivy/

Interesting review from a Washington Post columnist, one of those who wanted VS to go into the inclusion direction:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2023/09/26/victorias-secret-fashion-show-world-tour-film-jennyfax/

 

 

If that all sounds a bit vague and unfocused, that’s because it is. The film is part extended fashion show-as-music video, part gonzo experimental documentary, part cringingly unfunny Gigi Hadid voice-over open-mic hour. And perhaps more critically, the abandonment of every last vestige of the old format muddles the message about how exactly the brand has changed its philosophy; one wonders watching “The Tour” if Victoria’s Secret thought the joyful, cartoonish sex appeal itself was more of a problem than the insistence that only a select few types and sizes of people are sexy. (To its credit, “The Tour” does feature a much more diverse array of models.)

 

She liked the end, where they were wearing mashups of past VS undergarments like a quilt, but that was it. 

 

Overall, I would agree with the assessment though, they can never go full inclusion like Aerie, Venus, AdoreMe, etc. but they feel the need to appeal to more body types of women. I don't think this will happen next year.

VS/For Love and Lemons

 

She is from the Fort Lauderdale area, before she was a model she was doing the Hooters calendar (and one of the few that made that transition from that to the catwalk). Here are some articles, from when she won Miss Hooters International 2019.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2019/06/21/south-floridas-briana-smith-future-mortician-wins-2019-miss-hooters-international-pageant/

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hooters-calendar-girl-mortician-briana-smith

 

Here are some photos from her time with Hooters:

 

Victoria's Secret

 

VS

#3 is Jocelyn Jimenez

VS UK has been doing cool things with Abbey Clancy, but that brand is owned by Next UK, which does less boring stuff on their e-commerce web site.

I think everyone has gone the e-commerce route of white wall focusing on the product, with some poses for Instagram and/or web site framing (not product specific pages). The only one that still has more interesting poses for e-commerce is Venus.