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    That's the great thing about BZ, you can see all her work going back to when she was a teenager to now. It's pretty obvious that it's more lucrative to be a glamour model than to be a HF type, plenty of extremely waifish girls out there, many who are taller and skinnier. Being glamour also has more longevity because it is much harder to stay with the HF look in one's mid to late 20's even with rigorous workouts. It is interesting that she is sliding from standard commercial modeling over to glamour and now towards softcore. You can't be 25 forever so she's taking full advantage.

    VS has no obligation to work with anyone, there are dozens of high quality photographers that don't have accusations against them. This isn't a court of law, although it was awkward when Lais decided to name the incident instead of just generally saying "a big name photographer" which might have avoided the clapback. 

    That news article points to serious concerns between the connection between Ed Razek and Jeffrey Epstein and how Epstein used his connections to Ed to get young women to participate in his depravity. 

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-29/victoria-s-secret-has-more-than-a-jeffrey-epstein-problem

     

    As far as I can tell and have read Ed just has a fatherly attachment to the models, he is not an abuser. Although some on Twitter are rethinking why Megan Puleri showed up all of a sudden in 2015 (and her career has gone absolutely nowhere), I feel it is more Epstein using VS and Razek than the other way around. Other than that and when they did that disastrous open model casting call, the women that walk in VSFS are established models with years of work elsewhere. There is the general unpleasantness between certain photographers used and models (cough Greg Kadel) but IMHO no more so than the rest of the industry. Epstein uses his connection to big names to lure girls in, knowing they would have only a marginal chance at VS or other modeling and maybe getting them a placement or two as a cover. 

     

    Interesting article about how further connections to Epstein could sink L Brands (the parent company)'s stock price. 

    https://medium.com/@erdorsey2/is-jeffrey-epstein-victorias-secret-d7c8f02f98fb

    It's pretty obvious they went to white wall, rather than staged backgrounds or the pricey on location shoot, to save money. If they try to have more "real" models they are going to just look like knocking off Aerie, so they have to stick to the way it is now, maybe with the occasional larger model (i.e. Lorena Duran, who is not much more "plus size" than Laetitia Casta was 20 years ago). Don't expect much different in the future.