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I'm assuming you're saying the location is Mexico. Kinda was the understatement of the year. What makes you think it's Mexico?

You never said anything about a location.

What I don't understand is why Romee even got a boob job. She was cast for the show and had her Angel contract before she went for the surgery(afaik). It wasn't like she thought she needed them to secure her position with VS, or she was less well endowed than girls like Elsa or Stella and had to "compete." I guess she must think it gave her an edge up, but it was pretty unnecessary imo. Speaking of diversity, does anyone know what Alanna's background is? I'm not sure if she's mixed at all.

The VS contracts are super exclusive (at least they used to be before VS cut out a ton of their product lines) and demand a lot of the model's time(probably less now that they have 14 Angels to the 6-8 they used to have). It makes sense that a lot of these girls with good HF careers and solid commercial work would turn down VS.

By what reasoning? Not saying you're not correct but why? Edit: Just realized that Vanessa is based in Hawaii, so that would explain her posts.

Yeah, I think there will be one more shoot in January. I think Hailey and Bo's first shoot was promo of some kind. Also, it'a definitely Hawaii for the last location. That crew member geotagged Kauai in her IG post yesterday.

SI Swim 2017 Location #1 (Location Unknown) ph: Walter Chin 1) 2) Location #2 (Curacao) ph: Ben Watts 1) (Rookie #1) 2) 3) 4) 5) (Rookie #2) Location #3 (Unknown)Possible Model Search? ph: Unknown 1) Model #1 Unknown - Teaser 1 2) Model #2 Unknown - Teaser 1, Teaser 2 3) Model #3 Unknown - , , Teaser 3 4) Model #4 Unknown - Location #4 (Sumba Island- Bali) ph: James Macari 1) (Matches confirmed location.) 2) 3) (Rookie #3) 4) (Rookie #4) Location #5 (Unknown - Possibly Fiji?) ph: Yu Tsai 1) 2) 3) (Rookie #5) 4) B Location #6 (Unknown - possibly Hawaii?) ph: Ruven Afanador 1) Hannah Davis 2) Nina Agdal 3) Robyn Lawley 4) Mia Kang The fact that we've successfully ID'd every girl except the 3rd location definitely makes me think it's a model search, plus non of the girls were tagged as rookies. I'll update this with the pictures after work tonight if I have the time.

I think we ruled out Emily D because this shoot was during Fashion Week and she was actively posting from NY the entire duration of the shoot. I think @peroxideblonde is right and that 3rd location was a model search, since they didn't have any returning models that we could ID. Did the model search girls from last year have casting calls?

My Angel line up(being realistic and only using girls VS is actually working with rn) would be: Candice, Adriana, Taylor, Elsa, Jasmine, Jo, with Grace for Pink and moving up to mainline. If I'm allowed to dream I'd also have Kelly Gale as an Angel to round it off, finally get an Asian Angel in there. I love Lais and Sara but I think having a smaller lineup is a much better move for VS if they want to gain that recognition back with that Angel status. I think Ale, Lily, Martha, Romee and Stella should all go, even if I'm a fan of some of the girls. They're really too heavy on the blondes with the current line up.

No, they're shooting a Tory Burch campaign.

The styling/art direction on her Liu shoot is a little plain but wow, her body is on fire.

The bad roots look like Nina.

I finally rewatched the show and paid more attention this time and my thoughts: Spoiler cause it's long.

He's also Elsa's ex. This guy must have some major pull, two VS girls in a row.

Love those sets of BTS photos! Thanks Pinky. Jourdana looked great in the second set.

She was just tagging the designer the swimsuit she was wearing in that particular snap.

I think there might be another one in January but I think Gigi is out. Irina is obviously out now that she's pregnant and since she has her ten years, I doubt she'll return after the baby. I think Chanel, Erin, Lily are gone as well, as well as the rookies from last year who haven't shot yet (Tanya, Sofia).

I was thinking the same thing when I saw her snap story today.

I'm not a Kendall/Gigi/whatever fan either but to blame the entire demise of VS and the show on them is just ridiculous. Three girls out of 50 are not going to make or break the show, and honestly if people didn't want to see them, TRHW and KUWTK wouldn't be going into their billionth season. The small niche of people that follow VS and models might turn their nose at them, but the average American probably doesn't give a shit how those girls got their spots. Case in point: most of my friends that were over yesterday and don't follow fashion closely loved Gigi, and loved seeing Bella and Abel. I agree that moving networks would be a smart move for them, or at least looking into live streaming it. CBS could live stream it and include the commercials to keep up their revenue. The CW would be a good fit as well, although I think that network has a smaller reach/audience.

I don't think these were posted. If they're reposts I'll delete them.

Holy shit. Lui cover! I love the solo picture of her in her preshow dress.

IG Followers Increases Adriana - 8,979,490 > 9,035,308 (+55,818) Alessandra - 7,477,092 > 7,501,544 (+24,452) Elsa - 2,975,451 > 3,000,527 (+25,076) Jasmine - 1,520,952 > 1,536,070 (+15,118) Josephine - 2,839,555 > 2,886,653 (+47,098) Lais - 938,330 > 945,469 (+7,139) Lily - 4,612,552 > 4,622,834 (+10,282) Martha - 2,234,618 > 2,244,919 (+10,301) Sara - 4,378,002 > 4,400,779 (+22,777) Stella - 2,233,611 > 2,243,573 (+9,962) Romee - 2,380,436 > 2,396,091 (+15,655) Taylor - 5,815,854 > 5,856,845 (+40,991) Grace - 82,741 > 86,635 (+3,895) Rachel - 431,792 > 433,109 (+1,317) Zuri - 36,817 > 37,740 (+923) Highest to lowest is: Adriana, Josephine, Taylor, Elsa, Alessandra, Sara, Romee, Jasmine, Martha, Lily, Stella, Lais, Grace, Rachel, Zuri. The numbers are pretty much where I assumed they would be given the screen time each girl got and how popular they were already. Grace didn't grow as much as I expected, but damn. Compared to the other two Pink girls? Knocked them out of the water.

Their social media team calls everyone an Angel when they reply to customers.

^ Lmao that's not a VS shoot. She's just tagging them for attention/she's wearing their lingerie but they're definitely not paying her. And yes, thank you! I already use socialblade.

I am going to 100% have to rewatch this when a torrent is out because there were 8 of us crammed in my living room and I couldn't focus on the show over all my friends reactions to the show/performers. Some thoughts on what I did see: - WTF was Taylor doing with her arms in both her walks. I'm guessing she was trying to show off the outfits but she looked like she was trying to take flight in TRA. - Gaga was a joke. Literally all of the girls I had over were laughing when she was on screen with her crazy "dance" moves. Songs didn't fit the runway either imo. - Pink was really fun. The energy was there and some of the girls were fantastic. I liked how cohesive the segment looked, even if the actual outfits were a little iffy. - The Hadid sisters crying about walking together was more touching for me than Jo's crying. - Georgia's BNA outfit needed wings. It was super gorgeous but it seemed to be lacking something. Also, more Georgia thanks. - Unpopular opinion, but I didn't hate the editing. I need to rewatch the show before I can comment on anything else. I am going to make myself some tea and then tally up the IG increases shortly for anyone interested.