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I'm sure Candice renewed, although I wouldn't be surprised if she negotiated a much less demanding contact. She had a couple of posts about VS around the show so it seemed like she honestly was missing being there, and both her and Bee said they couldn't wait for the next year. Lais and Elsa are both in the Caribbean. I wonder if it's for VS, though I'm not sure what it could be without swim.

Alanna, Georgia, and Grace were definitely my favourite newbies. I also loved Dilone's energy, but as much as I liked her I don't think she would work well outside of Pink. I'd love for her to be given the chance to walk for mainline though.

That's why I'm not going to take the tags too seriously. MJ seems all over the place with it, and to have a location of all rookies seems less believable than another model search. That would also put us at 9 (10 if you count Mia) rookies, which I can't see happening.

But the other 3 girls weren't tagged rookies, and they're not anyone who has shot before.

SI Swim 2017 Location #1 (Location Unknown) ph: Walter Chin 1) 2) Location #2 (Curacao-Caribbean) 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) Chrissy Teigen (Matches confirmed location.) 2) 3) (Rookie #3) 4) (Rookie #4) Location #5 (Fiji) ph: Yu Tsai 1) 2) 3) (Rookie #5) 4) Location #6 (Unknown - Mexico?) ph: Ruven Afanador 1) 2) 3) 4) I'm going to look at some of the new casting calls and see if any of them line up with girls from location 3. Seems weird to me that we haven't been able to ID any of them. How many rookies were there last year? I feel like there has to be another location still. The numbers seem small.

ELLE US January 2017 ph: Terry Tsiolis

Also I'm all for size inclusion but com'mon Ashley... She has her own lingerie line that took jabs at VS own marketing campaign (I'm no Angel) and then says "VS call me!! I'm right here!"

They almost never have those sizes in store, and they definitely don't have that size range in most of their styles. I also find that they fit quite small in their panties and VSX bottoms. I wear a size 2 and find their XS panties uncomfortable at times so I can't believe their XL would fit a size 16 comfortably at all. Ditto on their VSX- I buy an XS in them and it's pretty equivalent to other brands,so I'm not sure where you're getting that they run bigger and stretchier.

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).