Talk:Victoria's Secret

Elsa Hosk
Dear VSfan88, while it has been reported by several sites that she may be an Angel, so have plenty of models, such as Monikangana Dutta, Emanuela De Paula, Toni Garnn and many many more. However non of them have been listed on VS All Access's Supermodel page where every single Victoria's Secret Angel since 2009 has been listed. Until she appears there, please refrain from adding her. I also suggest you read Ownership of articles. Regards 90.35.229.182 (talk) 16:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Victoria's Secret has finally updated the supermodel-list on its website vsallaccess.com and to my very big surprise Elsa Hosk is not included. Even though a lot of actually reliable sources stated she's become an Angel in 2014, she's not an Angel for the moment.--VSfan88 (talk) 17:59, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

There should be photos of Elsa on her page to make it more attractive Parth29singh (talk) 22:58, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

CNBC video could be good as an EL
CNBC produced a video on the company that it hosts on YouTube: This may be a good EL WhisperToMe (talk) 07:37, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Good suggestion. It's a quality video. It has been added as an external link to the direct source at CNBC.  Thanks, Cedar777 (talk) 23:27, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Pseudo-British branding
Until the early 1990s, Victoria's Secret implied it was a British company - not just because of the British-sounding name, but its mail-order catalogs had a phony London return address listed on them and all its TV commercials were voiced by women with posh RP accents. It was a form of foreign branding that the company dropped as it became better known. This would be an important detail to add, but will need to be sourced, such as if someone can retrieve one of the older catalogs. - Pro hib it O ni o ns (T) 16:17, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Angels and sources
The Angels are a part of marketing for the company: Victoria's Secret. The company's article needs to have sourced content, from decent quality reliable sources, if possible. Prior to the update, source quality for the Angels section was very low, and it remains subpar. If some editors find the existing sources are not adequately explaining the distinction between an angel and a prominent model for the brand, there are ways to address this without deleting content and sources. Attribution of which publication lists a series of models as angels, i.e. "According to Vogue Australia . . . "

Alternately the article could clarify the discrepancy with a source i.e. Not all of the company's prominent model are actual angels.

Both modifications would allow for retention of the (sourced) list, but with more clarity. Kind Regards, Cedar777 (talk) 06:01, 11 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Who was an Angel and who was not has been discussed at length on this page. It is pretty clear that ref 178 is bogus as they list Veronica Webb who left VS before the Angel concept was even created. It is also a different list than 179 so one has to be false. Cara Delevingne, Lily Donaldson, Jourdan Dunn, Joan Smalls, Jessica Stam, Bridget Hall and Eva Herzigova never were Angels. All the Angels are sourced in the table below. If you can give me a good reason to retain it, I'd like to read it. 90.96.0.15 (talk) 16:05, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Further clarification is needed as to the source that is considered unusable. Are you referring to Popsugar or the Australian Vogue as “bogus”? What is your source that refutes the unreliable source? I agree that the company does not make it easy to determine who precisely has been an angel and I am all for accuracy in the article. However, it is a mystery as to the reliable sources that refute this list and Wikipedia does not allow editors to contribute original research. Cedar777 (talk) 13:26, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Lack of objective tone in the body-positivity criticism section
The cultural criticism and body positivity section should be edited for a more objective tone. Regardless of the justifiability of the claims, it reads like an activist's statement not an unbiased presentation of body-image criticism of VS. "Girls are comparing themselves with these high unrealistic standards presented by the media" is an unsubstantiated assertion and an embarrassment to objective writing. The entire section is a summary of one article with little justification for this focus and probably should be completely rewritten. D4d5c4 (talk) 06:57, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly agree. Especially in these days, it's not even much of a reliable source anymore to reference articles written by some woke authors. VSfan88 (talk) 22:53, 6 April 2021 (UTC)