Victoria's Secret: angels, demons and 'pieces of meat'

It's official.

After four years of absence from the catwalks, those responsible for Victoria's Secret have just announced that, throughout 2023, they are going to resume their

with some changes, yes, to 'adapt' to changing times.

Beyond the fact that

, little is still known about the new marketing strategy with which the brand hopes to take flight after a couple of disastrous years.

Despite the fact that Ed Razek, the firm's marketing director until he submitted his resignation in 2019, 'alma mater' of the shows and, according to what they say, quite fond of sitting 'his girls'

, got horny in its day of the idea of ​​including

, that 'image wash', which started with the 'signing' of the soccer player Megan Rapinoe and the Indian actress and singer Priyanka Chopra as ambassadors to defend or promote different causes, it goes through becoming an "openly more inclusive" brand.

The challenge, that of 'image laundering', is brought to them because the ghosts that will fly over the next (and highly anticipated) parade of Victoria's 'non-angels' cause a mixture of disgust and fear that is very difficult to digest.

Ghosts like that of the pedophile (party partner of politicians, 'royals' and businessmen, by the way)

, found dead in his cell in New York in 2019. A close friend of Lex Wexner, former owner of the firm, Epstein

of girls to abuse them, as revealed in the documentary '

In this same series, several witnesses recount, among other things, how Razek, seeing Bella Hadid adjusting her underwear, told her to "forget about panties" and then alluded to the perfection of her breasts.

In that 'dark side' of the apparently luminous and colorful universe of Victoria's angels, there are also hidden the

that the models had to undergo to show off those heart-stopping bodies, even shortly after having been mothers. , and that they went through

.

Adriana Lima herself confessed, in an interview with the 'Telegraph', that, nine days before the show, she

and that, in the previous 12 hours, she drank absolutely nothing (and that nothing probably includes water) to prevent fluid retention.

generated by this

has always caught my attention.

, which was compared, in the media, to the Super Bowl.

What's more, I have to confess that I was

to contemplate that bunch of well-rounded (very good, by the way) aunts walking up and down the catwalk,

(and even laughing) left and right as if They were living the happiest moment of their lives while

in a

attitude .

But the most curious thing of all is that I was also entranced looking at their

.

She couldn't believe the length of her

.

He hallucinated with his

without scoring too much (because that 'does not look good' in this sarao).

She freaked out with

And I marveled at the

. Hers.

Of course, I admit that I did not even find out about the 'little sets' of lingerie that they supposedly wore, which makes me think that, in this type of parades, whether we like it or not, the attention is on the meat and not on the fabric

It also makes me remember a crazy journalistic adventure that I lived a long time ago and that, among many other things, helped me to reaffirm something that I was already quite clear from before: being seen as 'a piece of meat' is not cool at

.

For this reason, despite the fact that I respect what everyone wants to do with their body (in this case, a great body), to be honest, I have plenty of

although, after the 'redesign'/'washing of expensive', be without 'angels', inclusive, respectful of the environment, sustainable and all that string of labels that are now attached to things when they want to 'pass off' as 'good'.

Because I'm afraid that, in the end, it will be more of the same: a 'show' designed to

and that's not cool either.

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