Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is always a grand affair, drawing millions worldwide. This extravagant event is followed by a live show of popular musicians and concludes with the long-awaited unveiling of the new Fantasy Bra, an extremely expensive bra encrusted with gemstones.
The arrangements for this lavish show last at least one year, and celebrities and other carefully chosen people are invited to attend.
Filming takes place a few days before the television premiere. Until 2013, all of Victoria’s Secret shows were performed in the United States and once in Cannes, France. In recent years, the show’s locations have extended dramatically to parts of Europe and Asia.
In the past, months of rigorous physical exercise and dieting were done, and now they have just a few days to finalize their preparation and do their best to look beautiful on the runway.
The show is filmed twice on the appointed day to get the best shots on record.
Flight
Models ride on a pink plane to the destination to match the company’s theme. Sponsors, operators, global mass media reporters, bloggers, and other individuals involved in the show process, along with the models, also travel on the same plane.
All models wear clothes created specifically for the flight because photoshoots for mass and social media start as soon as the aircraft takes off.
The members receive gift sets on the plane and pink blankets with symbols of Victoria’s Secret.
Pink robes
Models pose for cameras behind the curtains and take selfies in pink robes that have become an irreplaceable feature of the show backstage. These robes can be bought on the official website before the show to make you feel like an ‘angel’.
The team
It is unclear how many people are working to coordinate the show. It’s massive, though, as the beauty team comprises around 100 people.
The number of cosmetic products used to prepare a model for the show is surprising, with more than 40 hairspray bottles and about 150 lipgloss items.
Tan
The perfect skin tone matters and a professional oversee it. He begins working 1-2 days before the show with some models and 1 day before the show with others. His job for each model is to find the ideal sound. Moreover, he contours those body parts to accentuate them.
Face massage
To have the facial muscles toned, makeup artists offer acupressure, a special form of massage, before applying the makeup. As professional cosmetics do, it works just as well.
Makeup artists use ice cubes covered in a thin cloth to clean the faces of the models and pay particular attention to the delicate eye region to ‘trigger’ the skin immediately and reduce swelling.
Makeup
The make-up and hairstyling process takes about 5 hours on the day of the broadcast. Makeup artists produce eye-enhancing, realistic images. They use an eyelash curler to curl their eyelashes, add multiple coats of mascara, and use a grey-brown liner to do this.
Hairdos
An entire specialist team works hard on the hairstyles of the models. They use a special design called “beach waves” that looks like natural waves produced by the wind. To look even more natural, hair tongs are used to curl the locks no more than a couple of seconds and each in different directions.
Food
The Secret Fashion Show of Victoria can be very tough on all of its participants. On account of the encrusted gemstones, some ‘angel’ wings can weigh up to 44 lbs. In order to get through the back-to-back photoshoots and shooting, it is important to have enough stamina when taking this heavy ‘accessory’ into account. This is why, before the runway show begins, models like to eat something healthy, like an energy bar or a sandwich on whole-grain bread.
Journalists claim, however, that there is a major choice of food that is not always safe and behind the curtains, there is also alcohol occasionally.
Fantasy Bra
A new model is selected each year to wear the luxurious gemstone bra. This year, Brazilian model Lais Ribeiro introduced the Fantasy Bra, estimated to cost about $2 million. This masterpiece took 350 hours of hard work to create.
