They are back with a loud freakin’ BANG. We are as shocked as you are with the improvement and growth of the VS show every year…and it was a no brainer when Taylor Swift performed…AGAIN along with Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran and Hozier.
Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Hozier and Taylor Swift
What makes the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2014 so special is their launch of Fantasy Bras. Let us get this straight, we are already drooling over the Angels’ bodies and winks and fantasizing about them and now all that with Fantasy Bras? Are they trying to explode our brains!!! Whatever it is, hats off to the lady who gives us this magnificent show every year and makes it worth EVERYONE’s while. If you haven’t cancelled important plans with the boyfriend, meeting at work or a wedding for this then we don’t know where to begin to explain how disappointing it is (just kidding).
What are Fantasy Bras you ask? They are bras encrusted in diamonds, rubies, sapphires and 18k gold! You down for some beautiful angel-ness?Lez do disss…
Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio
The VS show this year had naughty and nice. Greek gold goddesses with enormous angel wings,
aaaaand a whole lotta naughtiness in leopard prints, colors and punk!
Ming Xi and Josephine Skriver
JAc Jagaciak and Kelly Gale
A team of 30 makeup artists with the legendary Dick Page (worked three shows) worked their magic on 47 Angels who set the ramp on fire with their charisma and perfectly curled hair by hairstylist Akki who claims to have added extensions for volume and stuck eight BIG rollers on each model! WOW.
Akki and Karlie KlossDaniela Braga and Maria Borges
Combination of eye shadows with barely there bronzer, no false lashes and nude gloss is all they decked the models in because according to Dick Page, “You don’t look at a whole set of gorgeous girls and change them”. Hear, hear.
Cindy Bruna, Kate Grigorieva and Adriana Lima
Agreed that we are blown to another universe after the show like every year but the Angels wow-ed us with their dresses for the after party at Earl Court in London (where the show also took place).
Besties Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss at the Victoria’s Secret after partyAlessandra Ambrosio and Adriana LimaBehati Prinsloo and Lily Donaldson
According to WWD, yesterday’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show raised an impressive $2.5 million for charities including the American Cancer Society, Pelotonia and Gabriel’s Angels through ticket sales.
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2013 blew NYC and the rest of the world away last week. Besides being one of the most awaited shows…nay extravagant…on the fashion and style landscape, it’s probably one of the most widely watched TV event EVERRR. (The Show airs in Australia on Fox 8 soon after it airs on December 10 in the US. And we are not about to miss it!)
Courtesy Getty Images + Taylor Swift Tweets. Photographer: Dimitrios Kambouris.
Exuberant colours, over the top styling, bling, crystals, wings, star studs made the Victoria’s Secret night. The event was a culmination of about a year of conceptualising, planning and preparation and happened at Manhattan’s Lexington Armory. With six separate sub themes running – British Invasion, Birds of Paradise, Parisian Nights, Shipwrecked, Snow Angels and PINK Network, it was a potpourri of fantastical decadence.
The first few shows were aired in the 1990s around Valentine’s Day for brand promotion. By 2001, the show made its network television broadcast on ABC, and has been broadcast on CBS ever since. The first 4s hows were held at the Plaza Hotel NYC and then subsequently it has most often been held at the 69th Regiment Armory in the city.
This Venue is bound by 25th and 26th Streets and Lex and Park Avenues in NYC. Originally built in 20th century, it was to be a training centre for National Guard. Needless to mention that a building of that history, a show of that magnitude and valuables (in form of fineries) called for the NYPD security to be the gatekeeper with K-9 patrolling and private security. What Victoria’s Secret created inside, in the otherwise stern looking building, was a star-studded affair with the biggest names across the board. On the catwalk, debutantes Malaika Firth and Josephine Skriver were first timers. The ramp was a 120 ft sparkler with the most famous Angels walking- Alessandra Ambrosio, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge, Behati Prinsloo, and Karlie Kloss. We did note that Miranda Kerr was MIA this year.
The “BRA”SSTACKS –
Total Angels: 36
Venue: 69 Regiment Armory
Budget: Approx $12mm
Production: done and dusted, inc. with producers Edward G. Razek, Monica Mitro, Ian Stewart and Hamish Hamilton. Interestingly one of their offices is in a place called India House in NYC.
Direction: Hamish Hamilton
Make Up: Dick Page and VS products only.
Skin care: BeachSexy bronzing and Runway Ready Body Care products.
Hair: Orlando Pita, international celebrity hair and fashion stylist
Publication: GraziaDaily was given an all access pass to the show.
Man Behind the Make up – Dick Page (http://www.access-fashion.com/)The Buzz around entrance of the Show at the Armory Courtesy: Daniel Goodman Business Insider Story on Victoria’s Secret 2013 ShowModel Lindsay Ellingson (Photo -Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Swarovski) + Super Model Adriana Lima (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)Model Alessandra Ambrosio Source: Dimitrios Kambouris + Jamie McCArthy /Getty Images North America) in 2 separate changes/FameFLynet.uk.com
BULB BURNER HIGHLIGHTS
*The Show stopper (almost) was by seven time GRAMMY winner, 23 year old: Taylor Swift, who donned a super crystal outfit and performed with rock band Fall Out Boy. She wore a flitted sexy sparkler by designer Zuhair Murad and a Union Jack inspired dress. This is practically the new virus on the internet besides pictures of her belting out her hit ” I Knew You Were Trouble”
*Other super performances on stage were Award-nominated artist Fall Out Boy, A Great Big World and Neon Jungle .
*Adrianna Lima’s costume was no less a wonder. She wore an insane fill sleeved crop jacket type “Pearl Queen body suit with over 3,000 pearl buttons sown in to create her outfit.
*South African Angel Candice Swanepoel wore the Fantasy Bra, designed by International jewellery company Mouwad worth an estimated $10 mm, held 4,200 precious gems encased in 18-carat gold setting with a 52-carat pear-shaped ruby that adorned the middle of the bra. By way of records, the $15 million price tag for the 2000 bra worn by Gisele Bündchen earned a place in the Guinness World Records as the most expensive lingerie ever created.The $3 million 2009 Harlequin Fantasy Bra and the $2 million 2010 Bombshell Fantasy Bra were designed by Damiani.
Model Candice Swanepoel wearing $10mm Fantasy Bra.Courtesy Daily Mail Reported / Copyright Victoria’s Secret – http://dailym.ai/I6fQEW
The After Part at TAO
TAO, one of our favourite bars in the whole world was the venue for the after party.The event was a star studded affair, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Fall Out Boy, Ciara, Dylan McDermott and Stephen Dorff as just a few names of attendees.We remember catching up with a few old friends a year ago and TAO was then relatively a NY after hours scene but we can only say so much about what happened this night. But allow us to say…really nicely sectioned out. You walk into a lounge bar area with service to the left and loose seating. You keep walking into the main hall which faces a gigantic seated buddha and 1st floor seating which borders the sides so you can have a fantabulous view of the action below. On a typical day there are dinner seatings both above and below, but we am sure for this night they cleared the house out.
After Party Pics at TAO Nyc: Craig Barritt: Full Courtesy JustJared.Com/Tao/
AWESOME FACTS
We turned to Wiki to cross check. You might want to know that in the initial 2001 airing, ABC blurred the screen on particularly sheer lingerie to achieve the TV-14 rating. In 2002, the National Organization for Women and Parents Television Council protested the show calling it a “soft-core porn” infomercial. Nonetheless, some affiliates have chosen not to air the show in past years including Fisher Broadcasting affiliates in Idaho. London Broadcasting Company in Texas refuses to air the show. even today . In 2009, the American Decency Association organized email letters of protests to sponsors of the show including AT&T, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Netflix, Nikon, and Reebok.
After having seen all these and read, have you ever wondered who and how the insane Wings are made? According to a recent quip given to elle.com, the team of 9 apparently called Killer- Angel Wing Makers – Elle asked “About how long does it to take to put together one pair of wings? The really big ones can take as much as 400 hours. A tiny wing can take 20 or 30, depends on what kind of construction”. Whaaaat!? Read more: http://bit.ly/1djEwrd
This team and the key lady behind it seems super discreet and needless to say why. The Angel Wings is the key element besides a super glam show and theatrical decadence that sets it apart.
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