Victoria’s Secret is failing and flailing, despite the fact that their televised fashion show continues to air. Sales for the lingerie store have been declining since 2016 and millennials, who increasingly opt for comfort rather than ’80s-era ideas of sexy leather and lace, have been turning away from the brand. And after reading a new interview in Vogue with chief marketing officer of L Brands, Ed Razek, I’m pretty sure I know who’s at fault for the brand’s falling out with young women. The 70-year-old Razek, who is part of the casting team that chooses the models for each show, gave some bizarrely out-of-touch answers in the interview, lambasting critics as being “haters” who want too much diversity in the show and describing trans models as “transexuals.” He comes off as a complete joke and absolute asshole and is clearly the reason the company is stuck in 2005. First, he accuses Rihanna of copying Victoria’s Secret using pregnant models, even though Rihanna’s casting of fully pregnant Slick Woods in her lingerie show doesn’t compare at all to VS casting skinny, fit, barely visibly pregnant models. By the way, we’ve had three pregnant models walk the show. Everybody had the conversation about Savage [x Fenty] having the pregnant model in the show. We watch this, we’re amused by it, but we don’t milk it. Then he fully admits that even though VS has considered the whole plus-size thing, it’s not who they market to. I think we address the way the… [Read full story]
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