Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Returns to Los Angeles After 19 Years: Veteran Supermodels Lead the Runway as Kylie Jenner Debuts in $50M Fantasy Bra
The 2026 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was held on Sunday evening, October 18, at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, in the Los Angeles area. It was the show's first Los Angeles edition in 19 years, since 2007, a move the brand announced on July 16. The show began at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time, streamed live and free worldwide on the brand's official YouTube channel and screened simultaneously at 10 AMC theaters across the United States.
Executive creative director Adam Selman structured the show into seven segments following the changing seasons. Bella Hadid opened the runway in a floral, vine-inspired winged look, and Adriana Lima closed the finale segment. Veteran Angels headlined the cast: Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio, both 45 — Ambrosio marking her 20th Victoria's Secret show — Doutzen Kroes, 41, and Irina Shayk, 40, alongside Candice Swanepoel, Barbara Palvin, Behati Prinsloo and Jasmine Tookes. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley returned to the show after 16 years away, and Elsa Hosk walked it for the first time since 2018. Chinese supermodels Liu Wen, Ming Xi and He Cong also walked.
The night's biggest surprise was Kylie Jenner, 29, who made her Victoria's Secret runway debut wearing the Fantasy Bra, created with luxury jeweler Jacob & Co. The piece features 4,410 natural diamonds centered on a 75.54-carat fancy vivid yellow diamond, weighs about four pounds, took 15 craftspeople 1,000 hours to build, and is valued at $50 million — the most expensive Fantasy Bra in the brand's history. It was the Fantasy Bra's first runway appearance since Hosk wore it in 2018. Jenner's mother, Kris Jenner, and her boyfriend, actor Timothée Chalamet, watched from the front row. Selman told Vogue that Jenner extends "beyond fashion, beyond culture, beyond TV," and that bringing back the Fantasy Bra was among the most requested features.
The musical lineup was all women: Megan Thee Stallion, Tate McRae, KATSEYE and Megan Moroney performed live across different segments. Among the newcomers, Solange Omon, winner of the brand's nationwide casting docuseries Angels Among Us, made her debut; the PINK segment also featured first-time appearances by U.S. women's national soccer team forward Trinity Rodman and Natalia Bryant, daughter of the late basketball great Kobe Bryant. Gisele Bündchen appeared in the opening video montage but did not walk.
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show began in 1995, was canceled in 2019, returned in New York in 2024 and was held there for two years before moving to Los Angeles this year. (GSM, compiled from People, USA Today, Reuters and other reports)
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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