Some of the Angels from the 2010 fashion show.
Millions of viewers around the world were glued to their televisions last night for the airing of The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2010, which took place in Manhattan at the New York State Armory.
Some of the most gorgeous women in the globe – including Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Chanel Iman, Rosie Huntington and Candice Swanepoel – strutted their stuff down the glitter-covered runway in front of more viewers than the NFL Superbowl receives.
In addition, superstar Katy Perry performed many of her hits, including “Teenage Dream,” “California Girls” and her newest hit “Firework.” Akon also performed his new song, appropriately titled “Angels.” While he was performing, the Victoria Secret Angels glided down the runway.
Overall, the show was upbeat and exciting. It was divided into segments, including Wild Thing, in which the supermodels sported jungle inspired clothing, and dream world, in which the models wore funky clothes and accessories such as knee-high rainbow socks, while Katy Perry crooned “Teenage Dream” in the background. It was also refreshing to see that the models had a lot of fun on the runway. They waved to the audience, smiled and winked, which was a nice change from the usual grim-faced models displayed in fashion shows.
The show offered more than just showing the catwalk. It provided backstage footage and short interviews with the models. However, I felt that the models’ responses were very contrived and scripted. They all attempted to give the viewer the impression that the Angels are one, big happy family who spend all their time together and genuinely love each other. It even went as far as having the models describe each other in terms such as ‘smokin’ hot’ and ‘the sexy bomb.’
While Victoria’s Secret is all about fantasy, this fantasy is just a little too ridiculous. There is no way that these models all get along as well as they’d like you to believe. Do you really expect us to believe that no drama was caused between the girls over the fact that Adriana Lima got to wear the most expensive bra of the evening – the Bombshell Fantasy Bra – estimated to be worth $2 million? The company was clearly just trying to create an allusion to sell clothes.
But overall, the show was very entertaining, and it attracted both male and female viewers, which is a hard feat to accomplish.
Missed the show? Catch it here.
