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Victoria’s Secret releases Valentine’s Day promos, including limited-edition range and scent

February 10, 2012/10.32

Above Victoria’s Secret “angels” in a publicity shot for Valentine’s Day 2012. Victoria’s Secret has announced its Gorgeous collection, featuring a limited-edition push-up bra that the company claims adds two cup sizes. The collection is available in lace, prints and classic colours.    The company has also announced a limited-edition fragrance called Bombshell in Love, […]

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Adriana Lima launches Victoria’s Secret’s Showstopper bra in NYC

August 10, 2011/11.25

Jamie McCarthy Victoria’s Secret unveiled Tuesday a new bra collection called the Showstopper. The company says the range is ‘designed to help women show nothing but their shape.    ‘This new range of bras is light, smooth and sexy with padding technology that provides no-show coverage where women need it the most. With super-soft fabrication, […]

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Victoria’s Secret Angels reveal latest What Is Sexy? list

May 13, 2011/10.54

Victoria’s Secret’s Angels—Miranda Kerr, Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Erin Heatherton and Candace Swanepoel—unveiled their What Is Sexy? list in Los Angeles Thursday.    The quintet wore mini-dresses at the Grove shopping centre as they kicked off their Bombshell summer tour, which will see them in various cities across the US and Canada.    They voted […]

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Gisèle Bündchen increases lead in Forbes’s 2011 top-earning models’ list

May 8, 2011/4.49

Steven Meisel Above Lara Stone was the surprise in Forbes’s 2011 list of top-earning models, buoyed by her Calvin Klein campaign, among others. Forbes has released its 2011 list of the world’s top-earning models, with a substantial (30 per cent) rise for the top three: Gisèle Bündchen, Heidi Klum and Kate Moss.    Bündchen leapt […]

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Will Gisèle Bündchen keep her crown as the top-earning model in 2011?

April 1, 2011/8.40

Above Natalia Vodianova, appearing here for Etam lingerie, is expected to remain in the top 10 for annual earnings, based on Vicki Matias’s calculations. Every year, Forbes announces its table of the world’s top-earning models for the year. This year, we thought we’d try to make an educated guess on who might be in first […]

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Adriana Lima models the 2010 Victoria’s Secret Bombshell Fantasy Bra

October 29, 2010/1.16

Victoria’s Secret Earlier this month, we opted not to cover the hoop-la around the latest version of the Victoria’s Secret diamond bra, as worn by Adriana Lima—as there were some busy news days and catch-up work to do after the many fashion weeks around the world.    However, we’ve noticed that there are many search-engine […]

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Forbes announces 2010’s top-earning models: Gisèle leads again

May 14, 2010/3.59

Forbes has announced its table of the world’s top-earning models for 2010, with supermodel Gisèle Bündchen (left, pictured for Hope Lingerie) heading the list at US$25 million, the same figure as last year.    The rankings were little changed from 2009 and the top five placeholders were the same, save for some differences in the […]

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Forbes releases 2009 list of world’s top-earning models and supermodels

May 28, 2009/12.26

Above: Doutzen Kroes remains in fifth place in 2009, with US$6 million earned between June 2008 and June 2009, says Forbes. Forbes this week released its list of the world’s top earning models, estimating their income earned between June 2008 and June 2009.    The magazine notes that the recession has hit earnings. While Gisèle […]

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Adriana Lima dons Victoria’s Secret’s 3,575 black-diamond bra

October 24, 2008/11.03

Jeweller Martin Katz, who specializes in rare gems, has created a $5 million brassière for Victoria’s Secret, called the Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra.    Unveiled earlier this week, and modelled by Adriana Lima, the bra features 3,575 black diamonds, 117 certified 1 ct round diamonds and 34 rubies. There is a total of 3,900 […]

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Forbes lists world’s 16 top earning models and supermodels

May 2, 2008/6.37

Gisèle Bündchen, whose face promotes products from Disney to Nivea and Aquascutum, is the world’s top-earning model, according to Forbes.    The magazine’s latest table of what it calls the top 15—there are actually 16 models—puts Bündchen’s earnings over the last 12 months at US$35 million, more than double that of Heidi Klum, in second place at […]

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