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Because Victoria’s Secret

Posted by Robin on 7 November 2013 21 Comments

Model Behati Prinsloo walks the streets of Paris in her (jewel-encrusted!) skivvies for Victoria by Victoria's Secret. If you missed her last commercial for the same fragrance, it's here.

Update: the video is no longer available, sorry!

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: victorias secret

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  1. engelwurz says:
    7 November 2013 at 11:26 am

    When I was at the Copenhagen Airport, I was sitting across from a VS store and I watched a short video on repeat for an hour. I’ve thought VS is tacky for years but the more I watched this video, the more bizarre it got. Is VS the lingerie equivalent of Eurovision and everyone is on the joke except me, or do people really think VS is a tasteful but sexy establishment?

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    • Robin says:
      7 November 2013 at 11:35 am

      “The lingerie equivalent of Eurovision” cracked me up :-)

      No, I don’t think most people think they’re tasteful these days. BUT, they’re still in business, and not clear to me how well they’d be doing if they’d stayed on their original, more tasteful path. Not saying they wouldn’t be doing well, I really don’t know.

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      • engelwurz says:
        7 November 2013 at 11:53 am

        Most of the sexiness they do these days is a really infantilized version of sexy. Like when people sing “Santa Baby” with a baby voice (even though Eartha Kitt didn’t even sing it that way). Almost all of them blow a kiss at the end, which is what the little girls on Toddlers & Tiaras do. There’s a lot of discussion about the girls on the show being made to be too adult-like, but I think in this case it’s the opposite. The models are doing little girl things. I don’t care that their image has changed (I love AP which is often untasteful but it’s self-aware trashiness), but their new branding is creepy!!!!!!!

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    • Dilana says:
      8 November 2013 at 9:05 am

      Actually, as as I watched the ad, my nightmare was that the model was prancing around the streets of Paris with no shoes. Ugh.

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    • Dilana says:
      8 November 2013 at 9:08 am

      They are an enormously popular retailer. There are in pretty much every American mall, always crowded and American teenagers and young woman love their lingere.
      *Hetorosexual American teen age boys and young men pretty much regard “Victoria Secret Model” as the ultimate sex icons.

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      • Robin says:
        8 November 2013 at 9:17 am

        Oh, I can vouch for the latter — I have a teenaged son.

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  2. Fernando says:
    7 November 2013 at 11:47 am

    To their credit, they actually have nice looking lingerie in larger sizes.

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    • Robin says:
      7 November 2013 at 12:35 pm

      Glad to hear it, and surprised.

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      • poodle says:
        7 November 2013 at 4:55 pm

        They never seem to have anything for those of us whose cups don’t exactly runneth over.

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        • kindcrow says:
          7 November 2013 at 6:38 pm

          Yup — not much for my mosquito bites. And are the larger sizes actually in the stores, or are they only on-line?

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        • kindcrow says:
          7 November 2013 at 6:49 pm

          And back when I was thin, nothing in their brick and mortar stores were large enough for my lower half. It’s just as well — their undergarments aren’t my style. I was just there to buy their vanilla-scented stuff anyway :-)

          I love Bob Dylan’s music and I was horrified to see him in a VS commercial. It was surreal to say the least.

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          • Robin says:
            7 November 2013 at 7:22 pm

            What?!? I either never saw it, or was so upset I forgot it immediately.

          • kindcrow says:
            7 November 2013 at 9:20 pm

            Yes, here is Bob’s VS commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFrFQ-F64Y.

          • Robin says:
            7 November 2013 at 9:33 pm

            Wow. I’m so upset I am going to try to forget that, possibly again.

            Not very effective ad, anyway — for VS or BD, I should think.

          • kindcrow says:
            7 November 2013 at 9:43 pm

            After that, one needs a unicorn chaser: https://nstperfume.com/2011/02/07/unicorn-chaser/. :-)

          • Robin says:
            7 November 2013 at 9:48 pm

            The sweet waters of friendship and trust! Awesome, thank you.

          • Marjorie Rose says:
            7 November 2013 at 10:12 pm

            Something about that ad reminds me of David Bowie in Labyrinth–but less sexy. Old dude coveting too young a lady, at the very least. . .

          • nozknoz says:
            8 November 2013 at 1:09 am

            ROTFLMAO!

            Also, I have a colleague who worships Bob, and I’m going to spring this on him. I know, that sounds cruel, but this guy has a life-size cardboard cut-out Bob Dylan in his office. I’m trying to discuss serious matters with said colleague and there’s young Bob looking hip and sexy right in front of me.

  3. nozknoz says:
    8 November 2013 at 1:16 am

    Aaaagh – this is like one of those dreams in which you realize you left the house without your dress or something. Or those old ads, “I dreamed I went to the opera in my Maidenform bra.”

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    • Robin says:
      8 November 2013 at 6:57 am

      Ha! So true.

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  4. GateGirl says:
    10 November 2013 at 7:51 pm

    At our local shopping mall, the Victoria’s Secret recently reopened after renovations, and it reminded me of one giant, wall-to-wall catwalk, complete with repeated-over-and-over-again video on a huge screen in the back. I wandered thru, trying to muster up excitement for their wares, and, failing that, I commented offhandedly to one of the SAs that I missed the old, boudoir-like, sophisticated VA stores from yesteryear. The girl looked at me as if I was speaking Ancient Egyptian. Funny how (some of) these SAs do not know much about the history of the company they work for. They’d be surprised if they learned a little about it.

    But I still enjoy the parfums intimates that I bought there a while ago!

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