
Less than a week after Victoria's Secret Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek shared his offensive thoughts on why the brand excludes plus-size and transgender models in VS shows, CEO Jan Singer abruptly resigned. According to Bloomberg, she only spent two years with the company. Here's the tea.
Aside from the quality of the photo and the addition of colors onto the runway, there's very few differences. Every woman on the runway has the same body type: leggy and size 2 or smaller. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if VS just cloned models year after year.
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In fact, the brand's lack of diversity and refusal to evolve has caused some people, like model Robyn Lawley, to call for a boycott of the fashion show.
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Of course, Lawley's issues with Victoria's Secret only reflect a wider dissatisfaction of the brand as a whole. Millennials are not into the brand's narrow perception of beauty and thus, sales and stock prices have been declining over the past few years.
They don’t make bras for women who have real breast
— AvalinaMontezHouston (@AvalinaMontez) November 14, 2018
The fashion show is just a part of it.
Maybe make bras that last and have major support! Let’s be honest VS don’t make bras for women who have big breast! VS fashion show is a joke those models have no boobs! They have Mosquito bites!!
— Rebecca ???? (@RebeccaLorigo) November 14, 2018
The thing is: It's not that the company is just behind the times when it comes to including body diversity on the runway, it just has no intention of changing or evolving as a brand.
Case in point: The brand's 70-year-old Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek told Vogue that the company has already made strides when it comes to diversity, but it doesn't intend to get too diverse because the show is a "fantasy." And obviously nobody wants to see anyone other than a size 2 blond woman in their fantasy, OK?

"It’s like, why doesn’t your show do this? Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special. That’s what it is." he said in the interview.
"If you’re asking if we’ve considered putting a transgender model in the show or looked at putting a plus-size model in the show, we have," he said. But, he added, "We market to who we sell to, and we don’t market to the whole world."
ed razek, who is apart of casting for VS, said they will not use plus models “because the show is a fantasy. it is a 42 minute entertainment special. that is what it is.” i can’t be apart of the fantasy? i beg to differ pic.twitter.com/ZjqCYzJ46J
— Martha May Whovier (@bree_kish) November 11, 2018
So, basically VS only markets to one type of woman. Got it.
A week after he made those comments, the company's CEO, Jan Singer stepped down from her position after just two years in the role.
Victoria’s Secret CEO Jan Singer is stepping down nearly a week after the brand filmed its annual fashion show. https://t.co/Y0jz3wHcrw
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) November 14, 2018
People are speculating about her reasons for stepping down. Some say she's taking the fall for Razek after his controversial comments.
I know the VS business hasn't been doing well even prior to Ed Razek's "transsexual" comments but given the timing this can't help but feel like a woman taking the fall for him. https://t.co/BxAnsQHTAc
— Amy Odell (@amyodell) November 14, 2018
Others think it's due to the declining sales.
Having an opinion however distasteful you may find it is not grounds for leaving, running a successful company into the ground however is.
— Special Punch Rules (@Cian_OG_) November 14, 2018
Some are even accusing her of running the company into the ground. Yikes!
Their products have been on the decline for a long time now. You make a crappy product and overprice it, you’re gonna get burned!
— Jay-Me-10 (@Jamie49256397) November 14, 2018
One thing is for sure, if Victoria's Secret doesn't drop Razek and get with the times, it'll lose its market share to companies that actually do have everyday women's interests in mind (i.e., Aerie, Savage X Fenty, ThirdLove).
Aerie watching victorias secret getting trashed: pic.twitter.com/qyI0SUxaVh
— pigeonPoooooop (@lonelypigeon1) November 13, 2018
*Sips tea.*
Victoria secret really tried to shade savage x fenty but the gag is your brand is decades old and being outshined by Rihanna’s line in its first year... pic.twitter.com/qWZ6q7fApd
— Anansi the Spider ???? (@lanalunaaa) November 8, 2018

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