Weights 142 carats, including 60 carats of white diamonds, 82 carats of topazes and sapphires all set in white gold worth at $2 million dollars designed by Damiani
Spoiler Alert: These Gaga-inspired bubble wings are for the finale and will be blowing real bubbles on the runway.
Concepts for the show take place as early as February each year. Juliette Meurisse, a French crafts person who formerly worked with Sonia Rykiel, connects with the show's stylist, Charlotte Stockdale, to start the design process. This year Meurisse, whose specialty is feathers, is designing 4 sets of wings to be featured throughout the show's five themes: "Tough Love," "Wild Things," "Heavenly Bodies," "Game On," "Pink," and "Country Girls." Ellingson will wear this look for the later, hence the use of straw, hay, and corn. Meurisse (pictured with Ellingson) also designed the matching corset.
This year the wings are so massive they have needed a room of their own at Victoria's Secret's headquarters in NYC. Where do the works of art go after the show? They are archived at a warehouse in Ohio and only sent out for special events and photo shoots.
Meurisse said these wings alone took an entire month to create and are still a work in progress. "It's not finished," she said. "I have to make a new design, because it was too heavy. They didn’t move the way we wanted when she walked."
Inspiration board for Country Girls. "This is the softer section of the show," said Thomas. "It’s sweet and feminine. You’ll see the set design is this sunlit farm with shots of light, particles of hay and pollen floating through the air, and sunshine. It's super romantic.
"We really went all the way this year with the wings —with scale, with concept, and with the amount of them. Whenever you think we can't possibly do more, that's when we do," said the show's costume designer Todd Thomas who, fittingly, kept adding more eyelet trim when putting the finishing touches on Ellingson's look.
Meurisse said she hand dyes all the feathers. This ombre set of wings looks like it was inspired by the movement and explosion of colors in fireworks.
For this haute show, every detail counts and the accessories this year are incredibly intricate. Don't be fooled, every bead, crystal, and sequin is handsewn— I saw the designers hard at work!
Wearing a pair of 5-feet-wide wings of wheat, straw, and corn—not to mention teetering Giuseppe Zanotti platform boots—would make for a tricky strut, but not for veteran supermodel, Lindsay Ellingson, who said she's attempted much more defying acts on the catwalk. "I closed Viktor & Rolf's show once wearing a steel rig with tungsten lights and speakers. I seriously thought I was going to fall over, so this is easy!" she laughed.
Ellingson is in good company with Karolina Kurkova, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Anja Rubik, Jessica Stam, Isabeli Fontana, and Abbey Lee all confirmed for the show. Check out a Polaroid of Lima trying on Meurisse's stunning ombre feather wings, her personal favorite.
Selita first got a 3 year contract as an angel (2006-2008) and they didn't renew it, but she still walks the shows. The same with Izabel Goulart.
Karolina was with Victoria's Secret since 2000 and they pushed her like crazy, even letting her open in 2001 and the Fantasy Bra in 2002 but she did not have the official "Angel" status until 2005. She had the 3 year contract till 2007, then in 2008 she had a bad experience with the tabloids when people were calling her fat because of that show in Brazil and at the VSFS 2008 she was supposed to have 3 outfits/walks but only has 2 since one of them ripped so she couldn't do her last walk, and they showed all that on TV when her outfit ripped, and trying to fix it, she looked really embarrassed.
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She had her baby on October 29th, 2009 so she didn't walk the 2009 show, but she's walking again as a normal model this year. (Quite pathetic though that she had to go to the castings with all the newbies even though she was an Angel and her picture was all blown up at the casting meetings.
Adriana Lima will slay again.
Im even more excited because she missed the show last year.
And actually the Remaining Cast is the real top model of the world, theyre everywhere in major fashion show, do a lot of high fashion stuff.
And the Supermodel you listed is the new angel. I just like Candice, Behati and Rosie, the rest dont deserve their angel status.
I missed Miranda and Doutzen, they miss the show this year because of prenancy.
wait. abbey lee? has she walked for VS before? because i dont really think she's a VS kind of model. i think its best for her to just stick being a chanel girl with freja
wait. abbey lee? has she walked for VS before? because i dont really think she's a VS kind of model. i think its best for her to just stick being a chanel girl with freja
She walked the 2008 and 2009 shows.
These girls shouldn't even be near anything Victorias Secret related, they look like pre-pubescent girls, not women.
Chanel Iman
Erin Heatherton
Behati Prinsloo
Jessica Stam
Anja Rubik
Abbey Lee Kershaw
Liu Wen
If they're going to get slimmer women ok fine but at least have them be established like Coco Rohca, Daria Werbowy, Natalia Vodianova, Carmen Kass, Angela Lindvall, Michelle Alves, and Erin Wasson.
I would much rather see girls like Bar Rafaeli, Hilary Rohda, Marissa Miller, Carolyn Murphy, model lingerie, stereotypical but effective.
Some good choices they have made this year with the casting.
Obviously Alessandra and Adriana. Candice and Rosie as well. Those two need to become angels NOW. Candice is the epitome of VS and Rosie is about to blow up. Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart, Selita Ebanks, Maryna Linchuk, Isabeli Fontana, Magdalena Frackowiak, Lily Donaldson are great choices. Maryna, Magda and Lily are pretty thin (especially Magda) but they can reach the commercial public pretty easily. Add in the other girls I named and were are golden. It wouldn't hurt to have older models like Cindy Crawford and so on do the show either. Pay them what they want, they're worth it.