American retailer of women’s wear, women beach wear and beauty products Victoria’s Secret is the largest part of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales over US$5 billion estimated in 2006 and is well recognized for its annual fashion show the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show that include its featured brand fashion models both for fashion show and catalogs.
Fashion label Victoria’s Secret was started in 1977 by Tufts University and Stanford Graduate School of Business graduate Roy Raymond in San Francisco, California.
Fashion brand Victoria’s Secret inaugurated its first stores in 2010 outside the USA in two Canadian cities: Edmonton and Toronto. Edmonton has only two locations for Victoria’s Secret products whereas seven locations in Toronto. The brand has also hit outside North America with its stores in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Future plans of Victoria’s Secret fashion brand include its opening in United Kingdom with a 16,500 square-foot flagship store on Bond Street, London in 2012.
Victoria’s Secret fashion label annually holds Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show with a vivid group of charismatic fashion models that are termed “Victoria’s Secret Angels” or the "Runway Angels" started as Victoria’s Secret’s lingerie line. Some of notable spokesmodels of Victoria’s Secret fashion label include fashion models Eva Herzigova, Oluchi Onweagba, Ana Hickmann, Claudia Schiffer, Emanuela de Paula, Jessica Stam and Katsia Zingarevich. Fashion label Victoria’s Secret Angels have earned an eternal fame due to their participation in fashion shows and advertisement campaigns apart of that Victoria’s Secret Angels have been selected to be part of annual "100 Most Beautiful People in the World" issue in 2007.
Recent launch of Victoria’s Secret Angels Swimwear Collection 2011 contains fascinating designs for girls modeled by Victoria’s Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel and Alessandra Ambrosio most adorable and favorite all time.