{"id":20352,"date":"2026-02-10T02:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:21:06","slug":"victorias-secret-ceo-says-gen-z-didnt-grow-up-with-2000s-body-image-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20352","title":{"rendered":"Victoria’s Secret CEO says Gen Z didn’t grow up with 2000s body image baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria\u2019s Secret is betting that the generation raised on body positivity\u2014not \u201cheroin chic\u201d\u2014is ready to reclaim its famously glittering runway.<\/p>\n

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Younger shoppers seem unabashed in their love of the spectacle and sparkle, the glamour of the lingerie, notes CEO Hillary Super. Formerly CEO of Anthropologie and competitor Savage X Fenty, she joined the company in the fall of 2024 after several ill-fated attempts to change the narrative surrounding the once hot brand. And though Victoria\u2019s Secret had previously ditched its runway show, Super has re-energized it. <\/p>\n

The Gen Z customer watching the new version of the show today didn\u2019t grow up with the body image trauma of the 2000s like millennials did. She was raised by a Gen X mom who tried not to pass on her own body issues, who wanted her daughter to be \u201cstrong and unbothered by all that noise,\u201d Super notes. Gen Z can appreciate the fun of the Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels without necessarily seeing them as aspirational\u2014or triggering.<\/p>\n

That shift in attitude is central to Victoria\u2019s Secret\u2019s comeback strategy under Super, who calls the company \u201cthe biggest transformation opportunity in retail.\u201d In October 2025, she watched a year of work culminate in the brand\u2019s revived fashion show at Brooklyn\u2019s Steiner Studios. \u201cLights, Camera, Angels,\u201d flashed on the screen before the room went dark. The show opened with model Jasmine Tookes, ethereal in gold wings and cradling her nine-months pregnant belly\u2014a body that would never have appeared on the runway in the brand\u2019s earlier era.<\/p>\n

The crowd loved longtime Angels like Adriana Lima, now in her mid-forties and a mother of five; next-gen supers Bella and Gigi Hadid; curve models including Ashley Graham and Precious Lee; and athletes like WNBA star Angel Reese and Olympic gymnast Suni Lee. <\/p>\n

For Super, the renewed wings, sequins, and towering heels aren\u2019t a retreat from progress but a recalibration. \u201cI don\u2019t think, as women, we ever stopped wanting to feel beautiful or sexy or powerful in our own skin,\u201d she says. \u201cBut we want to define that. We don\u2019t want someone else defining that for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on how Super is turning around this iconic brand, read the full story here. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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