In the NY Post, Kirsten Fleming reports that connected men seek-out tickets to Victoria’s Secret’s annual Fashion Show in the hopes of meeting models.
On Jezebel, Hillary Crosley writes,
Tickets to the event aren’t for sale, so some dudes resort to such thirst tactics as bribing friends lucky enough to receive a ticket or outright begging, all for a chance to «model-shop» and hopefully seduce an angel to hang out with them. And maybe, just maybe, a Victoria’s Secret executive will do the matchmaking legwork for them.
The Post writes,
When fashion photographer Nigel Barker gets a certain coveted invitation every fall, his phone blows up with randy requests from pals jockeying to scoop up his plus-one.
“Whenever I get invited to a Victoria’s Secret show . . . my male friends all [pop] up out of nowhere wanting to come to the show,” says Barker, the suave snapper who starred alongside former Victoria’s Secret Angel Tyra Banks on “America’s Next Top Model.”
“And they’re very pleased with themselves if they get picked to come.”
In her 2013 memoir “I’m No Angel,” Kylie Bisutti alleges that the company’s bigwigs tried to hook her up with an unnamed boldfacer she met during an afterparty at an unnamed downtown nightclub, even though she was married.
“Apparently one of the celebrities at the afterparty thought I was his type,” writes Bisutti. “And this exec wanted to know if it was okay for him to pass along my phone number so we could ‘get together.’
“I had heard that the owners encouraged the Angels to date celebrities because of the extra publicity it provided . . . but since I was happily married, I assumed they realized I was off the market.”
After the book was published, Victoria’s Secret claimed Bisutti made “numerous fabrications and misstatements.”
