Best Butts From Victoria Secret Fashion Show

If whatsoever mode result has higher security than the Victoria's Secret show, backstage area, and after-party, we haven't seen it. Getting access involves government I.D., a security pass, a guest list, a ticket, and a wristband. Then, y'all're searched; afterward, you put your purse on the floor and so that the sniffer-dogs can investigate information technology. Getting within a few meters of the Angels in London yesterday was harder than budgeted the queen for a selfie.

When the press was finally shown into the backstage area yesterday morning time to run into the girls during hair and makeup, it was like walking into a scaled-up Barbie Dreamhouse. So much pinkish; so much glossy, beach-waved hair; and so many immaculate smiles.

Makeup creative person Dick Page developed a custom lip color by blending Shiseido colors, a couple of beige cream eye shadows, and "a lot of 8-Hr Cream," all practical over a Victoria's Underground pink lip stain. "It's simply something to tone the pink down and create a healthy, rosy-looking lip," he explained. As for eyes, every bit usual, it was about blending taupe and a black-brown cream shadow to avoid whatsoever hard lines. "It's all buffed and diffused, you lot know — sort of like an animation."

Before the prove (which was the 2d i — the girls walk once at 4 p.m. and again at 8 p.m., to get two versions for TV edit, which airs on Dec 9th on CBS), executive producer Ed Razek came onstage with a bulletin for the British audience, most of whom had never seen a Victoria'south Secret show before. "Information technology'southward perfectly advisable, even though you lot're in black tie, to get off your rich English butts and have fun!" he instructed us. Here are two important facts about the English: (ane) nosotros don't all accept rich butts; (two) getting us to whoop and dance along with lingerie-clad supermodels is always going to be an uphill boxing.

Anyhow, and with that, the show was off. Divided into six parts, it began with Gilded Angels, an all-gold, all-glittering, all-shiny collection that featured what looked like tinsel epaulettes on Behati Prinsloo (festive), a lot of beaded bras, and some fierce cagelike gold knee boots courtesy of Nicholas Kirkwood. (Later on, in that location were shoes designed by Sophia Webster — a squeamish nod to British design.)

Next came the Exotic Traveler drove. While Ed Sheeran serenaded them with "Thinking Out Loud," Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio walked out in this twelvemonth's two Fantasy Bras, designed by the jeweler Mouawad. The bras used 16,000 rubies, diamonds, and sapphires, strung together belly-dancer-fashion with bondage of eighteen-karat gold. It was all very "exotic."

The rest of the collection avoided any specific cultural influences by just borrowing from everyone — because the Victoria'southward Cloak-and-dagger traveler is an equal-opportunities traveler. At that place were embroidered bolero jackets; at that place were stacks of wooden bangles; at that place were pompoms; there was Kate Grigorieva in an extravagantly feathered jacket (over red lace panties, of grade). There were, as you'd wait, tanned butt cheeks and acres of thigh muscle wherever y'all looked.

Next came Dream Girl, for which Taylor Swift performed "Blank Space" in a pink silk gown trimmed with black lace. Forget what Jessica Hart famously said last year — Swift fits like a glove with the Victoria's Hush-hush girls. She's as tall and slim every bit whatsoever of them and of all the evening's performers, she looked the well-nigh comfy with the models. In fact, the presence of Swift seemed to brand information technology obligatory for the models to ramp up the pointing, the winking, and the girl-power high fives.

The Dream Girl collection was all about furry stilettos, chiffon robes, and, in Lily Aldridge'south case, a teddy cutting and then loftier in the crotch that it looked like the evidence was i misstep away from an NC-17 rating. Then onto the University of Pink, the star of which was Ariana Grande, performing "Blindside Blindside" with a troupe of the globe'southward nearly energetic dancers — leaping, clapping, and fist-pumping like in that location was no tomorrow.

Your university uniform for the coming year? Just expect extreme crops on everything. If your hoodie fully covers your ribs, and you lot're wearing it with annihilation more than a "Very Sexy Panty" on your lower half, you're not doing higher education right.

For the Fairytale drove, the models stepped out from sparkly white trees and a giant storybook, doing their all-time to walk with their trademark upbeat sexiness to Hozier's funeral-paced "Accept Me to Church." The celebrity highlight of this section was Mel B, in the forepart row, standing up to give Jourdan Dunn a standing ovation. (Emma Stone would have died.)

And then a quick break for three male dancers to entertain the crowd earlier Taylor re-emerged in a black lace dress to perform "Style" for the Angel Ball finale. She walked the runway with all-time-buddy Karlie Kloss (wearing a lace and crystal bodysuit with ample sideboob) before doing a lot more pointing and performative flirting with Joan Smalls. If the previous five rounds of sparkly underwear hadn't been raunchy enough for y'all, Angel Ball was at that place to terminate y'all off with the kind of lingerie worn by sex symbols in the '80s — we're talking blackness lace bustiers, stockings, and garter belts.

Finally, a cascade of silvery and black balloons from the ceiling signaled the finish of the show. Every bit we filtered out of the space into the subsequently-political party, "Blurred Lines" was playing, perhaps in reference to the blurred line between briefs and thongs that Victoria's Secret had walked so skillfully —we'll just call information technology the "deliberate wedgie." At the party, guests emptied the free bar and tucked into deep-fried potato assurance and mini-burgers. Alas, this is exactly why the Angels' toned glutes are upwardly on the stage, and our large, "rich" butts belong in the audition.

The Victoria'due south Hush-hush show aired last night on CBS. Revisit the looks in the Cutting's coverage from last week.