2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Reveals First Models Walking the Runway

The first few models that will strut down the catwalk during the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show have been revealed — and the list contains several fan favorites and familiar faces!

The lingerie brand revealed the first six models that will appear in the show in a Tuesday, Sept. 2 Instagram Reel. The caption read, “The first six angels hitting the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025 runway are…”

The video featured the brand’s signature black text that read “the secret is out,” before zooming out to Adriana Lima, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge and Yumi Nu all wearing black lingerie and fluffy white angel wings.

Fans in the comments section of the post shared their hopes for which models they’d like to see on the catwalk, as well as what they expected from the runway show this year.

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“PLEASE bring back the old VS runaways with tons of glitter, bouncy hair and flawless makeup!!! We all really miss them,” one fan wrote. Another user added that they hoped to see the return of the brand’s “bombshell glitter aesthetic.”

Yai and Consani return after making their Angel debut at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Consani’s casting made history, as she was the first-ever trans model to walk the runway for Victoria’s Secret.

Though Aldridge did not participate in the 2024 show — which took place last year on Oct. 15 at Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York — she walked in each iteration of the program between 2009 and 2017.

Lima made her debut at the Victoria’s Secret show in 1999 and walked in a total of 18 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows before retiring in 2018 — the veteran Angel dusted off her wings and returned for the 2024 show.

Though not a veteran, Smalls appeared in every Victoria’s Secret Fashion show from 2011 to 2016; she also returned for the 2024 program.

The 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show marks Nu’s first time walking down the runway for the brand, though she was seen attending a casting for the 2024 show. She previously appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in 2022.

The 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show marks the second year that the show will air after its cancellation in November 2019.

“We’re figuring out how to advance the positioning of the brand and best communicate that to customers and that’s among the things that [Victoria’s Secret chief executive officer] John [Mehas] is focused on,” Stuart B. Burgdoerfer, chief financial officer and executive vice president of L Brands, said in an update call with analysts.

The fashion show’s 2019 cancellation arrived after Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek revealed in a 2018 Vogue interview that Victoria’s Secret had no plans to hire trans or curvy models for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

“Shouldn’t you have transsexuals in the show? No. No, I don’t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It’s a 42-minute entertainment special,” he told the outlet.

Razek later offered an apology for his remarks and noted that his comments were insensitive, though he ended up resigning from the company in August of 2019.

“My remark regarding the inclusion of transgender models in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show came across as insensitive. I apologize,” he said. “To be clear, we absolutely would cast a transgender model for the show. We’ve had transgender models come to casting… And like many others, they didn’t make it…But it was never about gender. I admire and respect their journey to embrace who they really are.”