Victoria's Secret CEO Steps Down After CMO's Comments
Ed Razek, the Chief Marketing Officer at Victoria's Secret revealed in an interview with Vogue that he doesn't include trans or plus-size women in the VS Fashion Show because they do not represent the "fantasy" Victoria's Secret wants to portray. Victoria's Secret has been struggling to improve their sales in the past five years by broadening their audience, but these comments seemingly hindered all their efforts. Jan Singer, the CEO stepped down after his comments were made.
The statement from Razek is really problematic because trans and plus-size models should be seen as sexy, just as much as regular models. By eliminating these models from their fashion show, VS is furthering the stereotypes that make it difficult for trans and plus-size models to work in the modeling world.
The statement from Razek is really problematic because trans and plus-size models should be seen as sexy, just as much as regular models. By eliminating these models from their fashion show, VS is furthering the stereotypes that make it difficult for trans and plus-size models to work in the modeling world.
Honestly this is pretty good, cause Razek's statement was pretty ignorant especially referring to trans people as transsexuals. I think also Razek is basing his view of what a fantasy is on his own perspective of the male fantasy where only skinny cisgender white women can really exist. It highlights how much the male gaze is so out of touch with reality and it's definitely killing sales. What I really liked about Aerie and Savage Fenty's campaigns was that it shifted the focus away from what the male gaze's expectation of sexy and instead focused on what makes an individual feel sexy. I do think it's problematic that a female CEO had to resign based off of the mistake a man made while the man is still working at his position.
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