Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/victoria-s-secret-fashion-show

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How big is Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?Lack of diversity, objectification, cultural appropriation
2. What is the event sponsorship?Victoria's Secret
3. What is the key participants?Models contracted as Victoria's Secret Angels
4. When did the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show start?It began in 1995 as a big marketing event.
5. Why did the show stop in 2019?It ended because people said it didn't show many kinds of bodies and had other problems, so the company decided to change.

Victoria's Secret Angels: A select group of models who were the primary faces and representatives of the Victoria's Secret brand.
Prime Time Broadcast: Television programming scheduled during the evening hours when viewership is typically highest.
Cultural Appropriation: The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc., of one people or society by members of another and typically dominant people or society.
Me Too Movement: A social movement against sexual abuse and sexual harassment, which gained prominence in 2017.