Branding schmanding. What's terrible about Victoria's Secret is the product: those excruciatingly abrasive and pieces of petroleum-based twine that pass through the buttocks and barely cover the genitals
The 7 new ambassadors, the VS collective, are lovely, but 4 of them are models, and one is a TV personality. Two are athletes. Five are under 30; one is a teenager.
The candy-colored polymers go for $20-$80 for a few tablespoons of fabric that's hostile to the skin and the body.
Exposés in Bloomberg and elsewhere show VS uses sweatshops and even slave labor.
Important to note that Dr. James Lindsay (Ph.D., mathematics, 2010) is most known as a hoaxer who considers the language of the humanities gibberish and likes to send it up (as so many have done since the early 90s).
Where Marc Lamont Hill (Ph.D., American Studies, 2005 [I think]) has, along w/his work in journalism, directed a dozen dissertations & has a frankly exhausting CV that includes, among too many books & articles w/illustrious publishers to count, fluent Spanish & solid Arabic.