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American lingerie and cosmetics retailer

This article is about the American retailer. For other uses, see Victoria's Secret (disambiguation).

Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing and beauty retailer.

Founded in by a Stanford graduate student and his wife, Roy and Gaye Raymond,^[5][6] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in ^[7] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, expanding the company into stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early s, when Victoria's Secret became the largest lingerie retailer in the United States.^[8]

From through , the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was a major part of the brand's image, featuring an annual runway spectacle of models promoted by the company as fantasy Angels.^[8] The s saw the company's further expansion throughout shopping malls, along with the introduction of the 'miracle bra', the new brand Body by Victori