All The Black Models Who've Walked A Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
All The Black Models Who’ve Walked In A Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Since 1995
Tonight the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will air on CBS (10 p.m. ET). It’s the first year that the show has been done in Paris and it was quite the grand production. But the legendary fashion show has come a long way since it started in 1995 with models simply wearing the lingerie down a runway. There were no wings, there wasn’t all the glitz, no music performances, and there weren’t many women of color stomping down the catwalk.
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But this year’s show had quite a few Black women turning heads, and it is sure to be quite the sight to see this evening. In honor of those beauties, we wanted to showcase all of the Black women who’ve been in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show over the years. With the exception of maybe one or two missing (shout out to Chrystéle Saint Louis Augustin for instance, there was no photo of her in the 1998 show), we’ve got just about all of the women covered. Check these legendary ladies out:
Naomi Campbell
Campbell walked in seven shows: 1996–1998, 2000, 2002–2003 and 2005.
Tyra Banks
Banks walked in nine shows from 1996 to 2005.
Joan Smalls
Smalls has walked six times since 2011, including in this year’s show.
Maria Borges
The beauty, who made headlines last year by forgoing a long weave for her TWA, has been in four shows since 2013, including this year’s presentation.
Zuri Tibby
This year’s show is Tibby’s first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi
The Nigerian stunner walked for the brand six times. She did shows in 2000, 2002–2003, and 2005 through 2007.
Jourdan Dunn
The British model and cook walked in three shows from 2012 to 2014.
Cindy Bruna
Including this year’s show, Bruna, who is French, has walked in four shows since 2013.
Leomie Anderson
The British model walked in last year’s show, as well is this year’s big bash in Paris.
Dilone
The beauty walked in her very first show this year.
Imaan Hammam
The Dutch model walked only once — in 2014.
Gracie Carvalho
The Brazilian model has walked twice, both in 2010 and 2015.
Leila Nda
The Belgium-bred model walked once in 2015.
Chanel Iman
The leggy beauty walked three times from 2009 to 2011.
