When the lights finally dimmed at the 2025 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show last night, the first thing guests saw was a gold light emanating from backstage. Model Jasmine Tookes, 9 months pregnant, opened the show in a gold macrame dress with drop pearls and a pearl and crystal wing in the shape of a clam shell. Art buffs might notice that the shell is a callback to Sandro Boticelli's renaissance painting "Birth of Venus," symbolizing sensuality, divine beauty, rebirth, and new beginnings. The cultural reference is a more elevated and considered nod to womanhood than the show's previous themes which have included "Santa's Helpers" or "delicious sweets."
