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Adriana Lima Walks Her 21st Victoria’s Secret Show — and Closes It in White
Twenty-seven years after she first stepped onto its runway, Adriana Lima is still the name Victoria’s Secret saves for last. On October 18, the 45-year-old Brazilian supermodel walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026 at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles for the 21st time, extending her record as the longest-running model in the brand’s history. The brand teased her return at the end of September with a simple message: “You asked, we delivered. The icon of all icons.”
She gave the show two signature moments. Lima first appeared in a neon green lace teddy with crisscross straps and a pair of floral wings, then returned to close the entire production in white lace and massive beaded wings, hands clasped and eyes lifted as she took the final walk of the night. Closing a show is fashion’s clearest statement of rank, and there was never much doubt whose spot it was.
The numbers behind the night are unmatched. Lima made her Victoria’s Secret debut at 18 in 1999 and walked every edition of the show from that year through 2018, missing only 2009. She has worn the coveted Fantasy Bra three times — in 2008, 2010 and 2014 — a distinction she shares only with Heidi Klum. She famously walked the runway just weeks after giving birth in 2012, and earlier this year she fronted a Mother’s Day campaign for the brand, keeping the partnership active between shows.
Her return is a comeback with real distance behind it. Lima retired from Victoria’s Secret in 2018, came back when the show relaunched in 2024, and has now walked both editions of the new era. At 45, in a cast mixing first-time Angels with fellow veterans, her 21st walk was not nostalgia booking — it was the headline. Some records get broken. This one keeps walking.
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Barbara Palvin Returns to the Victoria’s Secret Runway Six Weeks After Welcoming Her Daughter
Barbara Palvin delivered one of the defining career moments of the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18, walking the runway at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles just six weeks after giving birth to her first child. The 33-year-old Hungarian model appeared twice during the show, first in a romantic sheer pink negligee decorated with script writing, and again in a shimmering white look with a flowing train and snowflake-like wings.
Palvin and her husband announced their daughter Sylvie’s arrival in late September, which made her casting one of the most talked-about stories of this year’s show. Speaking to PEOPLE backstage, she took the timeline in stride. “I’m going to be six weeks postpartum tomorrow, which I think in the U.S. most people have to go back after six weeks. So it’s not that big of a deal,” she said. “I’m feeling great. I think it’s very empowering that the Victoria’s Secret team is having me at the show and we’re supporting women.”
The appearance added another chapter to one of the longest-running relationships between a model and the brand. Palvin first walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2012 and was officially named a Victoria’s Secret Angel in 2019. She returned for the show’s revival editions in 2024 and 2025, and this year’s walk marked her fifth appearance on that runway. Few models in the 2026 cast could match that span of history with the company.
Her career reaches well beyond one lingerie stage. Palvin made her runway debut for Prada in Milan in 2010 at just 17 years old, went on to walk for houses including Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu, and became a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model in 2016, alongside covers for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and L’Officiel. She is represented by IMG Models worldwide.
Days after the show, Palvin thanked Victoria’s Secret on Instagram for “embracing me exactly where I am in my postpartum journey,” and used the moment to speak up for working mothers who return to their jobs on the same six-to-eight-week timeline without a choice in the matter. It was a runway return that doubled as a statement about women going back to work on their own terms, and it underlined why, more than a decade after her debut, Barbara Palvin remains one of the most durable names in the business.
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