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Ashley Graham Completes a Third Straight Victoria’s Secret Run in Flower Wings

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October 29, 2026

Ashley Graham walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18, 2026, at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, completing her third consecutive appearance for the brand since her debut in the show’s 2024 revival. She wore a pale lilac lace bodysuit with side cutouts and gold metallic heels, under wide wings covered in pink and yellow flowers — one of the night’s most photographed looks.

Graham was scouted at age 12 in a Nebraska mall and signed with Wilhelmina Models in 2001, later moving to Ford Models and then IMG Models, which represents her today. Her breakthrough came in 2010 with her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue appearance, and in 2016 she became the first curvy model to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue — a cultural milestone that brought the conversation about size acceptance into the mainstream.

From there, her career expanded far beyond the runway. In 2015 she delivered a TEDx talk, declaring “Plus-size? More like my size,” and in 2016 Mattel created a Barbie doll in her likeness, at her insistence that the doll’s thighs touch. In 2017 she published her memoir, A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like, and became the first plus-size model on the cover of American Vogue. She has fronted campaigns for Revlon, H&M and Calvin Klein, walked for Michael Kors, Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger, and in 2025 made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.

When Graham first joined the Victoria’s Secret show in 2024, she wrote that after sitting down with the brand’s leadership, she saw real change — and that the curve models were not just a symbol. Three shows later, her place on the runway reads as settled. The flower wings in 2026 were not a one-time gesture; they were the look of a model who has spent a decade turning a refused seat at the table into a career at the center of it.

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Apple Martin Makes Her Runway Debut for Chloé at Paris Fashion Week

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October 29, 2026

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Apple Martin is officially a runway model. The 22-year-old made her runway debut on October 1 at Paris Fashion Week, walking for Chloé’s spring/summer 2027 show at the historic Paris Observatory. She stepped onto the catwalk in a bohemian white eyelet dress with balloon sleeves, a plunging neckline and a dramatic lace collar, her hands tucked into the pockets of the flowing design, finished with light brown platform shoes.

For Chloé, the casting was a natural next step. Martin is an official face of the house and starred in its summer 2026 campaign earlier this year, so creative director Chemena Kamali’s decision to put her on the runway moved an existing campaign relationship onto fashion’s biggest stage. The collection leaned into the romantic, ethereal codes Kamali has made her signature: lace, lingerie-inspired details and flowing silhouettes, balanced with heavier tailoring.

The debut arrived almost exactly one year after Martin launched her modeling career. She first appeared as the face of Self-Portrait’s resort campaign in October 2025, then fronted the London label’s spring 2026 campaign in January. Campaign work for GapStudio followed, and she has since landed a Vogue spread and a turn in the magazine’s Beauty Secrets series. It is a fast build by any standard, assembled campaign by campaign rather than through runway seasons.

Martin, the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, graduated from Vanderbilt University in May with a degree in law, history and society, and spoke in a February Vogue interview about switching her focus from law to entertainment. Modeling is the first chapter of that plan taking shape in public.

A first runway is a threshold every model has to cross, and doing it in Paris, for a house she already represents, in one of the season’s most watched shows, is about as strong a crossing as the industry offers. Apple Martin came to Paris as a campaign face. She left it as a runway model, with the whole SS27 season as her calling card.