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Liu Wen Marks a Decade of Victoria’s Secret Runways at the 2026 Fashion Show

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October 29, 2026

Liu Wen returned to the Victoria’s Secret runway on October 18, 2026, walking the brand’s fashion show at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, for her tenth time. Seventeen years after her debut, the Chinese supermodel walked in two looks, including an Autumn Changes segment appearance captured in the show’s official runway photography, a reminder of how long she has held her place on one of fashion’s most watched stages.

Her history with the show began in 2009, when she became the first model of Asian descent to walk the Victoria’s Secret runway. At 21, she told interviewers afterward that she had asked her agent if the booking was a joke, because she had not expected an Asian model to get the job. The moment made her, in the words of The New York Times in 2012, “China’s first bona fide supermodel,” and it opened a career built on a run of firsts.

In 2010, she became the first Asian global spokesmodel for Estée Lauder. She went on to become the first Asian model to make Forbes magazine’s annual highest-paid models list, and in 2017 she became the first Chinese model featured on the front cover of American Vogue, in its March issue. She has since appeared on the American Vogue cover again, including in April 2020 and May 2023, and in 2024 became the first model of Asian descent featured solo on the cover of French Vogue.

Her runway record runs just as deep. During one season early in her international career she reportedly walked 74 shows across New York, London, Milan and Paris, and she has worked for houses including Chanel, Hermès, Miu Miu, Prada and Givenchy. After a three-year break from the runway, she returned in 2023 to close Prada’s fall/winter show, and she covered W China’s 2026 Model Issue. Represented in New York by The Society Management, Liu Wen’s tenth Victoria’s Secret appearance is less a comeback than a continuation — proof that a barrier broken in 2009 has become a career measured in decades.

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Nanabah Grace Makes History With Her Victoria’s Secret Runway Debut

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October 29, 2026

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Nanabah Grace made fashion history on October 18, walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first time at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles and becoming, as local and national coverage reported, the first Navajo model to walk the brand’s runway. The Diné–Bilagáana model was one of more than a dozen newcomers in a cast headlined by returning veterans, and her debut was her biggest runway moment yet, in the city she now calls home.

After the show, Grace reflected on the moment on Instagram, opening her message with “Ahéhee,” a Diné expression of thanks, and speaking about what it meant to represent her people on one of fashion’s most recognizable stages. She was not the first Native model to work with the brand: Nez Percé model Celilo Miles appeared in Victoria’s Secret’s 2022 Love Campaign, and Hän Gwich’in model Quannah Chasinghorse wore archival wings in its 2023 campaign and The Tour ’23 special. Grace’s walk carried that line of representation onto the main runway itself.

The debut was years in the making. Originally from southwestern Colorado, Grace signed with IMG Models in 2021 and made her runway debut for Jacquemus’s spring/summer 2022 show in Hawaii in March 2022. Her résumé since includes campaign work for Ralph Lauren and Maybelline, and runway appearances for Ed Hardy and Grace Ling in Los Angeles and for Indigenous designer K. Lookinghorse at New York Fashion Week. Models.com lists her with IMG in New York, London, Los Angeles and Sydney.

Her career runs on a second track as well. Grace played Kuttaambo’i, a Shoshone warrior, across five episodes of Netflix’s 2025 limited series American Primeval, an acting debut she landed while completing a behavioral health science degree at Grand Canyon University, where she graduated in December 2022.

For a model still early in her runway career, a Victoria’s Secret debut is the kind of booking that changes a trajectory. For Grace, it also carried a community with it, and her walk gave Indigenous representation a place on fashion’s loudest stage. It will not be the last time her name leads a story like this one.