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Paloma Elsesser Walks Her Third Straight Victoria’s Secret Show in Pink and White

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October 29, 2026

Paloma Elsesser walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on October 18, 2026, at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, marking her third consecutive appearance for the brand since her debut in the show’s 2024 revival. She walked twice: first in the Spring Awakening segment, in a pink silk-and-lace corset layered over a coordinating lace balconette bra with romantic floral waterfall wings, and later in a sheer white bodysuit over another lace set, finished with a silver chain belt decorated with dangling “Angel” charms and a crystal crown.

Elsesser’s path into fashion was unconventional. Born in London and raised in Los Angeles, she was studying psychology and literature at The New School in New York when makeup artist Pat McGrath discovered her on Instagram and cast her for the launch of her beauty line. From there she built a career with campaigns for Fenty Beauty, Nike, Glossier, Proenza Schouler and Mercedes-Benz, and editorials in American Vogue, British Vogue, Elle, W and Wonderland.

Her covers tell the same story of steady ascent: she appeared on the cover of British Vogue’s April 2018 issue alongside a group of rising models, and on the cover of American Vogue’s January 2021 issue. In 2019 she made her screen acting debut in the Safdie brothers’ film Uncut Gems. In 2023, the Fashion Awards named her Model of the Year, making her the first plus-size model to receive the honor.

Represented by IMG Models, Elsesser has become one of fashion’s most visible voices for body inclusivity, writing and speaking about representation as well as modeling it. Her 2026 Victoria’s Secret appearance, in soft pink and then in white, carried that same message the runway has carried since her debut: glamour is not a size, and the stage is bigger when more women get to stand on it.

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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.