the messy rise and fall of Victoria's Secret

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SOURCES
Decoding Victoria's Secret: The Marketing of [redacted] Beauty and Ambivalence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23415007
A [redacted] Femininity? Telling and Selling Victoria's (Dirty) Secrets: https://www.jstor.org/stable/466785
Chapter 11: The Secret of My Desire: Gender, Class, and [redacted] in Lingerie Catalogs: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42975211 
Unattainable Standards of Beauty: Temporal Trends of Victoria’s Secret Models from 1995 to 2018:
https://thecrimsonwhite.com/82028/culture/victorias-secret-is-hanging-up-its-infamous-wings/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/06/17/yes-prisoners-used-to-sew-lingerie-for-victorias-secret-just-like-in-orange-is-the-new-black-season-3/
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BRANDS
AmaElla
Anekdot
Araks
Aurore Lingerie
Between The Sheets
Botannica Workshop
ColieCo
Cosabella
Eco Intimates
Fruity Booty
Maylyn & Co.
Savara Intimates
Underprotection
Uye Surana

0:00 - introduction
1:42 - the rise of VS
15:41 - the scandals
26:41 - the fall of VS

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