Vote For the Best Victoria’s Secret Angel
Photo: Getty Images1/12Stephanie Seymour
Runway shows: 1995-2000
Angel contract: 1997-2000
In the beginning, there was Stephanie Seymour, aka the first and most recognizable of the brand’s ’90s faces. If you received a Victoria’s Secret catalog in the mid-’90s, you were treated to Seymour in all her pouty, angular glory staring right back at you. Capable of making the decade’s high-waisted bikinis and push-up bras seem elegant as well as sensual, Seymour brought supermodel grace to the brand’s first televised shows.
Photo: Getty Images2/12Tyra Banks
Runway shows: 1996-2005
Angel contract: 1997-2005
For nearly a decade, Tyra Banks provided Victoria’s Secret with its heart and soul. Blessed with famously pneumatic proportions and a vivacious personality that would later transform her into a multimedia celebrity, Banks gave the show some of its most memorable segments, from providing an improvised flamenco on the runway in 2002 to wielding a scepter during her final show in 2005.
Photo: Getty Images3/12Heidi Klum
Runway shows: 1997-2009
Angel contract: 1999-2010
Heidi Klum’s appeal has always been straightforward: Buxom, blonde, and irrepressibly bubbly, Klum’s obvious charms have helped her become a household name beyond modeling. She often hosted the show in addition to walking it, her work with VS helped take her to the next level as a personality.
Photo: Getty Images4/12Gisele Bündchen
Runway shows: 1999-2006
Angel contract: 2000-2007
Before the pinkification of the VS runway, Gisele Bündchen brought the brand some high-fashion hauteur, courtesy of her power walk and unabashedly sexy persona. Other models played it coy, but Bündchen wasn’t afraid to vamp it up, becoming the show’s ultimate femme fatale in the process. Capable of emerging from a life-size, pink gift-wrapped box while retaining her sophistication, Bündchen classed up the joint throughout her tenure as an Angel, and remains on social media as arguably its most beloved—and hotly missed—presence.
Photo: Getty Images5/12Adriana Lima
Runway shows: 1999-present (except for 2009)
Angel contract: 2000-present
Would it even be a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show without Adriana Lima? A Brazilian bombshell for the ages, Lima has set the standard for sexiness since she arrived on the modeling scene and continues to serve as de facto leader of the Angel posse. With more than 15 years’ worth of Victoria’s Secret experience under her belt, Lima has her routine down pat and regularly serves to show the newbies how it’s done.