Clipped wings of desire

After decades as a market leader, US women’s lingerie empire Victoria’s Secret is faltering, as a younger, more body-positive generation turns elsewhere

Singer Hozier performs as models walk the runway at the annual Victoria’s Secret fashion show in London in December 2014
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein Pic: Getty

Time has not been kind to Victoria’s Secret. The lingerie retailer has a problem with the past and a problem with the future – and that leaves the present mired in controversy. Jeffrey Epstein is supposed to be history at Victoria’s Secret – and at its parent company, L Brands – but he is the skeleton that keeps rattling around in the closet to remind everyone that he once ...