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The Victoria’s Secret Trend Present made its grand return to TV on October 15 with dozens of acquainted faces, together with Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, and extra, however a minimum of one mannequin was lacking from the runway: Kendall Jenner.
Jenner beforehand walked within the model’s 2015, 2016, and 2018 vogue reveals earlier than the occasion was cancelled in 2019 following its organizer Edward Razek’s resignation attributable to public strain over criticism towards the model for making a tradition of misogyny and harassment. The style present returned in 2023 underneath a rebranded particular titled “The Tour ’23,” which confronted blended critiques for the way totally different it was from the unique reveals.
When the Victoria’s Secret Trend Present returned once more in 2024, viewers took be aware of how a lot nearer it resembled the occasion’s unique format, particularly with veteran fashions like Candice Swanepoel and Behati Prinsloo. However the place was Kendall Jenner?
Why wasn’t Kendall Jenner within the Victoria’s Secret Trend Present?
Although Victoria’s Secret nor Jenner have confirmed the rationale she wasn’t within the 2024 vogue present, TMZ reported in 2017 that Jenner’s contract with competing lingerie model La Perla prevented her from strolling within the 2017 vogue present attributable to a non-compete clause.
Whereas it’s unclear if Jenner remains to be underneath contract with La Perla, she did mannequin for Calvin Klein’s fall 2024 underwear marketing campaign, together with Alexander Skarsgard, which can have an analogous deal to La Perla stopping Jenner from modeling for different underwear manufacturers till her contract with them is full.
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There’s additionally the difficulty of cash that will have prevented her from returning for the 2024 vogue present. Forbes named Jenner was the highest-paid mannequin of 2022 with $69 million in earnings—greater than different Victoria’s Secret fashions like Gisele Bundchen (who earned $33 million), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (who earned $32 million), Cara Delevigne (who earned $31 million), and Adriana Lima (who earned $30 million.) Of these high 5, solely Lima walked the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Trend Present, which made extra sense for Victoria’s Secret to spend money on on condition that Lima was a former Angel for the model in contrast to Jenner.
Jenner beforehand instructed Glamour UK in 2018 in regards to the qualities she sees in Victoria’s Secret fashions. “Begin from inside. I do know that sounds corny nevertheless it’s true! I really feel like I couldn’t say I used to be as comfy with myself or as assured as I used to be the primary time I walked. It takes development and discovering your self and interior peace,” she stated.
Jenner additionally reacted to her and her sisters Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner’s Victoria’s Secret-inspired Halloween costume that yr. “They might have been on the market with me!” Jenner stated of how her sisters might’ve joined her for that yr’s vogue present. “They actually might have been. All of them might truly do it however Kourtney has the sass; she could be unhealthy angel.”
The Victoria’s Secret Trend Present is out there to stream on Prime Video.
