Welcome to Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

Audacy Studios | Campside Media

Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Documentary, Arts

4.5 • 976 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome to Fallen Angel, a documentary podcast about Victoria's Secret...and its many, many secrets. The series investigates the origin story of one of the world’s most iconic brands and its effect on American culture for nearly 40 years, all told by women who witnessed what really happened behind the curtain. Fallen Angel goes back to the beginning of the lingerie megabrand to confront the many ways the brand influenced how a generation of women think about sex, desire, and beauty. The series also explores Les Wexner, the private man who has been at the head of the company for over 35 years, and his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	When I close my eyes and think about it, it's this hot, pink, glitter whirlwind of flashing
0:15.6	lights, loud music.
0:21.7	It's very technical.
0:26.9	Victoria's secrets spun up a fantasy world.
0:30.7	Women were sexually liberated, their bodies were celebrated, it all felt so empowering.
0:43.5	In the Victoria's Secret World, models aren't models, but heavenly angels.
0:49.0	Angels, thank you for taking time away from being intermediaries between God and mankind
0:53.6	to model lingerie.
0:58.3	But for some of the women under the white-hot lights, Victoria's Secret was a very different
1:07.7	place.
1:09.5	This is the real story of Victoria's Secret, directly from women who devoted themselves
1:16.6	to the brand.
1:17.6	I was so hungry and my body wasn't working.
1:21.6	I was not there.
1:24.7	The women who were keeping Victoria's many, many secrets.
1:29.4	He said that women only work out to look good naked, to have sex with men, like gross.
1:36.6	Just gross.
1:38.0	I'm Vanessa Gerberiades, and I'm Justine Harmon.
1:41.5	In our new investigative series Fallen Angel, we traced the origin story and meteoric rise
1:46.7	of Victoria's Secret, one of the most inescapable cultural and business phenomenons in American history.
1:54.1	The pink and white striped shopping bag with the ribbon handles, I mean, it's iconic.
1:59.5	We'll be talking a lot about the private man who's been at the head of the brand for
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy Studios | Campside Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy Studios | Campside Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.