Article Summary: Meet the named models and their verified origins before tonight’s Los Angeles show. #VSFashionShow #VictoriasSecret #VSModels #GigiHadid
Victoria’s Secret brings its fashion show to Los Angeles on October 18, with Gigi Hadid, Adriana Lima and a growing international cast. Here are the announced and reported models and their origins, separated by confirmation status. The broadcast starts at 4:30 p.m. Pacific; the final runway roster is still pending.
Victoria’s Secret models confirmed on the brand’s cast page
The brand’s cast page currently identifies 15 models. Its photographs name Amelia Gray, Grace Elizabeth, Precious Lee, Liu Wen and Joan Smalls. They also name Adriana Lima, Devyn Garcia, Imaan Hammam, Anok Yai and Candice Swanepoel. Ashley Graham, Paloma Elsesser, Abby Champion, Alex Consani and Gigi Hadid complete that published group.
That is the strongest starting point for a cast guide. Other announcements have expanded the names in circulation, but the brand’s own page still promises updates. A name missing there is not proof of a rejection. Nor does an appearance in an advertising campaign confirm a runway booking.
Origins below mean documented birthplace or hometown, with the distinction stated where it matters. They do not mean ethnicity, current residence or presumed citizenship. Modeling careers cross borders; a single country label can obscure the route that brought someone to this stage.
Brazil and Puerto Rico
Adriana Lima comes from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian model appears on Victoria’s Secret’s current cast page. Salvador is her place of origin, rather than a label borrowed from the cities where she now works. Her inclusion connects tonight’s cast with the brand’s established runway names.
Joan Smalls was born and raised in Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Both her model biography and her own accounts of home identify that northern coastal town. Puerto Rico is a United States territory; calling her Puerto Rican preserves the specific identity she uses herself. It also avoids treating all American models as one undifferentiated group.
Those distinctions matter in an international roster. The location of an agency office tells readers where a model has representation. It does not tell them where she grew up. This guide uses the latter information wherever a reliable account establishes it.
Victoria’s Secret models from Europe, China and South Africa
Candice Swanepoel was born in Mooi River, South Africa, and grew up on a farm there. Her own biography names the village and describes that childhood. She belongs in the South African contingent, even though international modeling has taken her far from it.
Imaan Hammam was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her Moroccan and Egyptian family heritage is distinct from that Dutch birthplace. Listing her simply as Moroccan or Egyptian would lose an important part of her biography. Amsterdam is the relevant origin for this hometown guide.
Liu Wen was born in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. Her birthplace provides the specific geographical detail behind the broader description of her as a Chinese model. She is among the names pictured on the brand’s published 2026 cast page.
The show’s geography therefore reaches well beyond the familiar Los Angeles–New York circuit. The useful fashion question is how the styling works across its cast. A consistent visual idea should survive differences in height, proportion and individual presence.
American hometowns in the Victoria’s Secret cast
Abby Champion grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. She has discussed that upbringing in interviews, including its emphasis on family. Birmingham here means the Alabama city, rather than its English namesake. Her photograph is on the official cast page.
Alex Consani comes from Petaluma in Northern California’s Bay Area. Vogue’s interview with Consani and her family identifies Petaluma as her hometown. Her current work takes her onto international runways, but California is the origin relevant to this list.
Amelia Gray was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her agency biography states that directly. Tonight’s Los Angeles setting therefore has a home-city connection for her. She works professionally as Amelia Gray; that is the name used here.
Ashley Graham identifies Lincoln, Nebraska, as her hometown. She has written about returning there with her family. This is a hometown description, rather than an attempt to compress every place she has lived into one label. Graham is also on the official cast page.
Florida, Georgia and another California connection
Devyn Garcia is a Miami, Florida, native. In an interview about her work with Victoria’s Secret, she discussed summer dressing and surfing. Miami is a verified hometown connection; her surname alone would provide no basis for assigning a different national origin.
Grace Elizabeth comes from Lake City, Florida. In interviews conducted from her family home, she has described growing up around fishing and outdoor activities. Lake City gives her entry more precision than a generic American label. She appears in the brand’s current cast photographs.
Precious Lee grew up in the Atlanta area of Georgia. Her interviews also identify College Park as the community where she spent her childhood. Those descriptions are compatible: College Park is part of metropolitan Atlanta. For readers tracing the cast’s roots, Georgia is the relevant starting point.
Gigi Hadid was born in Los Angeles, California, and has also discussed growing up in Santa Barbara. Her Dutch and Palestinian family heritage should not replace those American geographical origins. A birthplace and a family background answer different questions.
Two models whose biographies cross borders
Anok Yai was born in Cairo, Egypt, to South Sudanese parents and grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire. Calling her only Egyptian would confuse birthplace with family background. Calling her only American would omit the earlier part of that journey. Both locations belong in her entry.
Paloma Elsesser was born in North London, England, and grew up in Los Angeles. Her interview with COS identifies Kentish Town as her London birthplace. She later established her career in New York. For this guide, London is the birthplace and Los Angeles the childhood home.
These entries explain why a flag beside each face would be inadequate. Birthplace, upbringing and heritage can all be different. The precise descriptions give readers useful information without making assumptions about the passports a model holds.
Further names reported for the Victoria’s Secret runway
Beyond those 15 names, InStyle’s casting guide lists Alessandra Ambrosio, Barbara Palvin, Cindy Bruna and Elsa Hosk. It also includes Gabriela Moura, Yoon Young Bae and Jordan Leftwich. These seven expand the documented reporting, although they are not yet pictured on the brand page reviewed for this article.
Alessandra Ambrosio was born in Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her model biography identifies that southern Brazilian city. Barbara Palvin comes from Budapest, Hungary, which she has called her hometown in interviews. Those origins should remain separate from where either model now lives or works.
Cindy Bruna was born in Saint-Raphaël, France. Her model biography identifies her as French and also describes her Italian and Congolese family background. Elsa Hosk grew up in Bromma, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Her interview with PORTER provides that more specific childhood location.
The reported PINK lineup and its origins
Gabriela Moura, also known as Gabi Moura, was born in Niterói, in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state. Describing her simply as born in Rio de Janeiro city would be imprecise. InStyle places her in the PINK section of the 2026 presentation.
Yoon Young Bae comes from Daegu, South Korea. She has discussed her beginnings there in interviews. Jordan Leftwich began modeling while living in Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Los Angeles as a child. Her own biography supports that childhood route; it does not establish a separate birthplace.
Quen Blackwell is another reported PINK participant, named in Cosmopolitan’s show guide and The Zoe Report’s casting coverage. Her recent interview with The Cut identifies Cincinnati, Ohio, as her birthplace and the Dallas suburbs of Texas as her childhood home. That distinction corrects the easy assumption that Texas was also her birthplace.
Together, the official page and those reports account for 23 named participants. This remains a pre-show cast guide, rather than a claim that all 23 have already walked.
Victoria’s Secret still has an unannounced runway place
The official Victoria’s Secret show guide says the Angels Among Us winner will be revealed during tonight’s broadcast. That model’s identity is still pending at the time of writing. Finalists are not interchangeable with a winner, so this guide does not award the place in advance.
The confirmed music lineup includes KATSEYE, Megan Moroney, Megan Thee Stallion and Tate McRae. They are performers, not additions to the model count. The live show begins on YouTube at 4:30 p.m. Pacific and 7:30 p.m. Eastern. The TikTok aftershow follows at 5:45 p.m. Pacific and 8:45 p.m. Eastern.
For the clothes, watch how the lingerie sits beneath the larger runway construction. Wings can dominate a distant photograph. A moving shot reveals the relationship between the bra band, waist treatment and stride. Those details make the difference between an outfit built around a model and a prop placed on her.
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