Gigi Hadid Is Pretty in Pink as She Opens the 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: 'We Are Back'

Mar. 15, 2025

Gigi Hadid at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.Photo:Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock

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Gigi Hadidis back on the Victoria’s Secret runway.

The model, 29, made an unforgettable appearance at the2024 show, taking place in N.Y.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 15, ascending from the floor before kicking off the show with her signature strut.

A verse from the INXS hit “Never Tear Us Apart” played as Hadid walked, with the lyric “We all have wings but some of us don’t know why,” hitting extra hard.

“We are back,” the screen read, before Hadid descended back into the runway.

Gigi Hadid at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock

The day before the event,Hadid posted a carousel of throwback pictureswith a caption emphasizing her excitement. “After today’s rehearsal I can confirm that it will forever feel like a dream come true,” she wrote.

“Looking back on some of my favorite VS show moments over the years and I’m so excited to do it again tomorrow, with the most incredible, dedicated, creative VS Team & with so many women I love and some I grew up watching. It is an honor.”

Gigi Hadid.Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock

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Prior to the show, Victoria’s Secret shared that models Imaan Hammam, Candice Swanepoel, Grace Elizabeth, Devyn Garcia, Paloma Elsesser, Taylor Hill and Mayowa Nicholas would be walking. In social media posts,Adriana LimaandBarbara Palvinalso revealed they would be as well.

Cher is set to headline the show, with Tyla and Lisa performing as well. “It’s a woman’s world, so it’s understood that you can’t have a fashion show without the mother of fashion herself,” Victoria’s Secret wrote of the music icon on Instagram.

Ming Xi, Grace Elizabeth, Cindy Bruna, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, and Alexina Graham at the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty for Victoria’s Secret

In May, the brand announced thereturn of the runway show.

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After coming under fire for a lack of diversity, the show was canceled in 2019. It returned in 2023 asThe Tour, a streamed nontraditional show that was filmed in Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Lagos, Nigeria and Bogotá, Colombia. Hadid narrated the spectacle, which aired on Prime Video.

The model made her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut in 2015 and appeared in the 2016 show in Paris. Hadid missed the 2017 show butreturned in 2018alongside her sister,Bella.

source: people.com