PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Maria Borges attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
She wins this slideshow for me. It's not even close.
Irina Shayk
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Irina Shayk attends '2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show' after show photocall at Le Grand Palais on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/WireImage)
So, yesterday a rumor hit that Irina is pregnant with Bradley Cooper's baby, although he didn't comment. This outfit feels very much like, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE except for all the things there are to see here, but obviously I'm not telling you anything, but INFER AWAY."
Alessandra Ambrosio in Alessandra Rich
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Alessandra Ambrosio attends '2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show' after show photocall at Le Grand Palais on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/WireImage)
Same as it ever was. This design is weird. Her throat and her belly look like they got matching trach holes.
Bella Hadid in Julien Macdonald; Gigi Hadid in Versace
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: (L-R) Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid attend the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
We'll get to Bella in a minute. As of this writing, the only Gigi pics available were of both of them, so starting with Hadid the Greater: Gigi's dress is cutting across her boobs strangely, like a car whose aligment is off, but if this was a flippy little mini it might have worked fairly well on her. As it is, she looks like a cave lady who made formalwear out of the hide of the engangered Disco Wildebeest.
Gigi Hadid
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Gigi Hadid attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This sort of helps you imagine the whole thing being shorter. I guess we did mullet dresses, and now we get sideways mullet dresses.
Bella Hadid
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Bella Hadid attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
And Bella's... I mean, like everything Julien Macdonald makes, it would be beautiful IF IT WERE NOT A WINDOW INTO HER BITS. She looks ridiculous. They're not even interesting undercrackers! YOU WORK FOR VICTORIA'S SECRET. PLAN AHEAD. Also, no matter where Bella is, she looks like she's either dumbfounded by it or just in deep WTF mode about it.
Devon Windsor
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Devon Windsor attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This is like the Juniors version of Bella's.
Lais Oliviera
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Lais Oliveira attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
That's a pretty decent minidress, right?
Lameka Fox
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Lameka Fox attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This almost feels like Lameka was ENRAGED that she and Lais looked so similar, so she threw some tulle over hers and made it look new. It's like upcycling, but out of fury.
Rachel Hilbert
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Rachel Hilbert attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This just looks like gangrene is spreading from her ladyparts.
Stella Maxwell
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Stella Maxwell attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
Sigh. I mean, considering where we are, okay. But it's so blah.
Elsa Hosk
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Elsa Hosk attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
Commit, y'all. Either you want the fur stole, or you don't.
Cindy Bruna
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Cindy Bruna attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This outfit looks like she made it out of a guardsman's busby and some Erdem clippings, but it's one of the best ones so far, which is... QUITE A STATEMENT.
Hereith Paul
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Herieth Paul attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This is visually striking without also involving underpants. Thus, a win of some kind.
Lais Ribeiro
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Lais Ribeiro attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Liu Wen attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
"It's not finished ye--" "It's cool. I'll belt it. No one will notice."
Lily Donaldson
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Lily Donaldson attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
Sexy and cool.
Kendall Jenner in Camilla & Marc
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Kendall Jenner attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This has a similarly slinky vibe. It's... fine? Obviously her bod can sell whatever it wants. She's genuinely a lovely-faced person and I badly hope she resists the plastic surgery bug that has bitten at least one of her sisters.
Joan Smalls
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Joan Smalls attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
I liked this better when, in the thumbnail, I thought those were gold stripes.
Maggie Lane
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: Maggie Lane attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
This feels like she stole it from Hailee Steinfeld's stylist, leaving her with nothing to pitch her client for an upcoming premiere.
Adriana Lima
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 30: adriana Lima attends the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after party on November 30, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret)
And this is weirdly sensible, in a way that admittedly seems weird for a VS event -- all the nudity is at least on-brand for a lingerie company -- but which is also refreshing to me because I am old. Thank you, Adriana.