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Rapinoe’s Secret: Victoria’s Secret’s Sales Tank After Hiring Megan Rapinoe as Brand Ambassador
breitbart ^ | 18 Oct 2023 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

Posted on 10/18/2023 5:27:46 PM PDT by dennisw

Women’s lingerie chain Victoria’s Secret is reportedly pulling back from its recent woke ad campaigns featuring obese models, transgenders, and anti-American gay soccer star Megan Rapinoe after sales plummeted.

In 2021, the sexy underwear company moved away from what it called a “hyper-sexualized” image and dove face-first into a woke remake of its brand. But apparently, the results of this rebranding was a steep loss of revenue, Fox News reported.

The rebranding kicked off in July of 2021 when the company named Rapinoe and transgender model Valentina Sampaio its brand ambassadors.

At the time, hard-core, left-wing activist Rapinoe had blasted Victoria’s Secret as pushing a message that was “really harmful” and one that was “patriarchal, sexist, viewing not just what it meant to be sexy but what the clothes were trying to accomplish through a male lens and through what men desired.”

The campaign also included overweight models and plus-sized mannequins, upon which the clothing was displayed in ads and stores.

Along with the public face rebranding, the company also moved to fill most of its board positions with female applicants.

This rebranding campaign came two years after the company’s famed annual fashion show was done away with. The last such show occurred in 2018.

But despite all those moves to woke the company and please left-wing critics, Business of Fashion reporter Cathaleen Chen was shocked to report this week that all the “favorable reviews from online critics never translated into sales.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: failure; gowokegobroke; rapinoe; tank; victoriassecret
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1 posted on 10/18/2023 5:27:46 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Even worse than the trannys now being featured, are the obese land whales.


2 posted on 10/18/2023 5:28:58 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: dennisw
Charlotte McKinney to the rescue!


3 posted on 10/18/2023 5:30:04 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dennisw

Chen also reported that along with going back to its former sexy image, the company was also planning to revive the fashion show with its famed “Angels” walking the catwalk.

In the end, the wokening was an abject failure. And Victoria’s Secret chief executive Martin Waters drily noted, “Despite everyone’s best endeavors, it’s not been enough to carry the day.”


4 posted on 10/18/2023 5:30:25 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: dennisw

Whale on the beach!


5 posted on 10/18/2023 5:30:29 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dennisw

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
Idiots need to fry.


6 posted on 10/18/2023 5:30:36 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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To: kiryandil

Not Guilty!


7 posted on 10/18/2023 5:30:57 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 votes my ass.)
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To: dennisw

The numbers:

“projected revenue for 2023 at $6.2 billion, 5% lower than last year and even lower than the $7.5 billion from 2020.”

Let us see the net income numbers.

Watching the woke go broke is much more fun with real numbers.

;-)


8 posted on 10/18/2023 5:31:30 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: dennisw

Woke kills.


9 posted on 10/18/2023 5:31:50 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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To: dennisw

Chen was shocked to report this week that all the “favorable reviews from online critics never translated into sales.”


maybe on line critics are not customers................


10 posted on 10/18/2023 5:32:52 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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But despite all those moves to woke the company and please left-wing critics, Business of Fashion reporter Cathaleen Chen was shocked to report this week that all the “favorable reviews from online critics never translated into sales.”

What a surprise -- NOT. "Go Woke, Go Broke" is not just a saying, it's an economic law.

11 posted on 10/18/2023 5:33:24 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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Ha Ha Ha Ha.....That lesbian Rapinoe could not even be a good saleslesbian for cucumbers. You reap what you sow.


12 posted on 10/18/2023 5:34:43 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: kiryandil

That’s a nice looking cheeseburger! Bet no one but me notices!


13 posted on 10/18/2023 5:35:27 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Cheeseburger?


14 posted on 10/18/2023 5:36:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: FamiliarFace

There was a cheeseburger?


15 posted on 10/18/2023 5:36:24 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 votes my ass.)
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To: FamiliarFace

The cheeseburger is the most valuable thing in that short clip.


16 posted on 10/18/2023 5:36:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dennisw

Megan Purplehair is the absolute kiss of death for anything.

Average women cannot relate to a bitter retired soccer lesbian.


17 posted on 10/18/2023 5:38:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dennisw
Woke, Tranny, Victoria's Secret is as successful as Woke, Tranny, Ukraine.

Maybe even more so.

18 posted on 10/18/2023 5:39:24 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Cheeseburger?

I thought it was an ad for large melons.


19 posted on 10/18/2023 5:39:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dennisw

I’m shocked!


20 posted on 10/18/2023 5:42:13 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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