{"id":1553810,"date":"2022-07-14T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553810"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:35:24","slug":"victorias-secret-went-woke-now-theyre-laying-off-160-management-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victorias-secret-went-woke-now-theyre-laying-off-160-management-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s Secret Went Woke. Now They\u2019re Laying Off 160 Management Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvictorias-secret-went-woke-now-theyre-laying-off-160-management-positions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>They did away with the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/victorias-secret-replaces-angels-with-megan-rapinoe-other-gender-equity-campaigners\">Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels<\/a>, replaced models with the likes of soccer star and liberal activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/megan-rapinoe\">Megan Rapinoe<\/a>, and even hired the company\u2019s first biologically male <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-victorias-secret-hires-first-transgender-paul-bois\">transgender model<\/a> \u2014 but, unsurprisingly, the wokeness has not paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s Secret is firing a whopping 160 management-level employees at its Ohio headquarters, an effort to save the business $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, sales at the lingerie company\u00a0dropped by 4.5% to $1.5 billion in the most recent quarter, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/13\/victorias-secret-shares-tumble-after-cutting-160-hq-managers-to-save-40m\/\">reported<\/a>, adding that comparable sales from the same period last year have declined by 8%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first announced our repositioning, we got a significant amount of mail from people who said, \u2018This is terrible, you\u2019re scorching the earth, you\u2019re spoiling your brand. We love the way it was before. Why are you changing it?\u2019\u201d Victoria\u2019s Secret CEO Martin Waters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retaildive.com\/news\/victorias-secret-ceo-the-haters-have-gone-away\/619743\/\">said<\/a>, denying the changes hurt the company.<\/p>\n<p>Those complaining were described by Waters as mostly men and others \u201cwho don\u2019t subscribe to the values that we subscribe to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company in 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-victorias-secret-hires-first-transgender-paul-bois\">hired<\/a> its first transgender model, Valentina Sampaio, a biological male who identifies as female.<\/p>\n<p>The move came as longtime VS chief marketing officer Ed Razek, who criticized the idea of hiring transgender models for the company\u2019s fashion show, resigned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like, why doesn\u2019t your show do this? Shouldn\u2019t you have transsexuals in the show?\u201d Razek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/victorias-secret-ed-razek-monica-mitro-interview\">told<\/a> Vogue in 2018, when asked about so-called inclusivity. \u201cNo. No, I don\u2019t think we should. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It\u2019s a 42-minute entertainment special. That\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And by 2021, the iconic VS Angels were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/victorias-secret-replaces-angels-with-megan-rapinoe-other-gender-equity-campaigners\">dropped<\/a>, replaced for a new promotional campaign called the \u201cVS Collective,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/victorias-secret-replaces-angels-with-megan-rapinoe-other-gender-equity-campaigners\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashion is a business of change. We must evolve and change to grow,\u201d CEO Leslie Wexner <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/05\/10\/victorias-secret-rethinking-annual-fashion-show-leaving-network-tv\/\">said<\/a> in 2019, announcing the end of the Angels fashion show broadcast. \u201cWith that in mind, we have decided to rethink the traditional Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe was tapped as one of the women to be in the new campaign, apparently based on her activism and achievements rather than her body or looks.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer star notably slammed the company she teamed up with for its \u201cpatriarchal\u201d and \u201csexist\u201d past.<\/p>\n<p>The marketing was \u201cpatriarchal, 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,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/16\/business\/victorias-secret-collective-megan-rapinoe.html\">complained<\/a> to The New York Times. \u201cAnd it was very much marketed toward younger women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe added that the VS Angels were \u201creally harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/victorias-secret-replaces-angels-with-megan-rapinoe-other-gender-equity-campaigners\">Victoria\u2019s Secret Replaces \u2018Angels\u2019 with Megan Rapinoe, Other \u2018Gender Equity\u00a0Campaigners\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They did away with the iconic Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels, replaced models with the likes of soccer star and liberal activist Megan Rapinoe, and even hired the company\u2019s first biologically male transgender model \u2014 but, unsurprisingly, the wokeness has not paid off. 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