The 2015 Victoria’s Secret show took place in New York on Tuesday night. From the omniscient power of the Kardashians to Rihanna’s absence, what does it tell us about the world in 2015? Taylor Hill and model Megan Puleri with singer Selena Gomez. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret The 2015 Victoria’s Secret show took place in New York on Tuesday night. Being proud and honoured is the new thin Ha ha, only joking. Nothing is the new thin. Have you seen the size of these women? But, still, three years after the rest of the world tired of the humblebrag, the topline story from the 2015 Victoria’s Secret show has been about what an honour it is to take part. The actor Yolanda Foster, whose daughter Gigi Hadid took part for the first time, hashtagged her backstage Instagrams with “#ProudMommy #Grateful #BucketList”. “Pinch me!” screamed model Bridget Malcolm’s post-runway Instagram. Meanwhile, days earlier, Hadid’s taped tears of joy on getting the job went viral, while Kendall Jenner described getting the nod from VS casting on the day she turned 20 as the best birthday present ever.

The tightly controlled social media from this year’s show is too neatly on-message to be an accident. Was talking about how honoured you felt instead of how long you planked for this morning part of the 2015 VS contract? Kendall Jenner at the 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Victoria’s Secret is aimed at girls, not women This year’s show had an unmistakably Junior High feel. Karlie Kloss and many other veterans of the event were missing, replaced by no fewer than 10 new ‘Angels’. The figure of the central, powerful female performer – as played in previous years by Taylor Swift and Rihanna – was missing. With top billing going to Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding, the female talent felt light. Even more tellingly, the branding of VS Pink – the cheaper, cuter, pinker sub-brand of VS – dominated many of the backstage images, with endless models pictured holding the Pink Puppy, which is some kind of godawful diamante cuddly toy that I promise you really don’t need to know anything further about.

Does turning VS into a junior event excuse the witlessness of it? Or does turning the full force of this crusade for bodily perfection as the goal of goals on to impressionable young girls make it worse? Gigi Hadid and Rachel Hilbert backstage at the 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. home depot traverse curtain rodsPhotograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria's Secrthe tortilla curtain historical background This is the Kardashians’ world, and we just live in iteclipse cassidy blackout curtainsPoor Lily Aldridge, who at 29 finally got her dream of wearing the Fantasy Bra – a multimillion pound gem-encrusted corset; gaiam blackout curtains

not everyone’s idea of a good time, but whatever – was well and truly overshadowed by Kendall Jenner in tiny pants and a silk scarf cape thing that was half bridal train, half Rio Carnival float costume. In the cause of ensuring blanket Kardashian ownership of the event, Kendall’s divorced parents Caitlyn and Kris eclipsed all other celebrity attendees by choosing their backstage visit to Kendall as the moment to put differences aside and pose for the paparazzi together.jcpenney curtain holdbacks Lais Ribeiro at the 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. pottery barn grommet cafe curtains Rihanna aced the show’s most stylish moment, without even being theredunelm brown eyelet curtains Rihanna, who pulled out of performing at the show last week – possibly in support of her friend Jourdan Dunn, who called the show “BS” on since-deleted tweets, or possibly because she was busy in the studio – sent a good-luck gift that killed it on Instagram.

She sent the models a bunch of red balloons with a note: “Wish I was there with you guys. See you all next time. We are totally nicking this idea when we next bail on something. Gigi Hadid on the 2015 Victoria’s Secret fashion show. The models are possibly even more over the witlessness of it all than we are Polish model Magdalena Frackowiak was captured on video interrupting a reporter from TMZ to say: “No guys, not with these kind of questions. Ask more smart questions, not with eating after the show. You make me look like an idiot. Yeah, but it seems like I’m starving myself and can’t wait for the show to end to eat.” Magdalena Frackowiak on the Victoria’s Secret catwalk. ‘Leg cleavage’ is a thing OK, we just made it up. But leg cleavage is what we’re calling the style worn by Ellie Goulding and Selena Gomez on stage. A deep V-neck for cleavage is standard at VS, but these dresses had a mirror-image shape, with an upturned V cut into the hem to show off inner thigh.

If ever there was a trend made for a Victoria’s Secret show, this is it.DIRTY HEADS THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. Saturday, October 22 2016 7:00 PM Door | 1208 New York 146 Clifton Park, New York 12065 After two decades spent chiseling their unique, multi-genre infused sound, Dirty Heads have finally come into their own. Since the release of their 2008 debut Any Port in a Storm, the five-piece band—Jared Watson (vocals), Dustin “Duddy B” Bushnell (vocals/guitar), Jon Olazabal (percussion), Matt Ochoa (drums) and David Foral (bass)—has consistently experimented with their sunny style, leaning heavily on reggae fused with hip-hop cornerstones and scaling back for more acoustic fare, darting between extremes. But it’s with their fifth and self-titled album that the group has felt fully confident in a body of work, ready to bring their unique style to the masses. “It’s the most core Dirty Heads album we’ve done,” explains Watson, who formed the collective with Bushnell in 1996.

“One of the most important things about this album is the reason we self-titled it. This album has all of the elements that we’ve tried to play around with. We had to go through those other albums to really find out exactly who we are, where it was natural. Now, I just think our sound is better and more confident.” Recorded in Los Angeles over a period of four months, Dirty Heads marks a stylistic heel-turn for the Huntington Beach, Calif. natives, who enlisted a diverse team of hit-makers including: Da Internz (Rihanna, Nicki Minaj), Drew Pearson (Katy Perry, Zac Brown Band), David Kahne (Lana Del Rey, The Strokes), Jimmy Harry (Madonna, Diplo), Jonas Jeberg (Demi Lovato, Fifth Harmony), and a handful of others. The record spans lively tracks like reggae-bounced “Oxygen” to the instantly catchy sing-along “Too Cruel” and horn-blasted lead single “That’s All I Need,” the latter of which captures the nostalgia of carefree adolescence. Produced by Justin Gray (Mariah Carey, Joss Stone), ‘That’s All I Need’ “just has a good feel to it, kind of hanging out with your friends in the neighborhood on a Sunday in the summer back when you were growing up,” says Duddy.

“Everyone’s got that good memory, so that’s where we started aiming for. Let’s make this feel-good summer song that people can put on in the backyard with their friends and family.” Dirty Heads comes in the wake of their most successful release to date, 2014’s Sound of Change, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums chart. This album is marked differently than its predecessors—2008’s Any Port in a Storm, 2012’s Cabin by the Sea and 2013’s acoustic offering Home – Phantoms of Summer, the former of which spawned the smash single “Lay Me Down” featuring Rome of Sublime with Rome that topped the Alternative Songs chart for 11 weeks. The band’s prior releases set the groundwork for their latest, proving a clear indication of their artistic growth, and an ambitious one at that. For the LP, they decided to toy with sequencing, splitting the album into two parts—Day and Night—guiding listeners through their day from start to finish.

Duddy explains that it was done in response to the listening public’s reliance on playlists, and artistically executed by color-coding each ‘Day’ song (red, orange, yellow) and ‘Night’ song (purple, green, black) to reflect the vibes of feeling positive, exuberant versus chilled out and low key. “Nowadays, it’s so easy to just listen to one song,” he says. “Have a song on your iTunes playlist, you probably don’t even know who the artist is because it doesn’t matter, you just like that track. So we were trying to provide the order we think you should listen to these in and get people in front of what we think.” Watson adds, “When you do that and you’re doing it in our original way, I feel like it makes it timeless.” With a solid fan-base already in place, Dirty Heads are focusing their sights on something they’ve been edging towards for years: breaking the mainstream. “We want our fans to love it, because we love what we do and we want to keep doing it,” says Watson.