Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret has a flag-ship store in New York City's Herald Square.
The opposite of a vintage wine is a nonvintage wine, which is usually a blend from the produce of two or more years. The company gained notoriety in the 1990s after it began to use supermodels in their advertising and fashion shows; prominent supermodels featured by Victoria's Secret include Alessandra Ambrosio, Tyra Banks, Ana Beatriz Barros, Gisele Bündchen, Naomi Campbell, Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigova, Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova, Petra Nemcova, Frederique van der Wal, Heidi Klum and Tricia Helfer. In theory, the 95 percent rule in the United States applies equally to foreign imports, but there are obvious challenges in enforcing the regulation. Victoria's Secret products are also available through the catalogue business, Victoria's Secret Direct, with sales of approximately US$870 million. In the United States the requirement is 95%. All stores of Limited Brands are corporately owned. In Chile and South Africa the requirement is only 75 percent.

Victoria's Secret had sales of more than US$ 2.4 billion through their 900 retail stores in the United States in 2005. Australia, New Zealand, and the member states of the European Union require 85 percent same-year content for vintage-dated wine. Raymond eventually committed suicide in 1993, jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Most countries allow a vintage wine to include a portion of wine that is not from the labeled vintage. Since the takeover the company has been based in Columbus, Ohio though it has at times sought to foster an image of being British. From this tradition a common, though incorrect, usage applies the term to any wine that is perceived to be particularly old or of a particularly high quality. The company was founded in San Francisco, California, USA in 1977 by Roy Raymond, who sold it in 1982 to The Limited Inc., and it is now owned by the successor Limited Brands company. In certain wines it can denote quality, as in Port, where Port houses make and declare "vintage" Port in their best years.

Victoria's Secret is a retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, but is most recognizable as a marketer of lingerie. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all grown in a single specified year. In wine-making, vintage is the process of picking the grapes and creating the finished product.