on Wednesday, May 15, showing one of its models texting a"VS Squad" group chat to spread the news. The back of her T-shirt declares on behalf of the brand,"We are back."
This time around, the brand says it has"read the comments and heard you"—implying the program will correct its past mistakes and set a fresh precedent."Let’s hope they got it right," one commenter wrote on the announcement post. Uproar ensued when the brand's former chief of marketing, Ed Razek, made comments about trans models that offended readers in a 2018 interview with. The former executive had also previously spoken disparagingly of plus-size models. In 2019, he stepped down from his role. Former chief executive Les Wexner also left the brand in 2021.