# First-ever Victoria’s Secret Angel Karen Mulder shares how she got her wings

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/first-ever-victorias-secret-angel-karen-mulder-shares-how-she-got-her-wings/
- Published: 2026-11-10T21:36:04+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T22:34:09+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://pagesix.com/2026/11/10/style/first-ever-victorias-secret-angel-karen-mulder-shares-how-she-got-her-wings/
- Topics: Business, Markets, World

## Key points

- Karen Mulder says she proposed the Victoria’s Secret Angels idea.
- She was the first model to wear the brand’s wings in 1998.
- After decades out of the spotlight, she is returning to modelling.

## Summary

Karen Mulder says she came up with the idea of Victoria’s Secret Angels after thinking of “Charlie’s Angels” and suggesting the name to the company’s marketing chief. She became the first model to wear the brand’s now-signature wings on the runway in 1998, helping establish an enduring part of its fashion shows.

Mulder, now 57, opened that show in white feathered wings, while Tyra Banks also wore wings. She has appeared on more than 700 magazine covers, including 22 issues of Vogue, and is the only model to have appeared on the cover of American Vogue in consecutive months. After speaking out about abuse in fashion in the early 2000s, she says she was “cancelled” and left the spotlight for decades; she has now returned with a Vogue Germany cover and attended this year’s Victoria’s Secret show.

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