Victoria's Secret 2014 Fashion Show in London: Million Pound Bras and Angel Wings

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Supermodels walking the catwalk wearing million-pound bras and butterfly wings – it could only be a Victoria's Secret fashion show.

 

The US lingerie label brought its annual spectacle to London for the first time, dazzling guests with a high-octane mix of fashion and entertainment that featured 47 extravagantly dressed models and performances by pop princesses Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande.

 

Some of the world's best-known models sashayed down the catwalk wearing lingerie paired with sparkly wings, feather skirts, and gold knee-high stiletto boots.

 

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Candice Swanepoel (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images)

Doutzen Kroes, who had her second child just five months ago, showed off her enviable post-baby body (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Constance Jablonski passes Doutzen Kroes on the runway during the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Earl's Court exhibition centre in London (Leon Neal/AFP)

Lindsay Ellingson wears spectacular golden wings during the Gilded Angels section (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Devon Windsor (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images)

Candice Swanepoel walks the catwalk in the Gilded Angels section (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images)

Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio showed off the brand's "fantasy bras" – encrusted with thousands of jewels and worth a reported $2m each (£1.28m).

 

Karlie Kloss wore gilded angel wings made of 18K gold.

 

Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima walk the runway wearing jewel-encrusted Dream Angels Fantasy Bras, each worth $2m (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Ed Sheeran smiles sheepishly as Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima walk the catwalk (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Karlie Kloss wears gilded angel wings made of 18K gold (Dimitrios Kambouris/Pascal LeSegretain/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift performed in glamorous peach and lace, and later changed into a racy black lingerie set worn with a matching lace cape.

 

Ariana Grande, Hozier and Ed Sheeran also performed as models strutted around them. Asked whether he was nervous about performing so close to scantily-clad women, Sheeran joked: "That's how I usually perform."

 

Taylor Swift performs in the Victoria's Secret show (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Magdalena Frackowiak (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift performs as Karlie Kloss takes to the catwalk (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Ariana Grande performs on the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images)

Izabel Goulart walks the runway while Hozier sings his hit Take Me To Church (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge called the performance a "little slumber party that we get to have in London" – albeit an expensive and slickly managed one.

 

The showing in London is part of the company's efforts to boost their global profile, while the show itself will be seen in approximately 200 countries.

 

Lily Donaldson takes to the runway in the Fairy Tales section of the Victoria's Secret show (Tim P Whitby/Getty Images)

Behati Prinsloo (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Elsa Hosk (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Victoria's Secret model Kate Grigorieva walks the runway while Ed Sheeran performs (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Jourdan Dunn, Devon Windsor, Magdalena Frackowiak and Stella Maxwell walk the catwalk during the finale (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Victoria's Secret models walk the runway during the finale (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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The show ended with the models parading and dancing amid hundreds of balloons. A post-show party followed late into the night.