Victoria's Secret and Others Marketing Lingerie to Tweens

Today in We’re Not Sure How We Feel About This news: Top underwear brand Victoria’s Secret, in an apparent attempt to expand upon the runaway success of its “collegiate” brand Pink, wants to tailor more of its marketing efforts to the middle-school-aged “tween” crowd.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, which ran the story under the provocative headline “Forget training bras. Girls are buying lingerie”, the demand for “intimate apparel” among young girls continues to grow because, in the words of Victoria’s parent brand Limited’s CFO, these tweens all “want to be older…they want to be cool like the girl in college”.

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