Victoria’s Secret’s Lacie Collection 2026, lensed by Renell Medrano and styled by Carlos Nazario, signals a deliberate pivot toward sensory comfort and quiet sensuality. Featuring ForeverStretch lace across thongs, cheeky panties, bralettes, and camisoles, and fronted by Amelia Gray, Paloma Elsesser, and Reign Judge, the collection is proof that the brand’s most enduring strength has always been softness over spectacle.
Imagine late afternoon light filtering through sheer curtains, the kind that turns skin golden and makes everything feel like a half-remembered dream. That is the precise mood Renell Medrano captures in the Lacie 2026 campaign imagery, where models Amelia Gray, Paloma Elsesser, and Reign Judge exist in an unhurried, luminous quiet. No performance. No armor. Just lace, doing what lace has always done best.
Victoria’s Secret has navigated a complicated cultural decade. But in the Lacie, the brand finds its most assured footing in years: a collection that trusts the fabric to speak first.
What Makes the Lacie 2026 Collection Feel Different This Season
The fabric question answered
Our editors noted, upon handling the pieces, that the ForeverStretch lace feels genuinely unlike what the intimates category has offered at this price point. It moves. It yields. It does not pinch at the hip or gap at the band. Victoria’s Secret describes it as their softest and stretchiest lace yet, and for once, that claim holds up under scrutiny. It is the kind of detail that matters most when the conversation around lingerie has shifted so completely toward feel.
In a market where Skims has trained an entire generation to prioritize second-skin compression and Savage X Fenty commands the conversation around size inclusivity, the Lacie stakes its ground differently. This is femininity as texture rather than silhouette. Delicate rather than declarative.
The Campaign Eye: Renell Medrano, Carlos Nazario, and the Mood of Now
Creative vision behind the lens
The February 2026 shoot, directed by Griffin Stoddard and styled with considerable restraint by Carlos Nazario, places Champion and Daing in environments that feel inhabited rather than staged. Chief Creative Director Adam Selman’s fingerprints are unmistakable: a studied romanticism that borrows from Helmut Newton’s architectural stillness but strips it of provocation.
Sonny Molina’s hair and Sam Visser’s makeup complete the picture with deliberate understatement. Nothing competes with the lace. That, in itself, is a design philosophy.
The Style Edit: Which Lacie Pieces Earn a Place in Your Wardrobe
Cut for life, not just a moment
Having walked the showroom floor and examined the full range, the Lacie thong, cheeky, and bralette remain the collection’s backbone. The low-rise waistband sits without cutting. The lace-up floral thong, elevated with a touch of velvet, is the one piece that feels genuinely editorial. Worn beneath tailored trousers or with nothing else at all, it carries its own logic.
The camisole deserves particular attention. In a summer wardrobe increasingly built around the idea of the visible intimate, the Lacie cami bridges the gap between lingerie and outerwear with a lightness that most competitors have not yet mastered.
Victoria’s Secret in 2026: Where Stability Becomes Its Own Kind of Strength
Under CEO Hillary Super, the brand has traded spectacle for something steadier. The Angels are gone; the fantasy has been replaced by feeling. “More than anything, we’re in the business of feelings,” Super has said publicly, and the Lacie collection is the clearest expression of that philosophy yet. It does not try to out-edge Cosabella or out-cool Agent Provocateur. It simply offers softness, consistently, at scale. For the world’s largest intimates brand, that is not a small thing.
The Lacie Collection 2026 is not trying to be subversive or sculptural. It is trying to be felt. In a season glutted with statement pieces and borrowed provocation, that singular focus on sensory pleasure is, quietly, the most sophisticated choice Victoria’s Secret could have made. Buy the camisole. Keep the thong. Let the lace do the talking.
Photographer: Renell Medrano
Stylist: Carlos Nazario
Hair: Sonny Molina
Makeup: Sam Visser
Models: Amelia Gray, Paloma Elsesser, and Reign Judge
Images Courtesy of Victoria’s Secret
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