The Unseen Glow: Huy Luong’s Backstage Vision at Victoria’s Secret 2025

In a world built on spectacle, Huy Luong’s backstage photographs from the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show remind us that the quiet moments often hold the loudest truths. While the runway glimmered with new faces and reinvented wings, his lens lingered where the pulse of the show truly lived, behind the curtain.

Luong’s images, captured for British Vogue, draw you into a world suspended between transformation and performance. The lighting is soft, the movements unguarded, the air thick with anticipation. A model adjusts her robe in front of a mirror, the reflection catching both her focus and fatigue. Another stands still while a stylist’s hand reaches into the frame to secure a strap. These moments are not curated, yet they are perfect in their imperfection.

There is intimacy in the way Luong observes the rhythm backstage. His photographs unfold like fragments of conversation. The flick of a mascara wand. The stretch of fabric over skin. A quiet exchange of looks between models who share a mirror’s edge. His eye turns the routine into ritual.

Backstage at this year’s show felt different. Adam Selman’s creative direction brought energy that was playful, self-aware, and free from nostalgia. The cast reflected that shift, a mix of veterans and newcomers, athletes and artists, pregnant models and rising names. Luong’s camera made sense of it all. He did not chase beauty. He caught it in transit.

One image shows a model caught mid turn as her wings are adjusted, her expression calm but searching. Another shows a cluster of robes draped across chairs, abandoned for the moment the show began. There is light spilling from the dressing stations, coloring the air in warmth. Every photograph feels like it belongs to both the preparation and the performance.

Luong’s backstage perspective does not glorify the spectacle. It translates it. His work feels human, almost cinematic, because it captures what the runway cannot: the breath before the walk, the collaboration behind the confidence, the quiet before the applause.

In the saturated visual world of Victoria’s Secret, Huy Luong found stillness. Through his lens, backstage was not an afterthought. It was the heartbeat of the show.