Updated October 20, 2026
The hair was the first thing I checked in the backstage photos: a bleached pixie, cropped close enough that the glitter on her eyelids had nothing to compete with. Iris Law walked the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Sunday, October 18, at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, her second time on the brand’s main runway. She walked for PINK, the brand’s younger line, and the whole show streamed on Victoria’s Secret’s own YouTube channel.
Law is 25, the daughter of Jude Law and the actress and designer Sadie Frost, and the surname is what gets her into the headlines. The work on her own CV is a modelling career that now includes two Victoria’s Secret runways, plus an acting credit in the miniseries Pistol. On Sunday she shared a runway with Gigi Hadid, Adriana Lima and Candice Swanepoel, while Tate McRae, Megan Thee Stallion, Megan Moroney and Katseye were the announced performers.
Backstage: the robe, the pixie, the glitter
WWD’s backstage photographers caught her in the room before the show with Ayen Agany, Honey Ordoñez and Breanna Ivy, all four in matching striped satin robes over what the caption calls bubblegum-colored undergarments. Her own set was a pink bra and briefs under the brand’s pink-and-white striped robe, as HELLO! and Parade describe it, and she posted her own version of the scene with the caption “the girls r in glam.”
The pixie was the bravest beauty decision in that room. On a runway lit for television, a very short bleached cut leaves a makeup artist nowhere to hide, because there is no hair falling around the jaw or the eyes to soften anything. So the team put the shine on the lids and kept the rest quiet, which is how you get a face that reads from the back of a studio without looking painted up close. The glitter lid is the part worth copying for a winter party, with a cream base underneath so it does not migrate into the crease by midnight.
A year after the beanie
Her first walk for the brand, in October 2025, went the other way entirely. In the PINK segment she wore a cropped black slogan T-shirt, boyshorts, striped socks and a pom-pom beanie, the kind of thing you would pull on for a dorm-room Saturday, with no wings or feathers anywhere near it. Before that she had appeared in the brand’s 2023 special, The Tour ’23, which RUSSH lists as her first outing for Victoria’s Secret.
This year the runway look was a printed PINK bra top and matching mini skirt, with a small bag and a stack of bangles, as her own runway photo shows. Going from the beanie to that in twelve months, with the house striped robe backstage, tells you how the brand is using her. A first booking is usually a test of whether a newer face holds the camera. Being handed the house uniform the second time round (the striped robe is about as Victoria’s Secret as a garment gets) suggests the casting team liked what they saw and plans to keep her.
HELLO! also re-ran comments from Law about rehearsal nerves, and they date from that debut: she made them to Extra backstage on October 15, 2025. “I was so nervous yesterday… You know when you’re so nervous that you get, like, sleepy in the rehearsal…? But now I feel great.” She added that she knew a lot of the girls and “everyone was just being super nice and talking about how they feel and everyone’s nervous, but everyone’s excited, so it was just really fun.” A year on, the nerves are the part of that quote I would bet has not changed.
The rest of her week
The runway was the last stop of a busy California stretch. On Saturday night she attended the sixth annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles, and earlier in the week she was at Who What Wear’s 20th anniversary party, according to WWD.
Who What Wear also published a cover interview with her on October 14, and the quotes HELLO! picked from it are more candid than anything said near a runway. “None of my close, close friends who I speak to daily are on social media,” she told the magazine, and she described a panic of feeling that people did not understand her: “It’s very tiring to show that you study and you read and you also have fun and you also like snacks.” Coming from someone who has posted since she was young, and whose Victoria’s Secret booking depends partly on that audience, saying it in a cover interview four days before the show was a candid move.
In September she fronted DKNY’s fall 2026 campaign with her friend Amelia Gray, photographed by Mikael Jansson across New York. “I was excited to team up with Amelia on the DKNY Fall ’26 campaign,” she said in the brand’s announcement.
My take
HELLO! and Parade both put “Jude Law’s lookalike daughter” in the headline, and the photos make that easy. I would watch the brand instead: last October it gave her a beanie and striped socks, this year a printed bra top and skirt on the runway and the pink set and striped robe backstage, and she wore all of it under a bleached pixie that left her face completely exposed under television lights. Putting her under a pom-pom hat for the main-runway debut and then sending her out with a cropped head for the second walk is how a brand builds a model up, and I expect to see her in PINK again in 2027.
Sources
- Victoria’s Secret (official YouTube): The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026, streamed Oct 18, 2026
- WWD: Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026 runway photos (Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, Oct 18, 2026)
- WWD: Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026 backstage beauty
- The Hollywood Reporter: Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026 red carpet and backstage photos
- RUSSH: Every model walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2026
- HELLO! Magazine: Iris Law at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, by Faye James, Oct 19, 2026
- Parade: Jude Law’s lookalike daughter at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, by Megan Johnson, Oct 18, 2026
- Extra: Iris Law backstage at her Victoria’s Secret debut (rehearsal-nerves quotes), Oct 15, 2025
- Iris Law on Instagram (@lirisaw): runway and backstage posts, Oct 18-19, 2026
