For his first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show , executive creative director Adam Selman is swinging big. On today’s episode of The Run-Through With Vogue podcast , the designer — who is best known for making the sheer Swarovski-crystal-encrusted gown that Rihanna wore to the 2014 CFDA Awards and later serving as the chief design officer of Savage x Fenty — said the highly anticipated show on October 15 will be big, powerful, playful, and grounded in storytelling. He took Victoria’s Secret’s rich 50-year history of influence and innovation into account and approached the job as if he were designing for a true maison.

“I’m really taking this as any other designer would do: pull from some of the archives without being weighted by it,” Selman told podcast host Nicole Phelps.

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