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Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch supermodel and actress, and a former Victoria's Secret Angel: she started working for the brand in 2004, became an Angel in 2008 and left the brand in 2015. In 2014 she came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list, after Gisele Bündchen, and in 2013 she appeared in campaigns for Victoria's Secret, L'Oreal, H&M, Tiffany & Co., Miu Miu, Bruno Magli and Emilio Pucci. She has been featured on the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, W, Avantgarde, Dazed & Confused and Numéro. This page links the fashion blog coverage of her style and onward to the Apparel Search fashion models section.
Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch supermodel and actress. She is a former Victoria's Secret Angel. She started working for the brand in 2004, becoming an Angel in 2008 and finally leaving the brand in 2015. In 2013, Kroes appeared in campaigns for Victoria's Secret, L'Oreal, H&M, Tiffany & Co., Miu Miu, Bruno Magli, and Emilio Pucci. In 2014, Kroes came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list (after Gisele Bündchen).
Kroes described herself as a "tomboy" in her youth, although she applied to modeling agency Paparazzi Model Management in the Netherlands when she was older. The agency sent her to New York City, and after being cast a few times by Victoria's Secret, they asked her to try out as an "angel". When Kroes moved to New York from the Netherlands, she had never heard of the brand before. Kroes has been featured on the covers of Time, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Seventeen, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, W, Avantgarde, Dazed & Confused, and Numéro.
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An Angel's Decade and a Top-Earning Career
Doutzen Kroes's Victoria's Secret timeline is the spine of this page: first work for the brand in 2004, Angel status in 2008, departure in 2015. The Angel designation is the commercial peak of lingerie and swim modeling — a small, named group whose members headline the brand's shows and campaigns — and holding it for seven years, within an eleven-year association, marks a career at the industry's commercial center. The Forbes fact confirms the standing in earnings terms: second on the top-earning models list in 2014, behind only Gisele Bündchen. The 2013 campaign list shows the breadth around that center in a single year — Victoria's Secret, L'Oreal, H&M, Tiffany & Co., Miu Miu, Bruno Magli and Emilio Pucci span lingerie, beauty, high street, jewelry and luxury fashion.
The start of the story is deliberately unglamorous in her own telling: a self-described tomboy who applied to a Dutch agency, Paparazzi Model Management, was sent to New York, and was cast by a brand she had never heard of before leaving the Netherlands. That sequence — application rather than discovery mythology — is part of why her page is useful in a fashion directory: it records the agency route into international modeling as an ordinary professional path that happened to lead to the top of the earnings list. Her cover record, from Time and Vogue to Dazed & Confused and Numéro, crosses the commercial and editorial ends of magazine fashion in the same way her campaigns cross market levels.
Following Her Coverage
Her Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts are linked here, with Wikipedia for reference; no official website or IMDb link is listed on this page, although she is described as a supermodel and actress. This page also links onward to the Apparel Search fashion models section for readers following modeling coverage generally. The fashion blog search collects the written posts about what she has been wearing — her personal public style, set against the professional record above. She closes the D index as its supermodel, and the Fashion Blog Celebrities hub opens the full alphabetical guide.
Common Questions
What is Doutzen Kroes' Victoria's Secret history?
She started working for the brand in 2004 and, after being cast a few times, was asked to try out as an Angel. She became an Angel in 2008 and finally left the brand in 2015.
How did Doutzen Kroes start modeling?
She described herself as a tomboy in her youth. When she was older she applied to modeling agency Paparazzi Model Management in the Netherlands; the agency sent her to New York City, where Victoria's Secret cast her — a brand she had never heard of before moving from the Netherlands to New York.
What recognition and campaigns does this page record?
In 2014 Kroes came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list, after Gisele Bündchen. In 2013 she appeared in campaigns for Victoria's Secret, L'Oreal, H&M, Tiffany & Co., Miu Miu, Bruno Magli and Emilio Pucci, and her covers include Time, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, W, Dazed & Confused and Numéro.