Sixteen years in, Victoria Beckham is on her way to becoming a fashion success story, recently reporting a 52 percent uptick In revenue to 89.1 million pounds, powered largely by dresses, belts and denim. While still a small brand, that’s nothing to sneeze at in this environment, and after many years of twists and turns and losses. And the spring 2025 runway collection was another step forward with more focus than ever before.
She is also set to enter a new phase of melding fashion, beauty and celebrity with a Netflix docuseries coming out next September following her journey from Spice Girl to fashion boss. It’s being produced by husband David Beckham’s production company Studio 99, which also produced his “Beckham” documentary.
With the crew in the background filming her every move, naturally, her spring 2025 show was a Hollywood worthy spectacle at the dreamy Château de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, with models walking down a dramatic staircase, her famous family and pals Eva Longoria and Sofia Vergara in the front row, and an afterparty with tequila cocktails scented like her new fragrance.
On the runway, the collection was a drama-filled exploration of silhouette, tailoring and sex appeal “using skin as an accessory,” as she put it during a preview.
She opened with an incredible resin-dipped chiffon bustier freeze-framed like a scarf caught in the wind, over mannish trousers with an asymmetrical exposed waistband, setting up the yin and yang of her sculptural feminine/masculine collection.
The dipped resin technique was applied to spectacular effect to draped chiffon tops and breezy floral chiffon dresses shaped to the busts. And they weren’t just for the runway; Beckham said there will be versions sold in stores. Many of her recent bestsellers have veered more toward tea dress territory, and there were those, too, including one in a deep apple green draped silk worn by Gigi Hadid and available to shop now.
Beckham went all in on assertive tailoring — and it looked good — keeping the throughline of femininity by slashing a pants leg to reveal a hint of skin and a pocket lining, cutting trousers low on the hips and layering a high cut bodysuit underneath, or removing side seams on a white waistcoat and putting the label outside.
Even more revealing were sheer jersey bustiers, minidresses and gowns shaped by S-curve soft wires, and corsetry that made waistbands on skirts and trousers stand away from the body.
She had casual cool covered, too, with a handsome trench coat and pale gray rounded jacket and wide leg jeans with pressed creases, or a pair of apple green rolled waistband trousers with an on-trend burgundy leather blouson.
She also used the romantic backdrop to launch her latest fragrance, Reverie 20:50. Like the others, it’s based on a location and moment in time — a date night with hubby David Beckham in Java.
“We were having dinner with all these rice fields surrounding us. It was very, very romantic. What he’d done as a surprise is had little tea lights lit in all of the rice fields as far as you can see,” she said of the inspiration for the earthy vanilla scent. Aww!
Being followed by the Netflix crew has had her thinking a lot about her love of fashion from an early age, she said of the “intense” filming experience. Her understanding of silhouette, for example, can be traced back to age 13 when she created a trend at school of wearing two socks layered on top of one another “to create the illusion of a longer leg.”
A trendsetter from the start.
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