“I’m really designing what I desire. A woman-to-woman collection,” Victoria Beckham remarked, as she whipped through how she came up with her resort offering. “As someone who wears a lot of tuxedos—black, white, or navy—it became a question of how do you change that up?” One idea, as she related in her speedy anecdote-peppered précis, came directly from revisiting a Jennifer Beals moment in Flashdance. “After my birthday, David and I were watching it at home. Of course I loved Flashdance growing up, being dance-mad, but he’d never seen it. It was that moment when she takes off her man’s tuxedo jacket in a restaurant, and she’s wearing a sleeveless dress shirt under it.” A version of that shirt—a plastron halter—is worn under the last trouser suit in her lookbook, a secreted VB device for putting in a posh arrival appearance and partying later.
Her incidental reference, there, to her recent 50th birthday bash (with that one-night Spice Girls reunion organized by her husband) builds into the picture of what’s turning out to be a year that holds a lot to celebrate for Victoria Beckham. Her brand, and her beauty enterprise, went into profit early in 2024, and then, hard on the heels of her birthday, she flew to Spain’s
Costa Brava to launch her collaboration with Mango. In all, a lot of publicity around a style and lifestyle which is all about her, but also for Everywoman.
“Resort is my favorite collection to work on, because I love how we have quite a large portion that’s about what you’re going to wear in the lead-up to Christmas.” Her calibrations of evening and occasion-dressing are borne from a lot of practical thinking-through. “It’s the ritual of getting dressed, mimicking what happens when you twist to look at yourself in the mirror,” she explained, pointing to the asymmetrically draped bi-color jersey slip dresses. “Or,” she added “there are hints of lingerie left in, from the early stages of getting dressed.”
It comes across as a good, shoppable balance of tailoring and dresses, somehow 1930s with the bias dresses and masculine black tie tropes, yet embedded with her knack for dialing back over-formality. She pointed out, for example, how she’d casualized a tux silhouette by belting it with a mini B-Frame bag on a chain.
Not all’s evening; the tiny skirt and oversized sweater looks are pure VB autobiographical mirroring: Posh ’90s via English schoolgirl uniform, brought crisply up to date. The pragmatism, fun, and energy she’s putting into her work is paying off. A peek at her prices is also a good clue to why the brand is getting a healthy uplift; in a time when the cost of luxury fashion has skyrocketed, she’s kept her price-tags steadily reasonable by contrast.