“I really design what I want. A woman-to-woman collection,” Victoria Beckham noted as she scrolled through how she came up with her resort offering. “As someone who wears a lot of tuxedos – black, white or navy blue – the question became: How do you change that?” One idea, as she shared in her quick, anecdote-filled précis, came directly from revisiting a Jennifer Beals moment in Flash dance. “After my birthday, David and I watched it at home. Of course I loved it Flash dance Growing up, he loved dancing, but he had never seen it. It was that moment when she takes off her husband’s tuxedo jacket in a restaurant and wears a sleeveless shirt underneath.” A version of that shirt – a plastron halter – is worn under the final pantsuit in her lookbook, a secret VB device for looking chic on arrival and partying later.
Her occasional reference to her recent 50th birthday party (with that one-night Spice Girls reunion hosted by her husband) builds on the picture of what’s proving to be a year with much to celebrate for Victoria Beckham. Her brand and beauty business launched in early 2024 and just before her birthday she flew to Spain’s Costa Brava to launch her collaboration with Mango. All in all, a lot of publicity around a style and lifestyle that is all about her, but also about Everywoman.
“Resort is my favorite collection to work on because I like that we have quite a big section that’s about what you’re going to wear in the run-up to Christmas.” Her calibrations of evening and occasionwear are the result of a lot of practical thinking. “It’s the ritual of getting dressed, where you mimic what happens when you turn around to look at yourself in the mirror,” she explained, pointing to the asymmetrically draped two-tone jersey slips. “Or,” she added, “there are still hints of lingerie in there, from the beginning of the dressing.”
It comes across as a good, shoppable balance of tailoring and dresses, somehow 1930s with bias dresses and masculine black tie styles, yet embedded in her knack for dialing back over-the-top formality. For example, she shared how she made a tuxedo silhouette casual by adding a mini B-Frame bag on a chain.
It’s not all evening; the little skirt and oversized sweater looks are pure autobiographical mirrors of VB: 90s chic via English schoolgirl uniform, brought sharply up to date. The pragmatism, pleasure and energy she puts into her work are paying off. A look at its prices is also a good clue as to why the brand is seeing a healthy revival; in contrast, at a time when the cost of luxury fashion has skyrocketed, she has steadily kept her price tags reasonable.
