‘We had to kill the mocker’: Nine things we learned from Victoria Beckham’s docu-series | fashion
TTwo years after David Beckham and Netflix let us inside their sprawling family home in the Cotswolds, where they gave us a glimpse into everything from his legendary football career to his OCD cleansing rituals, the Beckham family (minus Brooklyn, apart from snapshots of him as a child) are back on our screens. On Thursday, the streaming giant released Victoria Beckham, a three-part series that follows the pop star-turned-fashion designer ahead of her Spring/Summer 25 fashion show at Paris Fashion Week. There are TikTok dances, tears, lots of conversations about clay, and a big discovery that you can read more about here. Now let’s find out nine more things we learned from the show.
They don’t seem to have any cups
Kitchen cupboards are usually filled with an array of questionable new mugs alongside the usual dinnerware, but not at Beckham’s headquarters, it seems. Victoria appears to drink exclusively from drinking glasses, including glass and steel mugs. She also uses a glass straw with a small VB on it – a birthday gift from her parents that her mother, Jackie Adams, reminds her of when Victoria mixes gin and coke for her. The only time we see Victoria sip from a traditional bowl is when she drinks a glass of red wine before the couple heads out to dinner with King Charles. A very confident step when wearing white silk.
David follows instructions by standing on her right side
It’s part of a strategy to make her look less “miserable” when she poses for photographers. The idea came when Victoria realized that David was always standing to her left. “When I smile, I smile from the left because if I smile from the right, I look sick. So I was smiling… but no one could see it.” Maybe this is proof that checking your photos and having multiple mirrors in the house is not great for self-esteem.
It kind of pissed off Donatella Versace
In 1997, Victoria attended her first fashion show when Donatella Versace – whose daughter was at the time obsessed with the Spice Girls – invited her to Milan. After sending a private plane to pick her up, Donatella asked her to visit the store and choose what she wanted to wear to the show. Victoria chose a black leather dress, but on the condition that it be shortened and the sleeves changed. At that time, Donatella says she thought: “How dare she do that!” But after seeing Posh Spice front row at the show, she had to admit: “She knows what works for her body.”
Fashion inscription is a resilient force
For someone who wasn’t “taken seriously in the industry” to begin with, getting Vogue’s Anna Wintour, designers Tom Ford, Donatella Versace, and Roland Mouret, along with photographer Jürgen Teller to sit down and talk about your fashion success, is quite the trump card.
she “She buried her breasts in Baden-Baden”
After relying heavily on her WAG aesthetic (all low-cut tops, tiny hot pants, giant bags and sunglasses) at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Victoria ditched it and her clothes. “purchased breasts” “To become a simpler, more elegant version of myself.”
Victoria bought Buckingham Palace herself
Since Victoria was “richer” than David when they married, she bought them their first home, a sprawling mansion in Hertfordshire. Before moving in, she undertook a £3 million renovation, which included adding a maze, Disney-style cornices and an Audrey Hepburn-style bathroom, leading to the tabloids quickly renaming the house “Buckingham Palace”.
She spent £70,000 on the housePlants
Plus an extra £15,000 for someone to water them once a month. To be honest, we’re more shocked that she loves Monstera.
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Designer Roland Mouret made her “cry a lot.”
The creator of the “Galaxy Dress” guided Victoria as she transformed from pop star to fashion entrepreneur. Upon meeting her, the French designer decided that “we have to kill the Wag.” Note the post-Baden-Baden transformation.
Victoria had no formal training in fashion, so was unable to draw – instead she used to wrap fabric around her body to create the type of dress she wanted to design. Mouret kept making her repeat these exercises because if he wasn’t tough, “Victoria Beckham would walk on me.” Cue multiple tears but ultimately the 10-dress collection she launched during New York Fashion Week in 2008.
David has a “gorgeous” penis.
After the “Islands in the Stream” kitchen dance and the ubiquitous “Be Honest” moment from the early docuseries, there’s plenty of sweet peeing between the couple, who have been married for 26 years. Victoria teases David for wearing fake tan, and he tries to give her some styling tips before the show. She makes fun of him for arriving at parties before the hosts and when a team member asks how big his chicken coop is, without missing a beat Victoria quips: “You should see his penis – it’s amazing.”
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