Victoria Beckham Launches Dress Collection
Former Spice Girl's Designs are a Big Hit at New York Fashion Week
Sep 18, 2008
Better known for her onstage antics as a former Spice Girl and her DVB label jeans, Victoria Beckham provided a breath of fresh air at the Waldorf Hotel last week when she launched her debut women's fashion collection of stunning, figure-hugging dresses, at New York's Fashion Week for Spring 2009.
Beckham’s dresses are “head and shoulders above her jeanswear,” says the Daily Mail’s Liz Jones, in her article of the same name, 9th September 2008. Beckhams collection includes a range of exclusive, feminine calf-length dresses.
Liz Jones is known by Daily Mail readers for often being critical of Ms Beckham’s style. However, even she was blown away by this British icon’s frocks, saying, whilst reporting on NY Fashion Week, “this collection for spring/summer 2009 is the best I have seen here in New York all week.”
The UK's Guardian newspaper's "Victoria Beckham Impresses on Debut," of 9 September, 2008, quotes buyers and editors reactions to the collection as "beautiful", "classy" and "desirable."
Victoria Beckham's Dresses
The Victoria Beckham label represents her own designs and epitomizes simple, classy chic. They are the sort of figure-hugging dresses that J Lo would wear, but their subtly sexy elegance would also appeal to more conservative, older women> These designs are demure rather than tarty. What makes these dresses so stunning and figure flattering is their conservative hemline length and shaping around the waist, bottom and hips. Their secret is in the interior corsetry, shoulder padding and Grosgrain waistbands, as well as the cut.
Beckham's designs are made for “real women,” available up to a UK size 14. A welcome breath of fresh air in the world of high-fashion, where many creations are designed to best flatter a size zero waif. In recent years Victoria Beckham has been self-critical of her skinny figure and blasted the image skinny models create in encouraging young women to be too thin. She even banned size zero models for her DVB line.
The Victoria Beckham CollectionThe collection consists of 10 dresses made from lightweight wool, silk and organza in a neutral palette of muted colors — ivory, oyster, black, navy and cobalt blue. An unusual (and fetish) feature is that all pieces have a back, full-length gold zip, running from the nape of the neck to behind the knee. The range is not planned to hit stores until around February 2009 and buyers are now clamoring over the rights to sell the new “Victoia Beckham” label. Each dress is expected to retail around £650 (approximately $1300).
This tiny-framed fashionista, famous for owning a huge collection of Hermès Birkin bags, her love of high-end designer labels and every-changing hair styles, has at last made her mark in the fickle world of fashion design, fulfilling a lifetime dream. In contrast to her DVB jeans and fragrances, Beckham’s debut dress collection already has the sweet smell of success. Women will genuinely love them, and so, it seems, do fashion critics.
For details of the launch of Victoria Beckham's exciting Fall 2009 Collection, click here.
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