The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2020 - Issue 27

bite fashion showed she had been listening to her customers who asked for separates and suits. “I wanted to take my aesthetic and find a new way of working it,” she said before the show at New York Fashion Week in September 2012. Using solid colours, her collection modelled dresses in georgette, chiffon, and lace, as well as silk blouses, midi-length skirts, a white button-down shirt worn with a sunset orange A-line mini skirt, and high-waisted stovepipe skinny trousers. In 2015, the designer showed her first pre-collection, Resort 2016 to the press, although it was her fourth. “I feel like I know my customer now, what she wants from me,” Victoria explained her decision to show this particular one. This collec- tion presented jeans made from premium Japanese raw denim, boxy shirts with sequins, straight-leg trousers, an asymmetrical draped dress, and a cape-coat hy- brid buttoned diagonally up one shoulder as well as cocktail dresses, outwear, and knits. The Fall 2018 show was held at the James Burden Mansion on East 91st Street in New York in February 2018. The collection focused on dresses and suits with the waist on some of the garments emphasised with strappy belts. There were silk dresses with asymmetrical pleats or printed on faux fur motif, suits in mostly shades of military drab, oversized white and tan trousers with wide waistbands, and bright red numbers that gave light to the collection. The totes carried by some of the models were also oversized. For her 10th anniversary Spring 2019 RTW, Victoria held her celebrations at a gallery next door to her Dover Street store in London with iconic models Stella Tennant, Tasha Tilberg, Aymeline Valade, Riane Van Rompaey and Edie Campbell walking her collection. Taking the era of the ‘90s, layering was evidence in dresses worn over trousers such as an orange dress with slim crepe trousers. The other looks included tailored suit jackets and tunics, handkerchief-point knit dresses, and a lace shirt. Victoria brought a sense of colour to her Fall 2019 collection in London start- ing with the opening white windowpane-checked skirt suit styled with a red blouse and scarlet stretch-leather spike-heeled boots. The vibrant red was present throughout the collection in blouses, dresses, trousers, and shoes. Other apparels presented in the collection were ‘70s flares, bourgeois chain prints, pencil skirts, argyle sweaters, and big pointed shirt collars. The Spring 2020 RTW brought forth the power women in a series of tailored suits and ‘70s flow in the waist-free silk ankle-length dresses that will have gentlemen in the boardroom making way for their female counterparts. The collection in a palette of vibrant purple, leaf green, lemon, cinnamon, and pale beige floated down the runway in the most sophisticated way. A complete outfit of a chocolate brown polo neck, beige shirt and trousers, and a checked brown jacket was one of the highlights of the show. As one of the few celebrities that have launched brands and continued to sell well after the initial hype has died down, Victoria has expanded her fashionable reach season after season. Gone are the fitted body-con dresses and high heels, and in its place is a range of looser, more modern silhouettes. At Selfridges, separates and knitwear are particularly popular while at Net-a-Porter, consumers favour Victo- ria Beckham’s cashmere roll-neck sweaters and dresses. We look forward to more ready-to-wear and resort collections from Victoria Beckham, including the Autumn/Winter 2020 collection that was shown in Lon- don during fashion week in February 2020 co ming out later this year. www.victoriabeckham.com