Victoria Beckham shows at New York Fashion Week
2010.09.13
Yesterday, Victoria Beckham showed her Spring/Summer Ready-to-wear 2011 collection at New York fashion week. Speaking to Vogue UK, Victoria explained why she chose New York Fashion week to show her line:
“I LOVE New York, and I live in America now; this is my home,” – so said Victoria Beckham when we asked her why she shows in NYC as opposed to London, Milan or Paris. “Well, this is closest to my home,” said the LA resident with a laugh.
The collection did have an Upper East Side feel to it and there were some classic “Victoria Beckham” silhouettes in the collection – fitted, body conscious dresses designed to show off a woman’s femininity. You can easily imagine Mrs. Beckham being snapped in most of this collection.
“So there were exposed zippers tracing the spine and delicate seams highlighting the small of the back or the curve of the torso and abdomen to subtly sexy effect, done in luscious shades of Cadillac (aka, blush) pink, mandarin orange and a great holographic silver lame.”
But there were also a few surprises; living in LA has obviously had a knock on affect to Mrs Beckham’s design aesthetic. Victoria showed a gorgeous, loose fitting, purple silk shirt dress which tied loosely in the front. This dress looked both effortless and stylish. I would definitely like to see more of this in future collections. She also played tentatively with volume and shapes, giving a little nod to the 1960s.
“Beckham also channelled the Sixties in a suite of body skimming shift dresses, and paid homage to the classic fit-and-flare silhouette in several very pretty cocktail frocks.”
All in all, a very successful, inoffensive and well thought out ready-to-wear collection.
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