I try to re-iterate, throughout fashion month, that my catwalk reviews are quite selective. I tend to choose only the designers that I think are important, and the ones that are quite well known. If not, catwalk reviews would be a full time job, and I have quite a lot of other things to do, including being pregnant again (woohoo, there’s my big news. Due in Jan.) Anyway, Victoria Beckham is an exception to this “rule,” as her consistently rubbish collections are of great interest to me. First of all, it makes me surprisingly sad that the industry I was once proud to be part of is, takes her seriously, (and I have to look every season to see if I have missed something.) Secondly, I love making fun of her (did you hear she got publicly cheated on, again? And wow, was she ridiculously bad at the Olympics closing ceremonies.)
Anyway, this season Beckham decided to stray away from the one, single tight silhouette she has been producing since day one, and she tried some new things. Those new things were a bit of Dries Van Noten, a bit of Narciso Rodriguez, and some other ideas stolen from well-known, REAL designers. Sure, lots of people copy, but the problem here is that her brand has no personality. She did tight dresses, now she is trying to be edgier, and it is not working. While I must applaud her for moving on from simply copying Roland Mouret, this show was an experimental collection where her design team tried copying four or five other designers, and put them all onto one catwalk. We’ll see which style works out best for them at sales, and I am sure next season, it will be that same style the whole way through.
I love…
the shape of that bra top. But can Victoria wear something like that, what with her weird fake boobs and all?
I loathe…
when Victoria Beckham forgets she is not a designer, and tries to design a silhouette (instead of just making everything tight.) That’s when you end up with unflattering sack outfits like this.
Narciso Rodriguez on the Victoria Beckhma catwalk. I guess she got tired of copying Roland Mouret.
attempts at being edgy. This might work on another designer’s catwalk, but not if you are a WAG, then it is counterfeit fashion.
that even when she tries to do something “new,” she still resorts to that SAME TIGHT DRESS.
All images from Vogue.com.
