{"id":23058,"date":"2022-05-19T03:01:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=213899"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:48:17","slug":"victoria-beckham-grazia-interview","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/victoria-beckham-grazia-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham: “I Want To Feel Sexy Again”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. SLIP DRESS, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. BANGLE, SAINT LAURENT, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is a sunny spring day in her London office, and Victoria Beckham is holding her immaculately manicured hands in front of her, gesturing as if she were stroking and squeezing a football. Or perhaps a giant peach.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery woman wants a nice, round, curvy bottom, right?\u201d she says. \u201cFor that, you need a really tight knit that nips you in at the waist and holds you in all the right places. You need fully fashioned details, considered and perfectly placed to create a really flattering silhouette. That\u2019s how you make what I call the ultimate sucky-sucky dress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. TOP, VB BODY, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. SILK DRESS, RICHARD QUINN, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The more official name for the \u201csucky-sucky dresses\u201d which are inspiring Victoria Beckham to caress an imaginary derriere for my benefit is VB Body, a just-launched line of jersey dresses and separates which are taking the designer back to her bodycon roots. After a decade of pussy-bow blouses and wide-legged tailored trousers, of midi-length dresses and oversized tailoring knits, Beckham is once again embracing the sultry date-night looks with which she first won over a sceptical fashion industry when she pitched up in a hotel room during New York fashion week with a clothes rail of va-va voom dresses, back in 2008.<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. SLIP DRESS, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fast-forward to Miami in the spring of 2021. Escaping Britain\u2019s never-ending lockdowns, the Beckhams are hanging out en famille in the city where David Beckham co-owns the Inter Miami football team. \u201cThere are a lot of really curvy women in Miami, and they really own it, you know?\u201d recalls Beckham. \u201cThey walk along Miami beach with not<\/em>\u00a0a lot of clothes on, and they look fantastic. They show their bodies off with such confidence. I found both their attitude and their style really liberating. And as a mother, I loved the fact that Harper was around women who were really celebrating their curves and enjoying how they look.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. CARDIGAN, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>. SKIRT, VB BODY, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. SHOES, MANOLO BLAHNIK, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an old-fashioned attitude, wanting to be really thin,\u201d says Beckham today. \u201cI think women today want to look healthy, and curvy. They want to have some boobs – and a bum.\u201d On her ring finger, a diamond the size of a Jelly Baby catches the light as she squeezes her imaginary peach for emphasis. \u201cThe curvier you are, the better my VB Body dresses look.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. COAT, GUCCI, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>. POLONECK, COMING SOON<\/strong><\/a>, LEGGINGS, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>, VB BODY. SHOES, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dressed all in black, with thigh-high Balenciaga stiletto stocking boots under a long split skirt and silk blouse from her own collection, she appears as slender as ever. When I point this out, she shrugs. \u201cIt\u2019s not about being a certain size. It\u2019s about knowing who you are and being happy with who you are. I have found my own balance between wanting to have fun and being disciplined about eating healthily and working out. When you\u2019re younger you fight against that balance, but through being older I\u2019ve reached a place where I know what that balance looks like. I just know what works for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. LATEX BUNNY EARS, ATUSKO KUDO, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. CARDIGAN, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>. BRA, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>, BRIEFS, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>, WHAT KATIE DID. LACE SHORTS, FOUND AND VISION, AVAILABLE TO RENT<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But she also wants \u201cas good a bottom as I can get\u201d – to which end, she\u2019s been doing a lot<\/em> of squats every morning. After years of doing Tracey Anderson\u2019s method \u201cand tons of cardio\u201d she has switched up her fitness regime to focus on lifting heavy weights five or six days a week, with David and their personal trainer. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a bit scared of weights, but it turns out I love them. I\u2019ve even got those special gloves to wear! It\u2019s good to switch things up and keep your body guessing. I\u2019ve got so much more muscle tone now, she says.\u201d What\u2019s David Beckham like as a workout buddy? \u201cHilarious,\u201d she says. \u201cI mean, obviously he\u2019s amazing in the gym, but in our sessions he\u2019s always the one who procrastinates.\u201d<\/p>\n

VB Body will be a \u2018permanent capsule\u2019 collection to sit alongside the fashion-led seasonal Victoria Beckham ready-to-wear collections. Sizes range from a UK 6 to 18; a colour palette has been chosen to work across a range of skin tones, and price points start at \u00a390. On repeat in Beckham\u2019s own wardrobe right now is a one-shoulder dress in sunset orange, and black leggings. \u201cBut I want this to be inclusive of body shape, of skin colour – and of budget,\u201d Beckham says. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. LATEX BUNNY EARS, ATUSKO KUDO, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. CARDIGAN, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>. BRA, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>, BRIEFS, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>, WHAT KATIE DID. LACE SHORTS, FOUND AND VISION, AVAILABLE TO RENT<\/strong><\/a>. SHOES, SAINT LAURENT, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Except that the secret sauce of the Victoria Beckham brand, as the designer knows very well, is that it is actually always<\/em> about her. From Spice Girl to fashion mogul, from being a Wembley Stadium WAG alongside Coleen, Cheryl and co to today\u2019s place in fashion\u2019s front row, from half of Nineties London\u2019s hottest couple to the matriarch of a 21st century transatlantic dynasty, Beckham has always given her public seriously compelling storylines. Which brings us to how she pivoted from floaty dresses to tight ones, before plot-twisting back. \u201cFor quite a few years, the more time I spent working in fashion,\u201d she says, \u201cthe more clothes I wore and I ended up buried under all these \u2018fashion\u2019 layers,\u201d she says laughing. \u201cSo last year when I was in Miami and starting to go out again post-Covid, I wanted a change. I wanted to feel sexy again.\u201d Taking inspiration from her collection of vintage Azzedine Alaia dresses, she set her factories the challenge of revisiting the form fitting silhouette with which she first made her name, but this time in knit. \u201cI love how Azzedine\u2019s dresses made me feel. His designs really stand the test of time, because the shapes are simple but the technical execution is perfect.\u201d (That perfect cropped black cardigan that made repeat appearances on the recent family holiday on the Beckham\u2019s yacht, Seven? Vintage Azzedine.) \u201cThat\u2019s what I want VB Body to be: dresses that you wear time and time again, because the silhouette is timeless and makes you feel great.\u201d And yes, as it happens, David is a big fan of the new look. \u201cMuch as I do dress for myself, I also love the fact that he [David] loves me in these dresses. Men love to see a bit of shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. TSHIRT, COWBOYS OF HABIT, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. SKIRT, VICTORIA BECKHAM, COMING SOON<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But for Victoria\u2019s most high-profile appearance of 2022, there was not a sucky-sucky dress to be seen. For her eldest son Brooklyn\u2019s Palm Beach wedding last month, she and her newly appointed design director Lara Barrio created a floor-length slip dress in liquid-effect silk, trimmed with hand-cut French lace. \u201cIt took me quite a while to figure out what I wanted to wear,\u201d she says of her mother-of-the-groom outfit. \u201cThe day wasn\u2019t about me, it was about Brooklyn and Nicola. So I wanted to look appropriate, and really to be comfortable and to feel like myself.\u201d Harper, whose \u201cangelic, sweet and simple\u201d bridesmaid dress was Nicola\u2019s vision, loved her role supporting her beloved big brother \u201cand the whole day, and being able to hang out in Florida with her cousins. They had a wonderful time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big deal, your child getting married,\u201d says Beckham. \u201cI was very emotional. David\u2019s speech was beautiful.\u201d Marc Anthony, a multi-Grammy award winning singer, close friend of the Beckham family and Cruz\u2019s godfather, sang four songs, while Fat Tony got the after-party going. \u201cMarc Anthony and Fat Tony did an amazing job too \u2013 they always do. It seems like yesterday that David was holding Brooklyn in his little purple cowboy hat and purple outfit at our wedding – and now our baby is married.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This summer will be Victoria and David\u2019s 23rd wedding anniversary. \u201cAnd they said it wouldn\u2019t last! From the minute we got married and here we are about to celebrate 23 years,\u201d she laughs. The secret, she says, is \u201cthat we have so much respect for each other. David is an incredible dad, and husband, and he\u2019s very supportive of my work. We are really good partners.\u201d Still, she won\u2019t be jumping in to offer advice to the newlyweds. \u201cClaudia and Nelson [Peltz] have also been married a long time, so Brooklyn and Nicola have both seen that growing up. All of us are there to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in London, Victoria has been back to the office every day, working alongside Barrio. \u201cShe has impeccable taste. We are very aligned in our aesthetic, and she brings a great energy and experience. The team love having her here.\u201d The label, which is yet to turn a profit, had found a growth trajectory in 2019 just before the pandemic set it back again. \u201cI dress women to go out, to travel, to go out to work – so Covid made us rethink our strategy,\u201d says Victoria. \u201cThe business isn\u2019t in a position to do anything huge this year, but I am hoping there will be a presentation or a small show in September.\u201d In a blow to London fashion week, she isn\u2019t committing to keeping her show in the city where she has been on schedule since 2018. \u201cWe are looking at different options at the moment,\u201d is all she will say. London, New York, Paris\u2026.Miami? \u201cIt won\u2019t be Miami. But we are still working on the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VICTORIA BECKHAM FOR GRAZIA MAGAZINE. PHOTOGRAPHY BOO GEORGE. BULLET BRA, WHAT KATIE DID, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. SKIRT, VB BODY, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a>. SHOES, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, SHOP NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Victoria\u2019s phone rings, and Romeo\u2019s voice comes down the line from Miami. (\u201cHi mum! It\u2019s me!\u201d) After a quick chat she blows him a kiss and promises to call back when we\u2019re done. \u201cI miss him so much,\u201d she sighs. \u201cDavid and I have gone from having four kids at home with us, to having one and a half. Brooklyn and Nicola are going to be living between LA and Palm Beach, Romeo\u2019s living in Miami, and Cruz is in-between home and boarding school.\u201d Only Harper, who turns 11 this summer and will start secondary school in September, is still home full time. \u201cWe all love being in Miami. And my beauty team, which is a super important part of my business, is based in New York so I go there a lot too. But London is where I come to the office every day and where Harper goes to school. This year is a new chapter for my brand, and for our family – but London is still home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Words: Jess Cartner-Morley
\n<\/span>Photographer: Boo George
\n<\/span>Stylist:\u00a0Luke\u00a0Day
\n<\/span>Photographer Assistants: David Mannion, Jake Milsom, Sebastian Mccluskey
\n<\/span>Digital Tech: Bror Ivefeldt
\n<\/span>Stylist Assistants: Poppy Norton, Remy Farrell
\n<\/span>Hair: James Rowe at Bryant Artists
\n<\/span>Makeup: Valeria Ferreira at The Wall Group using Victoria Beckham Beauty
\n<\/span>Nails: Sharon Baker
\n<\/span>Creative Director: Caz Roberts
\n<\/span>Shoot Producer: Nathan Higham\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

TOP BANNER IMAGE: CARDIGAN, VICTORIA BECKHAM, SHOP SIMILAR<\/strong><\/a>. BRA, FOUND AND VISION, AVAILABLE TO RENT<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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