Victoria Beckham indulged her love of saturated, statement color and her fascination with the elegantly dressed ladies of the 1940s and 1950s for a pre-fall collection that was all about structure and rigor.
“I wanted to celebrate the art of dressing with strong, considered silhouettes,” said Beckham, who has had a busy start to the fall.
She’s marked the 10th anniversary of her Mayfair store with a sleek holiday refurb, courtesy of interior designer Rose Uniacke, and worked with Mytheresa on a capsule collection that debuted in New York last month.
The idea for this latest collection actually came from New York, via the television show “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” a reference to the high-shine socialites whose secrets Truman Capote eventually betrayed in his works of fiction.
Beckham worked the haute style of the socialites’ dress into her pieces.
A pair of high-waisted white trousers had hidden Power Mesh fabric inside the waistline to keep things looking neat, while a sculptural, cranberry-colored coat curved gently around the hips, and a black jacket was adorned with a martingale belt.
Even the denim had rigor. Dark, high-waisted jeans came with a matching, cropped jacket with contrasting stitching. Worn with one of Beckham’s sellout belt styles, there was nothing laid-back about that suit.
Colors were rich and arresting: blue and khaki for a raincoat, hot pink for a pair of fuzzy kitten heels with pointy toes, bright red for a sweater fixed at the neck with a silvery pin, and periwinkle for a ruched jersey dress.
Accessories were inspired by those of the era — diamond heirloom-style jewels were used as pins on sweaters and snoods, or as inspiration for the print on a dress.
Beckham’s loyal customers will certainly have fun channeling their inner Swan, as they glide from late summer into the next fall season.
