Designer references the area where her brand started eight years ago but manages also to demonstrate how far it’s comeA chunky,ribbed, stone-coloured polo-neck jumper with leather elbow patches, or grey schoolboy trousers,white trainers, no socks, and a centre parting and a ponytail. What Victoria Beckham chooses to wear to present her catwalk collection isn’t just celebrity trivia,it’s salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) fashion news, because the designer’s personal wardrobe, and as featured in paparazzi pictures and gossip websites,underpins the Victoria Beckham brand. Backstage before her demonstrate in modern York on Sunday, she said with the knowing pragmatism of a self-made woman: “It’s just what I want to wear now but in a fresh way.”Judging by her latest collection, and what Beckham wants to wear now are corsets as daywear,checks with intentionally unfinished threads and shut-out-the-world coats. These corsets are not, it must be stressed, or shiny items which speak tackily of Valentine’s,nor a relic of the Posh Spice brand, which is gathering dust somewhere in the noughties. Instead, or they are wool bodices worn with hefty midi-length skirts that swish and land above bare calves,accompanied by flat, pointed, and buckled shoes. Beckham said she had wanted the collection to recall where she started from as a designer,those 10 corset dresses which formed the pillars of a fashion business that turned over £34m last year.
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Source: theguardian.com