We all gasped when the gorgeous Miuccia Prada cover dropped earlier this week, and now we’re back with another legend: Victoria Beckham. Our episode yesterday kicked off a short series on the podcast highlighting women we want to wear now—an undertaking that feels particularly pertinent given all the men who have recently been tapped to lead legacy fashion houses. Chloe sat down with Victoria to talk about her brand, her family, and, of course, her Spice Girls legacy. But Victoria also had some queries of her own, namely: “Did Anna vet these questions?” (The answer…no.)
Victoria presented her eponymous label’s first collection in 2008: just 10 dresses, shown at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. At the time, her entrée into design as a major celebrity was met with some skepticism, but as Vogue editor Nicole Phelps wrote in her review, the dresses would “sell not on the power of her name but on the sophistication of their cut and fit.” Looking back, Victoria admitted that she’d been fairly naive about industry then, but she finally felt she had truly made her way when she debuted in Paris in 2022.