Transcript: Style Live with Victoria Beckham

Transcript: Style Live with Victoria Beckham

MS. GIVHAN: Hi. Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large here at The Post, and I’m really delighted to have with me today Victoria Beckham. She’s the creative director and founder of the brand that bears her name.

MS. BECKHAM: Thank you so much, Robin.

MS. GIVHAN: Before we begin, I just want to acknowledge that you were scheduled to be here live, in person, for the conversation, but due to sensitivities with current events and an abundance of caution, we decided to take the conversation virtual. But we are still very happy to be able to chat with you.

MS. BECKHAM: Well, thank you for having me.

MS. GIVHAN: I wanted to start with probably what a lot of people have seen recently. You’ve been very busy. There was the Paris fashion show, there was the launch of the fragrances, and there was also the Netflix documentary, “Beckham.” And I would like to point out that there were two Beckhams in that documentary, and we didn’t get to find out how your sort of origin story for your brand really began. So I thought we’d start there, and I was hoping you could just kind of put into context in that timeline that the docuseries covered when you decided to launch the brand. Where were you? What was going on in your life?

MS. BECKHAM: Well, thank you, Robin. I actually launched my brand in 2008, but I was working on collections before that time. But 2008 was the first time that I actually showed what I’d been working on. I’m doing small presentations in New York and narrating through the collections, and so that was 2008. And since then, the brand has grown. You know, I started really focusing on dresses. The first ever collection really was just ten dresses, and pretty soon after that, we started creating a full wardrobe that then went on to include handbags, shoes, sunglasses, and then most recently–well, four years ago, launching my own beauty brand and very recently continuing and launching three fragrances.

MS. GIVHAN: Well, you know, I…

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