The series chronicles the former Spice Girl’s move into fashion while battling both internal and external doubt and pressure in the public eye
Victoria Beckham spent the beginning of her career playing high energy, pop-fueled shows as the Spice Girls‘ own Posh Spice. But as she details in the latest trailer from her upcoming Netflix documentary Victoria Beckham, it was quite disorienting when it all came crashing down. “Performing was my dream,” she says in the clip. “The Spice Girls made me accept who I am — and then all of a sudden, it stopped.”
A quiet life as the trophy on the arm of her husband David Beckham would never had suited her. Beckham wanted more, and she found it, just not in the realm of music. She decided to swap microphones for fashion shows, a move that brought both internal and external doubt to the surface.
“A lot of people didn’t take it seriously,” the designer Tom Ford says in the trailer. Headlines splashed across the screen in the trailer refer to Beckham as a “fashion wannabe” and question whether she actually had anything to do with designing her early dress collections. “Everybody’s warning her, ‘You will not be accepted,’” Eva Longoria adds. Beckham felt counted out before she had a chance to prove herself, saying, “People thought, ‘She was a pop star. She’s married to a footballer. Who does she think she is?’”
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Out Oct. 9, Victoria Beckham finds the singer-turned-designer preparing for a major Paris Fashion Week show launch. She not only wants success for herself and to show dissenters that they were wrong about her, but she also wants her family to see her hard work pay off. “I want my kids and David to be proud of me,” she says. “It’s taken so long to get to this point. I’m not gonna let it slip through my fingers again.”
Victoria Beckham will run as a three-part documentary series and follows the four-part docuseries Beckham, released in 2023.
