Victoria Beckham, the 52-year-old former Spice Girls member turned fashion designer, finds it challenging to unplug from her thriving fashion and beauty business during family vacations. She often steps away from her husband David Beckham and their four children to handle work calls and emails in secret.
Building a Fashion Empire
Beckham launched her namesake label in 2008, debuting a collection of 10 dresses in New York. Committed to establishing it as a serious venture beyond a celebrity side project, she worked closely with her team to develop a signature, refined style.
She shared: “I’m the kind of person that will be on holiday, and I’ll go to the bathroom and sort of hide and make calls and send emails and be working so that my family don’t know, because I can’t switch off. This isn’t just a job.”
Financial Support and Turnaround
David Beckham invested approximately $30 million into the company through his DB Ventures to help sustain operations. Victoria emphasized their partnership, stating: “We share everything, and so we were both supporting the business really at a time where financially we weren’t really in a position to do that.”
The brand faced about $68 million in debt just over five years ago after 14 years of losses. It achieved profitability in 2022, driven largely by its makeup line. Victoria ed pride in this milestone: “At a time when we’re reading so much about how fashion is really struggling, the huge houses are really struggling, to be an independent brand, be profitable, fashion in its own right—clothing is selling and we are profitable independent of beauty—is something that I’m so proud of.”
Family Dynamics and Recent Absences
The Beckham children—Brooklyn, Cruz, Romeo, and Harper—previously joined their father in front-row seats at Victoria’s fashion shows to show support. However, during Paris Fashion Week in March, Brooklyn, 27, and his wife Nicola Peltz-Beckham were notably absent.
Two months earlier, Brooklyn posted on Instagram about a family rift, claiming his parents maintained a staged image of unity for business purposes. He wrote: “The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into. My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first.”
