Tuesday, February 22, 2011
source: Zimbio & Celebrity-Gossip
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
For her recent morning New York Fashion Week presentation, she wore one of the loose, cashmere cocoon dresses that she said she found intimidating when she was more of a novice.
The swing trapeze dress and a multimetallic honeycomb in a kaftan-like silhouette were also items she added to the collection with a surer hand.
These roomier designs take more work, but they are worth it so women can be fashionable, as well as comfortable, explained Beckham, her hair pulled into a long ponytail.
(She announced last month that she and husband David Beckham are expecting their fourth child.)
“I designed this collection before I knew I was pregnant,” she said with a laugh to the small crowd of editors, retailers and stylists gathered at her favourite Upper East Side mansion runway venue that allows her to individually greet guests.
A red V-neck tunic dress looked the simplest, she said, but “it was a nightmare”.
Using a palette she described as “desert brights”, Beckham offered a teal matte gazar V-neck cocoon that she said was “young red carpet”, but the finale gown in the same colour and fabric was the one to talk about: it had chiffon-covered resin bits arranged in a mosaic pattern that looked like shards of shattered glass around the neckline.
For the first time, Beckham offered coats, including a red raglan-sleeve coat with a buckle at the collar and a super-chic black coat with knife pleats from hip to hem.
She did several dresses with pleats, too, a look she always wanted to wear but couldn’t figure out how to until she started placing them below the hip bone.
The best versions were a saffron-yellow crêpe dress with a halter-neck and the honeycomb gown, also with a halter-neck, that had restrained pleats at the top and fuller ones on the skirt. That look, she said, was her favourite.
Beckham has numbered in order each style she makes. The autumn collection includes look No. 100, which has the more fitted shape with exposed seams and zippers that are her hallmark but adds the wrap shape that she built this season around.
“The 100th dress is a Victoria Beckham silhouette chosen as the perfect representation of everything the collection set out to achieve at the outset,” she said in her notes.
source: SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
Also new for Fall were coats. But whereas elsewhere she was thinking loose and liberating, here she was all rigor and precision. The toppers were cut in structured wool, and their stand-up buckled collars notwithstanding, they were the opposite of tricked-out. Amid all the utilitarian parkas we'll be seeing on selling floors come fall, they'll look practically stately. That's fine with Beckham, for whom the classics have always trumped the trends.
What will she do for an encore next season? Pantsuits, maybe? After this first shot at tailoring, they seem like the next logical step for a designer who, ironically, given her celebrity status, pays closer attention to her clients' real-life needs than many of her peers. It's an approach that continues to pay dividends.
source: Style
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
And on this, her sixth season in business, Mrs Beckham is getting better and better. What started as a capsule collection of dresses that looked like her personal wardrobe, has expanded into something more fully formed. ‘I’ve eased up the corsetry a lot,’ she explained.’ I’ve travelled and loosened up in my own skin. I feel I have evolved as a person and this has evolved as a collection.’
The dresses all start with a very neat shoulder (sans pads, but cut sharply and close to the natural line). And for lovers of the second skin column there are still lots to choose form in the dense jersey rib (‘women love how it holds them in’) that she has made her signature fabric, like her 100th dress with seams circling the body. ‘I started numbering the dresses six seasons ago back when I started and never thought I’d get to this point.’
But more interesting were the easier shapes cut with gentle volume and movement: a cerise swing dress cut above the knee in four meters of heavy wool crepe. A kingfisher blue dress knee length cocoon dress cut in silk gazar. Or the floor length pleated dress with soft draped neckline. 'I love pleats but never knew how to wear them,’ she explained of a dress in saffron wool with drop waist and knife pleated skirt. ‘The pleats were ironed in by hand in the studio.’ She called the colours of ochre, saffron, brick and scarlet, her ‘desert brights’.
She ‘decided to have a go at coats’ for the first time: a simple shape with vertical seams and stand up collar or a drop waisted pleated option were perfect companion pieces for those slim dresses and ladylike bags. The bag collection has expanded to include over the body cashmere duffles and a collaboration with Christian Louboutin has provided some pretty fabulous straight knee high boots.
With Anna Wintour on her front row and a room full of fashion A-listers, Victoria Beckham has become a fully fledged fixture of the NY collections.
Beckham talked about growing in confidence as a woman and as a designer, while at the same time noting the importance of giving her customers what they’ve come to expect. Thus, along with her loosened looks, were new takes on her back-zipped curvy numbers with “traveling seams,” including a version in her best-selling dense rib jersey.
Beckham is answering her customers’ needs in another way as well, with the addition of outerwear, though she’s not falling in with the season’s emerging anorak army. Rather, she took a polished chic approach to chasing the chill, as with a lovely long sand wool coat with belt-buckle collar.
source: WWD
source: Zimbio
Since Victoria actually collaborated with Brian Atwood for the shoe designs and colors for her spring 2011 collection, I thought for sure that she would be doing so again (especially since she always wears the designer's shoes herself). But she surprised me and this time around went back to Christian Louboutin with whom she collaborated on two new boot designs.
The Vicky Botta is a heeled boot that is loose fitting from the ankle up. It is a knee high boot that features a square heel and a round pointed toe. This boot was featured in three different colors (rouge, noir, and taupe) and two materials (leather and suede). 
The Vicky Booty is a ankle boot that has the same toe and heel shape as the Vicky Botta. This adorable booty style also comes in suede and leather and in the three distinct colors.source: CP & Else at La Passion des Louboutin
I want to start off by saying that I absolutely adore Victoria's fall 2011 collection! I think that this season really proved that Victoria is a fashion designer... point blank. Her Spice days have been put completely behind her as she showed that she has evolved and is getting better and better with each passing season.
Some of the elements of the fall 2011 collection that I really liked were...
The ruffled and buckled necklines! We are used to seeing a very structured piece from Victoria and this season she loosened up a bit and experimented with different necklines. For the newest additions... the coats, she added chic buckles at the top which is something we've never seen before. I find them quite alluring and understatedly sexy! The ruffled high necklines were my favorite and a focal point for me. The are so feminine and flirty! Can't wait to see them on VB and her huge celebrity following!
I also loved the pleating very much as it too was brand new! Victoria stated that the pleats were ironed on by hand and this is a huge trend on the runways for fall. I also really liked how she did long and short versions which gives the collection even more of a variety.
And of course, just because I'm a sucker for sparkles, I loved the new embellishments. This season Victoria only embellished one dress with dazzling gems and the result was new and stunning! I also loved the new dotted print as I find it perfect for fall - especially because of the lovely jewel tone colors!
And finally, these are my absolute favorite designs from the fall 2011 collection. I really adored the belted pieces that have a separate feel to them. Another job well done Victoria!
What did you all think of the new collection? I'm dying to here your thoughts!
We got a treat this year and that is the fact that for the first time ever, we got to see the complete runway presentation of one of Victoria's collections! I hope we get a video of each from now on! It was wonderful to finally be able to see a complete presentation!
Enjoy!!
