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Evening Standard
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Victoria Moss

Shirts on the front row and players on the runway – how football fell for fashion

If the Beckham Netflix documentary has taught us anything — aside from Victoria’s laudable commitment against the sport — it’s that fashion and football are a brilliant double act. The beautiful game might have taken Becks out of Leytonstone, but fashion polished his bleached blond locks into a gold mine commodity.

I particularly enjoyed the gentle trolling from Romeo (who had a stint at the Arsenal youth academy) at the series close, wearing a Gunners hoodie to practise penalties. “Take that off,” Becks scoffed. Let’s hope he didn’t spy Mia Regan’s look from Paris Fashion Week; Romeo’s girlfriend propped up the front row in a top from the new Arsenal Women’s away kit, the second drop from Stella McCartney’s Adidas collaboration with the club.

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