Reinvention in the music and fashion industries is not only par for the course—it often feels performative. Creators, after all, have to keep putting out new work and, I guess, to our collective shame, they have to keep us interested. Having been in both industries for several decades, Victoria Beckham has pulled off one of fashion’s most seismic transformations.
First introduced to us as Posh Spice—the chic, unsmiling counterpoint to ’90s bubblegum maximalism—she and her bandmates went through the full Simon Fuller (of Pop Idol fame) treatment, being cast as caricatures. For ‘Posh’, this meant designer heels, little black dresses, and a permanent pout.
