In the months leading up to Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz’s much-dissected nuptials, the mother of the bride contacted Valentino’s Roman atelier with an unconventional request. Claudia Peltz wanted the inside of her daughter’s gown to feature a secret “evil eye” talisman, sewn in blue thread, “for protection”.
It was a superstitious take on the classic wedding tradition for “something blue” – but perhaps the first person to marry into the Beckham clan “needed all the luck she could get”, the Daily Mail’s editor-at-large Alison Boshoff suggests in her new book, Brand Beckham.
