Famous Spice Girl in the 90s, fashion designer and businesswoman today, Victoria Beckham opens up about the eventful journey of a girl who “desperately wanted to be loved” in a Netflix documentary broadcast from Thursday.
The world premiere of this three-part series, directed by American Nadia Hallgren – director of a noted documentary on Michelle Obama in 2020 – was screened on Wednesday evening in London.
In this documentary, simply titled “Victoria Beckham”, the former Spice Girl, known for her closed face and generally perceived as cold and distant, talks about her journey and “the ups and downs that shaped her”, she summarizes on Instagram.
“People thought I was a cow who never smiles. But… I smile. Don’t be shocked!”, she says with humor in the official trailer for the documentary.
The 51-year-old businesswoman describes herself as a “clumsy little girl” who “desperately wanted to be loved”, and recounts her difficult entry, after the end of the Spice Girls, into the world of fashion.
“People thought: she’s a pop star, she married a footballer, who does she think she is?” says this mother of four children, wife of the no less famous football player David Beckham, and today a recognized stylist at the head of an empire worth several tens of millions of euros.
However, she does not hide the difficulties encountered by her business. “We had losses of several millions,” she said, claiming to have turned things around. “The company had its difficulties, but the problems are resolved now. It took time”, but “we restructured the brand, and the time has come today to tell my story”, she adds.
Fashion high priestess Anna Wintour shares in the documentary her initial skepticism when Victoria Beckham launched her brand. “I thought it was probably a hobby. I didn’t believe it.” “Victoria proved us wrong,” recognizes the former director of Vogue USA, who admits to having snubbed the designer’s first shows.
Other emblematic fashion figures, Tom Ford and Donatella Versace, testify in the film produced by Studio 99, David Beckham’s company.
The series is broadcast two years after a documentary on Netflix dedicated to David Beckham, which broke audience records in Great Britain, according to the platform.
