Mrs. Beckham Markets to Men

 

Our favorite skinny pouty former pop star, and current “fashion designer” (note the quotation marks) has decided to hit up the male market; selling them $300 pieces of denim.

“I’ve used the best Japanese denim, and I think I’ve created a fit that is very flattering and very comfortable,” said Beckham, who is creative director of the dVb brand. “I’m a complete control freak and I want everything to be perfect. I’m not doing a Britney Spears and just putting my name on something and saying, ‘Sell this perfume.’ This is a real passion of mine. People think all I do is go shopping like a miserable cow, but, in actual fact, I work bloody hard.”

The dude modelling the jeans may resemble David, but alas, it’s just a look alike. Personally, I’m not sure I like Mrs. Beckhams take on mens jeans, they’re very American Eagle to me, however, how original a design can jeans be?

 Enjoy the article, below.

NEW YORK — Victoria Beckham despises skinny jeans on men. 

“I think guys should wear jeans big and baggy, with a big pair of boots or flip-flops—exactly how you see David when he’s out in his jeans and T-shirt,” she advised on a phone call from her L.A. home last week, referencing her husband, soccer superstar David Beckham. “Do not pull them up tight and have your bulge showing. Let it hang!” 

The former Spice Girl’s fecund fashion tips came as she readies the launch of a men’s jeans range, which will hit stores this August. Branded under her dVb label, the jeans are the latest step in Beckham’s budding fashion career, which began last year with the launch of women’s jeans, eyewear, and his-and-her fragrances. 

“These are not skinny jeans. They are what I call proper men’s jeans,” said Beckham of her foray into the men’s market. “If you are a man that likes really skinny jeans, very fashiony, this isn’t really the line for you. I didn’t want anything too tight around the crotch. That really repulses me. It might be fashionable, but you are not going to get that from dVb.” 

Beckham’s jeans are produced in partnership with Western Glove Works, the Winnipeg, Canada–based company that also markets the Silver Jeans and 1921 denim brands. The first delivery has been tightly edited and includes a boot fit available in five washes—such as a dark resin wash, a vintage stain wash and a light gray wash—and a boot fit with a back flap pocket, in a vintage stone-bleach wash. A later holiday delivery will expand the fit offerings to a straight leg and will also include vintage-wash T-shirts. 

The jeans, sourced in Asia and Morocco, will retail from $220 to $285. Design details include an aged leather waistband patch with the dVb logo, antique copper finish hardware, and purple pocket bags.
Beckham and Western Glove Works are targeting top-tier specialty retailers for the men’s jeans, which are sold out of the Denim Area showrooms in New York and L.A. The women’s denim collection is currently carried in about 600 doors globally, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Maxfield, Kitson, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and Colette. 

Victoria Beckham: UK Vogue April 2008

 

The Posh one graces UK’s Vogue April 2008 cover, and while this isn’t a USVogue cover, it’s still a pretty big deal in the fashion world. It means there is enough interest in her to sell the Vogue name, and push magazines; considering she used to be the most hated woman in Britain, this says alot for her status in the UK now. Who knew “Coming to America” would mean she would dominate the UK? (erm, fashion-wise, that is).

Now, let’s break down the cover. I am disappointed in the shot they used, and you would think VB would be as well. (“All this thinness, and you would THINK Vogue of all publications would appreciate it!”)  It’s a “fashion magazine” yet, we see no fashion? No clothing? To me, it looks more like a diamond advert, or possibly an advertisement for “CoverGirl Lipslicks”.  A Vogue cover shot? Really?

**UPDATE** Here is a shot from the innards of the mag. Urgh. I am losing hope. The dress… the hair… the outdated long painted nails? This is not“May-ja!”.

The full editorial can be found here. The interview is an awesome read, balancing the perfect combination of professional, and personal tidbits… but, I’m still not 100% sold on the photos. They don’t quite hit the vibe I think the mag was going for.

Behind the scenes:

The Oscars: Party Crashers

Every year, we see a smattering of celebrities on the Academy Award Red Carpet that just don’t belong there. One can assume they were obviously invited right? I mean just because you have a recognizable face/name, does that give you a free pass to crash the Oscar party? Below, are some possible Party Crashers.

Miley Cyrus (formerly, Destiny Hope. Yes, I’m serious)

I’m sorry… do you have any business being at the Oscars? Are you nominated? Will you be in the next 5-10 years? Will you EVER be nominated for anything other then a Nickelodeon award? No? Get off the carpet.

Heidi Klum (MY pick for Best Dressed)

Love  you, love the dress… love that you found an excuse to wear two pairs of false eyelashes, but why were you there? Is it for some Project Runway challenge we aren’t aware of?

Jessica Alba

Last time I checked, you weren’t nominated for “Into the Blue“, nor would anyone consider you an “actress”.

VB for MJ: New Shots of the Campaign

Ya, I get the whole “awkward and edgy minus the glamour”. She looks like she just walked out of a tanning bed, and into that…. Yawn. Next please.

VB for Marc Jacobs: Gorgosity

 

So, when I saw the first advert… I was appalled. How dare this reformed cokehead shove my precious VB into a paper bag?… it gave new meaning to the term “Paper Bag Princess”. Now, I see it was a fake out, and he has released these lovely shots of the self appointed Fashion Icon. Loves.

 Read the interview/article below (taken from Womens Wear Daily):

Few campaigns have been as anticipated this season as Marc Jacobs’ starring Victoria Beckham. The first image, which broke in the February issue of W, partially let the cat out of the bag — it shows a giant Marc Jacobs shopping bag with Beckham’s legs peeking out, with no signs of her much-photographed face.

“There was a lot of discussion about Victoria being in our ads and tons of blogs on the Internet about ‘Should she or shouldn’t she?,’ ‘What’s going on with Marc Jacobs?,’ and ‘Has he lost his mind?’,” Jacobs explained. “We thought the funniest thing would be to show the Victoria Beckham ads that don’t show Victoria Beckham, but just to see those legs coming out of the bag.”

Those who think they were duped after all that buzz shouldn’t worry: there are many more images on their way, in February issues of Vogue and Interview.

In the Juergen Teller photos slated to appear in fashion books over the next few months, Beckham is popping her head out of the shopping bag, stepping out of a gift box, or simply posing with her best signature pout.

“The images are humorous and ironic,” Beckham said. “You can’t be afraid to experiment with fashion, especially when working with Marc and Juergen — you have to push the envelope and show a different side.

“Marc is a genius,” she added. “I completely trusted his vision and the opportunity to work with Juergen again after so many years was a privilege.”

Jacobs recalled his first meeting with Posh — a fashion designer herself — in her hotel room at the Ritz in Paris. “I told her, ‘People will think it’s an odd choice for me to have made, and people will think it’s odd for you to do. I mean, you’re not really my girl,’ although I never think that I have one,” he said.

“And I said, ‘I like the idea of you being this product, and you being this product that Marc Jacobs producing, like a doll or something,” he added. “I explained it to Juergen and he made the big shopping bag and a big box and had Victoria dressed in our clothes.”

And Jacobs couldn’t care less that his muse just topped Mr. Blackwell’s worst-dressed list.

“Mr. Blackwell to me is this fictitious thing,” he said. “I know there is a Mr. Blackwell, but it means absolutely nothing to me. It’s like saying, ‘What do you think of Santa Claus’ list? I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was a little kid. The idea of best-dressed and worst-dressed is so subjective. To me, the best-dressed people are the ones happiest with the way they look and how much they enjoy getting dressed. I am sure there are people on that list that have appalling taste, but it doesn’t matter if it makes them happy.”

Plus, he added, “Getting attention for being well-dressed or poorly dressed is great, because it is attention.”

As for Beckham, she was hard-pressed to pick a favorite image from the campaign.

“Truth be told, I love them all,” she said. “If I have to pick favorites, it’s the package series: me coming out of the box in the gray knit dress shot with the hat, as well as the image of the oversize shopping bag. Certainly, if you can’t get locked inside a Marc Jacobs store, then trapped inside a Marc bag has got to be the next best thing.”

FERGIE: Fug On the Cover

A) How OLD is that picture?

B) How MUCH do they hate her?

C) Going down on him could give me WHAT?

All that sex-related rumor-mongering aside (apparently, in addition to giving us cancer, our boyfriends are all tracking us on some creepy website. Is one of the suggested 10 Ways to Feel More Confident Naked, “don’t read any other article in this magazine”?), Cosmo’s agenda this month is clearly squashing Miss Fergie Ferg’s stylistic upswing like a nasty little silverfish.

This picture doesn’t look remotely like her, AND she’s been dressed like a cashier at Forever XII, but without the benefit of getting fifteen percent off clothes that are already essentially free. Look, I know old Fergs is busy calling all the people who made fun of her for peeing herself and for the meth thing and cackling about her impending nuptials to Josh “Smokin’” Duhamel  and all the mad piles of cash she made this year and how good her legs are (I’m sure my phone will ring eventually), but once she’s done with that, maybe she should call her lawyer and see if she can sue for this sort of thing. It’s certainly caused ME some emotional distress.

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VB: Elle Cover Girl January 2008

Here is a huge scoop for ya’llz… pics and an excerpt from VB’s interview with Elle magazine.

Click here for the video of the shoot. Nice to see she does have SOME unflattering angles. Phew!

P.S: Those silver shoes are so subtle!

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With a head for business, a bod for sin, and a swank sense of style, Victoria Beckham is America’s poshest import. PLUS: Exclusive video and behind-the-scenes photos from our cover

By Holly Millea
Photographed by Gilles Bensimon
Styled by Joe Zee
Sneaking into Los Angeles in disguise under the cover of darkness would not exactly be Victoria Beckham’s style. She’s more the Cleopatra type, arriving on a gilded barge with purple sails, rowed by maids dressed as sea nymphs. Having already been there, done that, she opted for the twenty-first-century equivalent-a reality show, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America. In case you missed it, Victoria Beckham came to America.

The Spice Girl known as Posh disembarked picture-perfect from the plane at LAX on July 13, her famously unsmiling self groomed to the nines, nary a blond hair out of place, wearing an Azzedine Alaïa black dress, mile-high heels, and humongous black sunglasses, with an Hermès Birkin bag on one arm and her grinning soccer star husband on the other. What doesn’t come naturally to his missus comes naturally to David Beckham, though it could be argued his smile was due to his having signed a $32.5 million, five-year contract with the L.A. Galaxy, a deal that also gives him the chance to earn in excess of $200 million in ticket and jersey sales. Paparazzi royalty, the pair were greeted by more than 100 reporters and photographers, rousing fanfare, camera flashes, and warm, welcoming shouts-out: a V-day parade, or in their case, a dVb-day parade.

Next stop? Beverly Hills.

ON HER DESIGN CAREER:
“Some of the best, coolest stores are taking on dVb,” Beckham says proudly. “A year ago, they would have laughed. Maxfield, Fred Segal, Collette, Harvey Nichols…I’ve spent years banging those bloody doors down. There are so many-and I hate the word-celebrities doing clothing lines and fragrances, and most of them have nothing to do with it.”

ON CRUEL CHILDREN IN HER PRE-POSH YOUTH:
Let’s go back. There’s someone you should meet on the playground at the Church of England school. See that chubby, pimply kid in the duffle coat with the hood cinched up against the cold and flying debris? That’s Victoria Adams, loser, loner, and- unbeknownst to the classmates pelting her with stones-future Spice Girl. “They were literally picking things up out of the puddles and throwing them at me,” Beckham says, cringing. “And I just stood there, on my own. No one was with me. I didn’t have any friends. People would push me around, say they were going to beat me up after school, chase me. It was miserable, my whole schooling, miserable. I tried to be friends with people, but I didn’t fit in. So I kept myself to myself.”

ON HER TALENT:
“It became very obvious from the start,” Beckham continues, “that I was never going to be the best singer or the best dancer or the best actress. I was never a ‘natural.’ ” She thinks about this. “You know, I’ve never been that good at anything, to be completely honest.”

ON MEETING HER HUSBAND, DAVID:
Meeting David was “completely love at first sight,” Beckham says. “I remember it so clearly.” The Spice Girls were at their zenith when she flew with Fuller to a Manchester United match. David had yet to wow the world with his way of bending the ball. But he wowed her. She gave him her phone number on her airline ticket stub. “And he told me he went home and wrote the number on so many other things in case he lost it,” she says. “We found the ticket the other day!” They dated for months under the radar. “We drove around in his car and would sit in car parks and talk for hours and hours. We didn’t need to go out for meals. We didn’t need to go out for drinks. We just wanted to be together and get to know each other.”

ON HER LIFESTYLE:
“I work seven days a week. And I so love what I’m doing. I could go shopping all day, which is what a lot of people think that I do. That’s their perception-that I’m a miserable bitch and go shopping all day and boss David about.”

ON HER PUBLIC IMAGE:
Twenty-four hours later, it’s been decided. Two Batmans, a vampire, and a Victoria Beckham will be trick-or-treating in their Beverly Hills neighborhood. “The boys had great fun in the costume shop,” Beckham says. “Someone told me I’m going to feature big this year with the drag queens.” She loves this. “I’m so camp! I’m such a gay man trying to get out. I don’t give a shit what anybody thinks.”