Certainly, Beckham has at all times sought inspiration from artwork and structure. “I’ve at all times seen trend as a part of a broader dialog,” the designer says. A decade in the past, she commissioned Iranian-British architect Farshid Moussavi to create her London retailer’s breathtaking inside, set respectfully inside its Georgian framework but a dynamic testomony to the modernity of concrete, hovering ceilings, and show instances impressed by Donald Judd.
“Once I opened on Dover Avenue, I didn’t desire a conventional retail house, I wished someplace you might exhale—someplace that felt as welcoming as a house however may additionally double up as an area by which to showcase and have fun different unbelievable skills,” she says, citing an ongoing partnership with Sotheby’s to curate exhibitions instore that includes seminal modern artists equivalent to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yoshitomo Nara, and George Apartment. It has turn out to be a ardour for each the designer and her husband, former footballer David, after being first launched to gathering by Sir Elton John. “Artwork sharpens my eye and teaches me to see in a different way.”
A trio of night robes on this yr’s fall-winter assortment have been knowledgeable by the Olii works of twentieth century Argentinian artist and sculptor Lucio Fontana (a favourite in Beckham’s personal fashionable artwork assortment). “Transposing his approach of treating canvas as material, the fabric of the robes is ruched round wired holes positioned on the neckline or stomach as if it have been paint, creating an intense and erotic perforated impact,” she explains.
Final winter, Beckham invited the British inside designer Rose Uniacke to reimagine the shop’s interiors to spectacular impact. Towards partitions swathed in a wealthy forest inexperienced (customized coloured in a vegetable-resin paint by Uniacke for the designer), clothes and niknaks jostled alongside extraordinary works like a tapestry woven from stainless-steel by Simone Prouvé, a Nineteenth-century gilded console, and a midcentury Italian walnut desk designed by Gio Ponti. “Rose has a unprecedented eye,” enthuses Beckham. “Her means to steadiness restraint and richness is so uncommon. That deep inexperienced we used felt nearly like a material in itself; it cocooned the items and gave them a brand new vitality. Pairing that with antiques, sculptural furnishings, and layered lighting gave the gathering a extra intimate, storied context.” It was a reminder, Beckham says, that garments don’t dwell in a vacuum. “They arrive to life by way of house, environment, and the people who dwell in them.”
Victoria Beckham’s pre-SS 2026 residency at Centurion New York runs from Could 21 by way of Could 23, 2025. Victoriabeckham.com; americanexpress.com