The first grown-up handbag Victoria Beckham purchased was a Fendi Baguette. “I had a few of them back in the ’90s,” the designer told Anders Christian Madsen in a 2022 conversation with Vogue. “But I did a sale years ago where I got rid of everything and donated all the money to the Red Cross.” This was a charitable – and perhaps spiritual – cleanse in which Victoria also parted ways with all the Hervé Léger bandage dresses of her past.
This photo, taken at Marc Jacobs’s spring/summer 2008 presentation, is a pop-cultural time capsule, frozen in an era when Victoria was still getting spray tans and still being referred to as a “WAG”. She of course looks different now – dressing almost exclusively in Balenciaga and Alaïa while presenting her own seasonal collections at Paris Fashion Week – but not even the Red Cross could convince Victoria to abandon the Hermès bags. She was yesterday afternoon photographed leaving Paris with a crocodile Birkin, while husband David followed suit with an enormous Kelly Relax Voyage 50. (Jacob Elordi be damned.)
David – the original metrosexual – has always enjoyed a “manbag”. (See: the mammoth Birkin he transported to the Venice Film Festival in 2006.) And while the Beckhams share a taste in leather goods – and perhaps even the same Hermès sales associate – what’s more notable is the attitude with which their possessions are worn. “Not saved for best,” as Alice Newbold examined here. “But slung over the arm of a businesswoman with four children and a schedule holding each minute to account.” Yes, that includes David, who seems to be experiencing his own “WAG”-dom while Victoria plays in fashion’s major league.
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