Victoria Beckham
Full Name: Victoria Caroline Beckham
AKA: Posh Spice
Birthdate: April 17, 1974
Birthplace: Harlow, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Occupation: Businesswoman, Fashion Designer, Model, and Singer
Profile: Best known for being one of the founding members of The Spice Girls and her marriage to David Beckham.
Website: http://victoriabeckham.com/
Number of Quotes: 148
After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That
makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't
want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Don't play football in the house.
Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women,
I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so
everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!
Everything that I design I would wear myself.
Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
Fashion stole my smile! I've created this person.
Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for
Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
I am a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
I believe in creative visualization.
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
I can't concentrate in flats.
Reflecting her preference for high heels, often cited in fashion interviews.
I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.
I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
I don't have any issues with my age.
I don't have time to be tired.
From a Red Magazine interview on balancing her career and family.
I don't have to work; I need to work.
I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
I don't like to over-accessorize. I like to keep it simple.
A fashion philosophy shared in various style features.
I don't want to look like everyone else.
On her unique style, as mentioned in Elle Magazine.
I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the
correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers
everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and
entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.
I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.
I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally,
and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.
I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the
person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.
I looooove Miss Piggy.
I love America. It's such a positive country.
I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me
what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
I see a dermatologist in L.A. called Dr. Harold Lancer, who is incredible. I've known him for years - he sorted my skin out.
I swear they're real!
I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is
definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the
clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled
up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of
surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's
no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
I'm a working mother, just trying to juggle everything like everyone else.
From a parenting magazine interview about motherhood.
I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people,
but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.
I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young
women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.
I'm more of a picker than an eater.
Discussing her diet habits in Vogue.
I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
I'm not a designer. I'm a stylist.
Commenting on her fashion journey in a Telegraph interview.
I'm not a pop star. I'm not a model. I'm not a conventional celebrity. But I think that's why people relate to me.
From a Glamour interview on her public persona.
I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
I'm not the most talented Spice Girl, but I definitely work the hardest.
A self-reflective quote from her autobiography.
I'm still me even after all that's happened.
I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get
too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If
there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very
glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it.
It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got
to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing.
People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a
parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm
taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
I've only ever tried to be me.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it
at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want
people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
It's not healthy to be jealous.
Less is more.
My aim is to create the perfect dress!
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
My children are my priority and always have been.
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on
yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very
fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.
My style is quite minimal. I don't like too much fuss.
Highlighted in Harper's Bazaar as part of her design ethos.
Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and
we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working
women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
People have always had an opinion about me and David. They didn't think we'd last.
On her marriage to David Beckham, from a BBC interview.
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am
now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing.
Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident - the clothes are sexy and flattering. I've said right from the
beginning, it's very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.
Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not
that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
Strong women, that's who I really respect.
The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.
The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black
Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.
The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and
actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big
grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an
outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I
actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and
likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better
myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I
looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
We're very, very working class.
...
OK, in the Eighties, my dad had a Rolls-Royce.
What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm
the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I
could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for
someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.
When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.
You have to dress for your body shape. You have to know what suits you.
Fashion advice shared in a Harper's Bazaar feature.
You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me,
because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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