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If Fisher Steven’s Beckham was an archaeological excavation of the footballer’s illustrious and tumultuous career, Victoria Beckham on Netflix brings a never-before-seen glimpse at the fashion mogul he chose as his life partner.

From the Spice Girl era to the becoming of a fashion messiah, the three-part documentary on Netflix explores more than the audience can think of. The docu-series serves as a one-way pass into the glamorous world of Victoria Beckham’s becoming, opening up right before her spring 2025 show, which took place outside Chateau de Bagatelle.

We catch up with the fashion mogul amidst the busy hours of her getting her fashion ducks in a row ahead of the big event. But the Netflix documentary moves back and forth, exploring bits and pieces of her childhood, pop star era, marriage, and fashion dominance.

While Victoria Beckham is itself a revelation of a kind, for those yet to tune into it, here are five core insights to get you there.

Five important takeaways from Victoria Beckham on Netflix

Victoria Beckham loved dancing as a kid

Victoria Beckham doesn’t just peel back on her legacy evolution in the fashion industry. It transports the audience back to her childhood with quite a few throwback pictures where she is seen sporting elaborate costumes while singing and dancing. As revealed by the fashion powerhouse, she was a performer from the very beginning, who dreamt of doing musical theatre before she became a pop star. “I used to love to dance,” she says as the clip of her tap-dancing to ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’ appears on the screen.

“I was a performer. I knew every single lyric of every single song in the West End,” she continues. For Beckham, childhood wasn’t really easy; she repeatedly failed to “fit in.” But being on stage was sort of the only escape she had, as in that moment, she could be anything but her. “I didn’t really want to be me, I didn’t like me. I desperately wanted to be liked,” she says.

She almost had Donatella Versace angered at her first Versace show

Victoria Beckham on Netflix is not without its star-studded cameos. But the most unforgettable one has to be Donatella Versace, who met the Spice Girls star back in 1997. It turns out that her daughter was a big fan of the Spice Girls, and Beckham was no less thrilled at receiving the Versace invitation. The brand had arranged a private jet to fly her to Milan, offering her a free rein at the Versace store. She recalled selecting a black leather dress.

“I remember trying on the dress, looking in the mirror, and saying, ‘I really like the dress, but how about let’s tighten it here, shorten it here, take off the sleeves.’ Basically, I redesigned the whole dress. I really can’t believe I did that. So rude,” she recounts. Meanwhile, Donatella Versace chimes in, “You shouldn’t do it. I thought, ‘How does she dare?’ Then, I realised it was better on her, the way she did it. She knows her body.”

She flipped the script on a Mark Jacobs campaign

Victoria Beckham recalls the commotion that followed when she attended a Mark Jacobs show in 2007. Jacobs sent her a letter later, offering her a part of his campaign, to which she willingly participated. But when the photos came out, she was “horrified” to say the least. “It was very much poking fun at me, and that’s when I realised I was a laughing stock,” she says. Although it took time for the industry to value her fashion visions, she always knew she had it in her DNA. So, when a decade later, she felt her fashion instincts for her brand were going off track, she chose to reclaim the concept.

But this time, for her own brand. She rang up Juergen Teller, who clicked her photographs for the Marc Jacobs campaign years ago. “When he shot me 10 years ago, the laugh was on me. But I wanted to reclaim that image for myself, Beckham adds.

The need to “kill the WAG”

There were many important figures in Victoria Beckham’s rise in the fashion world. One of them is designer Roland Mouret, who knew it early on that she had it in herself to make it big. When they connected, he humbled her with as much warmth and toughness as it required. He said, “The enemy was fear and lack of self-esteem. To make the dream become reality, we had to kill the WAG.” And that’s exactly what she did.

The David Belhassan partnership that became a saviour for Victoria Beckham

For Victoria Beckham, earning visibility in the fashion industry was no cakewalk. But she isn’t shy to look back or mention them in her documentary. At one point in time, she felt cornered as the losses were too much to ignore. Although David Beckham’s financial investment was crucial for her brand, with the losses racking up to millions, she had to turn to an “outside investment.”

Just in time, David Belhassen entered the scene. Initially, he was unwilling to invest. But Belhassen’s wife made him reconsider when she sported a one-of-a-kind dress from Victoria Beckham on a Saturday night out.