Victoria Beckham’s collection is dance of delight despite Kardashian delay

Clothes the designer wore as dance student given a chic glow-up on the catwalk

Everyone knows what Victoria Beckham did before she became a fashion designer. But this season, she has a whole new backstory. “From when I was three years old up until I was in the Spice Girls, I wanted to be a ballet dancer,” she said at a preview of her latest collection in Paris. “One of the things that I find so special about dancers is that even if you are travelling on the tube, you can always spot a ballet dancer – just by her posture and the way she carries herself.”

The Victoria Beckham show, held in an 18th-century Parisian townhouse that was once home to Karl Lagerfeld, was a grand affair. The coming together of two superstar families, the Beckhams and the Kardashians, saw the picturesque left bank streets gridlocked with SUVs and phone-wielding fans.

The Beckhams – along with Anna Wintour and the chic, makeup-free Pamela Anderson who has become a folk hero of this Paris fashion week – were kept waiting for 47 minutes after the scheduled show time for the entrance of Kim Kardashian, in sugar-pink satin, and Kris Jenner. The show began shortly after they took their seats, to a sweetly serene soundtrack of Rose Royce and the Shangri-Las. It closed with a third Kardashian, model Kendall Jenner, incognito in a black trouser suit and sunglasses.

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