Despite admitting she cringes at some of her Nineties and Noughties fashion choices, Posh has always been a style icon.
VICTORIA Beckham is proof that style, like wisdom, only gets better with age.
As she turns 50 next week, the Spice Girls singer, turned fashion designer, has finally found a winning formula for the latter.
But it has not always been smooth sailing for Posh Spice, with one of the most talked about wardrobes in the world.
She once admitted her Nineties outfits should have got her arrested by the fashion police.
As the Spice Girls broke on to the music scene in 1996, Victoria had one mission — to become famous.
Tottering on stage in black high heels and little black dresses became her signature look.
In the group’s 1997 film Spice World it even became a gag that she would either wear “the little Gucci dress, the little Gucci dress or the little Gucci dress”.
In the late Nineties and early Noughties, alongside her footballer husband David, Posh and Becks’ fashion choices were sometimes regarded as comical.
Their matching purple wedding reception outfits in 1999, and his-and-hers head-to-toe leather at a party the same year, made them a laughing stock in the snooty fashion world.
‘Just so wrong’
Vic later admitted of the pair’s leather ensemble: “I will never, ever, ever, ever be allowed to forget that look.
“The irony is that we wore full-on leather Gucci . . . to a Versace event for Donatella. Which in itself was just so wrong.”
Reflecting on the coordinating trainers and tracksuit bottoms they wore when out walking their Rottweilers once, she added: “If I dressed like that now I’d be locked away by the fashion police.”
Posh’s brief solo singing career, with a self-titled album in 2001, led to a change of style.
Her slashed key-hole tops, bandannas and lip ring were headline news.
The mid-Noughties saw Wag culture reach its peak, delivering some of the worst fashion clangers — and Victoria led the way with her heavy fake tan, hair extensions and vests, while the likes of Cheryl Tweedy and Coleen Rooney emulated her look.
Things changed again when the Beckhams moved Stateside in 2007 as former Manchester United and England golden boy David joined US club LA Galaxy.
