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A decade later, though, she returned to the concept. Now a designer in her own right, she found herself losing her way and her own DNA fading from her brand. In an effort to \u201cput Victoria Beckham back into Victoria Beckham\u201d, she called Juergen Teller, who\u2019d photographed her for that Marc Jacobs campaign, and asked him to recreate it for her brand. \u201cWhen he shot me 10 years ago, the laugh was on me. But I wanted to reclaim that image for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crucial to Victoria\u2019s success in fashion was Roland Mouret, a designer whose dresses she loved, who became an important early mentor. \u201cRoland saw something,\u201d Victoria remembers. \u201cWe connected and he believed in me. He was very, very honest and really, really tough.\u201d He told her that \u201cthe enemy was fear and lack of self esteem. To make the dream become reality, we had to kill the WAG\u201d. Victoria complied. \u201cI buried those boobs in Baden-Baden,\u201d she says. \u201cI became a simpler, more elegant version of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the second and third episode, Victoria speaks candidly about the difficulties she faced in the fashion business, as her independent label was scaled up rapidly from intimate presentations to blockbuster shows. She eventually found herself backed into a corner, with losses running up to the millions and David, whose financial input had been essential, unable to keep investing. \u201cThe entire house was crashing down,\u201d she remembers. \u201cI was losing my business. I needed outside investment. I needed someone to help me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Enter: investor David Belhassen. When he looked into the company\u2019s finances he thought, \u201cFrankly, I\u2019d never seen something as hard as this to fix\u201d. Initially, he decided not to come on board. Victoria was devastated. \u201cI felt heartbroken,\u201d she says through tears, in what might be the docuseries\u2019 most emotional moment. \u201cI was desperate.\u201d What changed Belhassen\u2019s mind, was his wife \u2013 when the couple were going out on a Saturday night, she wore a stunning dress from Victoria Beckham. He thought, \u201cWe have to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Belhassen describes tightening the belt on the business \u2013 one of the extravagant expenses that needed to be curtailed involved the \u20ac70,000 being spent on office plants per year, as well as the \u20ac15,000 someone was being paid to water them. \u201cShe told me, \u2018I won\u2019t let you down,\u2019\u201d he says. After she presents the SS25 collection in Victoria Beckham<\/em>\u2019s penultimate sequence, Belhassen declares: \u201cShe never gave up. And finally, it\u2019s working. We turned the business around. But it\u2019s just a drop in the water. There\u2019s such a huge world we haven\u2019t tackled.\u201d<\/p>\n Victoria Beckham is streaming now on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A decade later, though, she returned to the concept. Now a designer in her own right, she found herself losing her way and her own DNA fading from her brand. In an effort to \u201cput Victoria Beckham back into Victoria Beckham\u201d, she called Juergen Teller, who\u2019d photographed her for that Marc Jacobs campaign, and asked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[934,1601,1997,1996,1872],"class_list":{"0":"post-5218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle","8":"tag-beckham","9":"tag-biggest","10":"tag-netflixs","11":"tag-takeaways","12":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegloss.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}