After decades of headlines, speculation, and that famously unsmiling façade, Victoria Beckham is finally telling her own story — in style. The new docuseries, directed by Nadia Hallgren (of Becoming, the acclaimed Michelle Obama documentary), traces the highs and lows of Beckham’s life, from her Spice Girls beginnings to nearly two decades of defining her eponymous fashion brand.
Set against the backdrop of her Spring/Summer 2025 Paris show, the film is as much about resilience and reinvention as it is about fashion. Here’s everything we found out.
1. It’s a fashion film — but with real emotion
Far from a glossy highlight reel, the documentary uses the rhythm of Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week preparations as a thread through her personal story. The narrative weaves between the tense beauty of the runway and moments of quiet reflection at home with David — where the film both begins and ends. It’s a portrait of ambition, vulnerability, and enduring partnership.
2. Victoria, it turns out, loves to smile
For years she’s been known for that iconic pout — but in the film, Victoria laughs at her own myth. “I actually hate being a moody cow,” she admits. She talks about a childhood photo of herself grinning: “Don’t be shocked.” Even her famous camera angle gets a mention — she always turns right, she says, “because David’s always on the left” and that’s why it doesn’t look like she smiles.
3. The fashion dream started long before the runway
While her bandmates weren’t into fashion, Victoria reveals she used all the Spice Girls wardrobe budget to shop at Gucci. Fashion was her thing, she says simply. And though Mel B playfully reminds her to “remember where she came from,” the comment doesn’t sit well — a nod to the pop beginnings that still shape her story.
4. She turned early ridicule into artistic power
Her first brush with the fashion world wasn’t all couture glamour. At Versace, she was invited to choose a dress — and ended up remaking it, which wasn’t quite the brief. Later, she appeared in Marc Jacobs’ campaign shot by Juergen Teller, which she found more mocking than flattering. Years later, she revisited that aesthetic — again with Teller — reclaiming the narrative in her own image.
5. No one believed in her label — except Roland Mouret
Launching a fashion brand as a pop star wasn’t taken seriously. People thought it was just another celebrity vanity project. Only designer Roland Mouret believed in her vision. Recognition came slowly: Madonna wore one of her dresses in W magazine, Anna Wintour appeared at her show, and even Tom Ford phoned to ask, “What are you thinking?” That’s when she knew she’d made her point.
6. The Beckhams remain each other’s biggest supporters
Throughout the three episodes, Victoria and David’s partnership anchors the narrative. He invested heavily in her brand during its toughest years, even as losses mounted, until she brought in David Belhassen of NEO Investment Partners to help turn things around. But amid the business talk, it’s their shared humour that steals the scene: in their kitchen, David quips, “What do you call a bear without teeth?” — “A gummy bear,” Victoria replies, smirking. “He thinks that’ll be his moment in the documentary ” – a reference to her Rolls Royce moment in his documentary.
And, in a moment of poetic timing, the Princess of Wales was spotted wearing Victoria Beckham today, on the day the documentary premiered — proof, if any were needed, that the woman once called Posh Spice continues to define British elegance on her own terms. Victoria Beckham is out now on Netflix.