Dolce and Gabbana’s barbed attack on Victoria Beckham was a stab in the very slender back of their friend and former muse. But then the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Italian fashion are known for their studded jeans and citrusy perfumes, not their diplomacy.
“For us, she don’t make like a fashion designer. She became one after many, many, many different things”, Stefano Gabbana exclaimed at an event in London before Domenico Dolce relegated her to high street status (yuck!) in a way that was not very dolce: “Victoria Beckham, Zara, H&M.”
Beckham did indeed spend the nineties and earlier part of this century trotting between the realms of pop stardom and being a stripy-haired footballer’s wife, but she has worked hard to ensure those “many, many, many different things” are forgotten now that she has become a designer of High Fashion.
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