The Beckham family is nothing if not well-connected to a vast number of people, and those connections were out in force in support of fashion-maven and family matriarch Victoria’s spring-summer ’24 show on September 29 in Paris, as the world’s most unfettered fashion week marched on to its finale. Held in a grand chandelier-bedecked salon in a former Karl Lagerfeld townhouse, the Beckham show, according to Mrs. Beckham, was themed around her unrealized desire to be a ballet dancer, and in fact some of the looks seemed to be those of ballet dancers between rehearsals, padding through London and New York in oversize sweaters and some sturdy wellies.
But that was just what Mrs. Beckham chose to show down the parquet alley cut the length of the room between the front rows. Her highly curated collection of clients and industry contacts were not the least of the story, and as ever included a strong showing by the Beckham clan, as pictured above with Vogue editrix-on-two-continents Anna Wintour, second left, and Kim Kardashian, far left, whose sister was marching in the show. Pictured right in a cozy family array are family patriarch David Beckham and the children, daughter Harper, son Cruz in full-denim-and-Chuck-Taylor leisurewear, his newish sister-in-law Nicola Peltz, and in a kitchen-ready white tee, budding chef and big bro Brooklyn Beckham.
Fresh from hiring Lionel Messi, Inter Miami’s triumphant co-owner David swerved off the crisp onfield team blazers he sports at DRV PNK stadium and opted for a breezy white-sox-with-“business”-sandals footwear joust. Seasonally questionable, but perhaps it was a warm day, or maybe he was just missing the beach in Miami. On the bright side, the counterintuitive footwear move, especially in a mansion formerly belonging to Lagerfeld, does bring a bracing intellectual whiff of Einstein-in-retirement-in-New Jersey. Whereas Beckham usually lends the impression that you might have no trouble beating him at chess, the shoe broadcasts the notion that the man could now actually put up a sturdy fight at the board. Could that be intentional? Hard to say with a fashion plate such as Mr. Beckham, and it’s not even known whether he plays, but the shoe definitely adds to his gravitas.
Proving her political and Continental reach, Mrs. Beckham’s show drew former Finnish prime minister and current Tony Blair Institute Fellow Sanna Marin, pictured here on the grand stair of the townhouse, an architectural feature that Maestro Lagerfeld would have insisted on to provide the grandest possible entrance impressions for his own parties. Ms. Marin remains a Social Democratic leader in her country, and continues to be an outspoken opponent of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As prime minister in 2022, and highly mindful of her country’s 830-mile-long border through the taiga with Russia, Ms. Marin was, immediately post-invasion, instrumental in moving Finland into NATO by April 2023.
Elegant, big-think Conde Nast man Edward Enninful edited British Vogue for six most eventful years before moving earlier this year to a new zen-like corporate post. Son of a Ghanaian Army major, the family moved to London after Ghana’s 1985 coup, where Mr. Enninful attended Goldsmiths at the University of London and became, at 18, the fashion director at the influential i-D. He went on to posts at W magazine, Italian and American Vogue, as well as styling major runway shows. The man exudes a broad sort of professional durability and the industry awaits his next move for Conde Nast. A grand get for Mrs. Beckham’s show.
Canadian-American actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson is fifty-six and, this Paris fashion week, has been fearlessly stripping back her look. It’s a fine and bold move, full of confidence. Five husbands on, the woman knows who she is.
Lady Mary Charteris Furze is the daughter of James Charteris, the 13th Earl of Weymss, originally a Scottish peer, and Catherine Guinness. She’s also the keyboardist and vocalist for the rock group founded by her husband Robertson Furze, The Big Pink. Lady Mary comes by her fashion chops naturally: Her maternal aunt is ultra-British fashion plate Daphne Guinness.
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