Victoria Beckham Spring/ Summer 2012

A bell gonged as guests shuffled around before Victoria Beckham's show, and the crowd hushed to observe a moment of silence in honor of the September 11 victims. Fashion marches relentlessly on. VB was still Posh Spice ten years ago; her rapidly expanding clothing and accessory brand not yet in its infancy. Today was her first full-scale runway show, but she's hardly a beginner.

Beckham wasted no time establishing her signature: hourglass dresses as rigorously constructed on the inside as they are streamlined on the outside. Season by season, in perfectionist fashion, she's added new elements: volume, print, embroideries, a bag range, and now, for Spring, a timely new interest in utility and sport.

The stretchy hourglass dresses are still here, still ridiculously sexy, but now they have sturdy, buff-gray nylon straps and D-rings—even the long, evening version. Joining them on the catwalk at the New York Public Library were short, easy shifts, some inset with a horizontal stripe of sheer mesh, worn with what had to be VB's first-ever flat sandal. Has having her fourth baby inspired this more practical bent? Could be: Outerwear, though cut in double-faced satin, was on the boxy side with sporty rolled sleeves and hoods. And soft shoulder bags and oversize totes are now in the mix alongside her signature constructed frame bags. Thanks to www.style.com

Review

For Victoria Beckham, the sportswear trend that has swept the New York season thus far was also an important element in her focused collection. But Beckham grafted her own luxe couture sensibility onto that, crafting a boule shaped anorak out of thickly woven Mikado or translucent gazar silks, for instance, or simulating the perforated, aerating sports mesh that we have been seeing everywhere in chic devore velvet. 

Beckham’s crisply tailored coats and little shift dresses (some slyly spliced with sheer net slithers) in thick bonded jersey had a Mod flavor to them – emphasized by Stephen Jones’ chic little kepi hats, and tailored leather purses (her latest design hangs from a fine chain; you can “play with it like jewelry,” Beckham explains). She kept that sixties vibe but added movement via pleats set at the hipline like high fashion tennis frocks. 
Even those signature hourglass dresses that seem poured over the body sublime had a sportswear touch; they were suspended from straps that looked like rock climbers’ safety harnesses.

Thanks to  www.vougue.com