One of the most successful series on Netflix this week is Victoria Beckham, a docuseries about the fashion designer who was part of one of the most popular musical groups of the 1990s, the Spice Girls. Over the decades, her marriage to David Beckham has guaranteed her media continuity, much sought after by photographers. In 2023, the documentary series Beckham Netflix's series, which focused primarily on the footballer's life, showed that the scenes in which Victoria participated went viral and were used to promote the production. Her frivolity mixed with a kind of false innocence caused a subtle comedy in the marriage. poshTwo years later, the platform decided to fully capitalize on the supporting character by making him the protagonist. These three episodes no longer address her husband's infidelities, as he had already served his penance with the previous production. The series explores her personal and professional journey, alternating with the countdown to her new collection's run at Paris Fashion Week.
Victoria Beckham It can provoke curiosity and perplexity, rejection and indulgence. Despite the extraordinary privileges that have accompanied her over the last thirty years of her life, the designer has the gift of always presenting herself as a victim: of the cultural industry, of media fervor, of the judgments of the press, and of the fashion world's elite. She was the one looked down upon at school, the one who didn't fit in on stage, the perpetually misunderstood wife, the scrutinized figure and the one never sufficiently appreciated. She always maintains a narrative linked to lament. She is not entirely wrong as a character located at the epicenter of a sexist and unscrupulous entertainment business.
Directed by Nadia Hallgren, this documentary miniseries also plays, like so many others, with exploiting the intimacy of great stars, seeking the fissures that humanize them. After decades trying to promote an idea of maximum perfection, especially through their bodies, it is now necessary to explore their vulnerability in order to justify itself. Victoria Beckham's body transforms from a mannequin into a space of inner conflict. It also becomes a battleground against herself: a space of control and deprivation of facial expressions, emotions, food intake, insecurities, and tears. A person always governed by codes: family, aesthetics, elegance, cosmetics, public image, and fashion. The main protagonist is a marble sculpture, both hard and fragile, attempting to reveal itself and contain itself. in turn, in the midst of a machinery that he feels is hostile to him.
Victoria Beckham contributes to this narrative of self-construction and culminates this great ongoing work of sculpting her identity. The miniseries is an indisputable propaganda and marketing artifact in which her body remains the hallmark.
