Simply Abu Dhabi Magazine XXIII

1 6 6 S I M P LY A B U DH A B I Autumn/Winter 2016 O f her latest autumn/winter 2016 collection Victoria Beckham said: “This collection is a statement of the continuing evolution of my personal style and design ethos. I set out to refine key wardrobe pieces in new proportions developed from my signature silhouettes, techniques and fabrications.” Her brand began some fifteen seasons ago with a lineup of ten dresses – and it has come a long way since then with a new 2,200sq ft store having opened in the heart of Hong Kong in March of this year. Backstage before her show inNew York, she said: “It’s just what I want to wear now but in a fresh way.” Judging by her latest collection, what Beckham wants to wear now are corsets as daywear, checks with intentionally unfinished threads and oversized coats designed to shut out the wind, if not the world. Beckham has taken her signature corset dresses fromnight to day by de-boning them and making them in softer fabrics. Wool bodices were worn with midi-length skirts, accompanied by flat, pointed, buckled shoes. She said she had wanted the collection to recall where she started from as a designer, those ten corset dresses which formed the pillars of a fashion business that turned over £34 million last year. Back then, in 2008, the