Victoria Beckham Boutique

[aelmpvw]

has the world gone totally mad? apparently a key ring in the above mentioned shop costs £160 or is it a printing error and there should be a decimal point after the figure 1?

[Caribeing]

Wouldn't even pay £1.60 for it! If the figure is right it is total madness probably only fit on a tiny key!

[naomi24]

I haven't seen it but it's silver - and no doubt beautifully made. I think a lot of people will buy it.

[kvalidir]

I think she dresses well for a lady of her shape, and I imagine, but don't know, that her clothing range will be geared to ladies who wish to emulate that shape, so I don't tend to follow her trends or buy her clothes since I'm more of a Jennifer Lopez shaped person, there will be things which suit me better. Because Posh is considered the epitome of style by some her clothes and accessories will be accordingly priced as she's a very shrewd business woman. A silver keyring for £160 doesn't actually sound that excessive and as Naomi says I'm sure they'll sell in droves. My keys are on a little photo locket I paid £3.99 for though :)

[aelmpvw]

so i'm right then, the world has gone totally mad :-)

[Baldric]

Must be doing something right!

///there is no question that the 40-year-old designer’s creations are in hot demand. Last year the label took £30million in sales///

[Zacs-Master]

If you can afford to shop in her store, £160 for a key ring is just a trinket. It may seem mad but that's capitalism in action.

[Caribeing]

Just Googled it to see what they were like little square shaped with Victoria's picture in it wouldn't you prefer your own or your kids picture on a keyring I wouldn't fancy going around with her picture on my keyring, did see one for £2.49 on EBay!

[ummmm]

Depends what it's made of I suppose.

[Prudie]

Absolutely can't knock her business acumen nor the way she looks after her family however I think her designs are a con and were she not who she is I don't believe the fashion industry would give her so much credit. I could design shapeless tubes for miniscule women as so could all of you. Anyone over a size 10 (and tht's pushing it) would look awful in her stuff.

As for the keyring I bet it sells out.

[Zacs-Master]

Well Prudie, Vogue ran a piece on her new shop so they think she's 'worthy' (unless they were short of column inches).

[joggerjayne]

Watching the mid morning thing on ITV.

They've got that "which is cheap and which is designer" thing on at the mo.

There were two little black dresses. Which was which?

Everyone in the studio, plus me and Olive, said Dress B was the cheap one. The stitching liked cheap, and the buckle on the belt looked tacky. The people in the studio guessed that Dress B was from Primark.

It turned out that the "nice" dress was £30 ...

And the "cheap looking Primark" dress was £500 from Victoria Beckham.

So, there it is. Splash out on the Victoria Beckham Collection, if you want To look like you shop at Primark.

Money can buy bling. It can't buy good taste. VB only has bling. I think the tackiest thing I can think of is the horrendous big gold badge that was on the back pocket of VB jeans.

[Zacs-Master]

Tacky and horrendous are very 'in' at the mo JJ. Bling is still King.

[joggerjayne]

True, Zacs.

VB has a big market. It's the "women whose friends will be impressed by the very fact that I've spent a lot of money".

"Bit I need a big, lairy label so that my friends can see how much I've been spending".

If Nokia started charging £800 for their phones, the same women would probably bin their iPhones and buy the "I've just got the latest Nokia - it cost £800".

Still, hey ho ... fools and their money!

[Zacs-Master]

I agree completely. There's a trend amongst young men to leave the sleeve label on. Well I think it's a trend, either that or they're too thick to realise it should be clipped off.

[Prudie]

Well Zacs, there is no doubt that the fashion world promote her, never suggested they didn't

[joggerjayne]

LOL Zacs, yes!

And don't you just want to nudge them, and say "Er, excuse me, but ..."

[Zacs-Master]

Erm, OK Prudie it was your 'I don't believe the fashion industry would give her so much credit' comment which inferred the opposite.

JJ- you do but you'd probably get punched.

[Prudie]

No they wouldn't if she weren't already famous is what I said which implicitly infers they do - only because who she is and not what she produces!

[Caribeing]

I don't particularly want to wear something with someone else's name sprawled over it, its ok for the label to be discreet you are just a walking advert for them, I see women wearing Dolce and Gabbana glasses with the name on each leg and I find them unattractive and distracting!

[joggerjayne]

Do we want to have the "what is fashion" debate?

If something is fashionable, it's just widely popular. Like Primark, or M&S.

If something appears on the catwalk at Milan, and the fashion Press say ... this is next season's fashion ... but not many people start wearing it ... you could hardly say it was "fashionable".

So, is fashion what the most people are wearing? or what the show promoters are telling us we "should" be wearing?

Logically, the more "exclusive" something is, the less "fashionable" it is.