Victoria Beckham's transformative silhouettes for Autumn Winter 2024

To dress is to create a form. With anatomy as a framework, we use clothing to shape our bodies, to sculpt our bodies, enhance our physique, and enhance our expression. For the Autumn/Winter 2024-25 collection , Victoria Beckham re-examines the transformative silhouettes at the heart of her brand and abstracts them through the prism of her own creative evolution. While retaining the ease essential to its philosophy, the proposal refines the concept of silhouettes that are complex in their construction but easy to wear in their practice. During this process, a meta-conversation takes place inside the clothes: references to the act of dressing itself, to the environment and to the interior of the wardrobe in which we keep our clothes, as well as the unconscious and gestural way in which we wear them.

Exemplifying a deceptive simplicity, tailoring and outerwear classics are transformed into shapes that design and elevate the language of the body. The shoulders of blazers, jackets and coats extend into sharp lines or widen into nonchalant sloping curves. Trousers take shape through illusory cuts: relaxed, low-crotch climbing pants, made from tailoring fabrics, step up in proportion along the ankle, roll up and elongate the leg; oversized pants in coated cotton or Japanese denim sculpt spectacularly on the lower body; and boxy pants hang elegantly from its belt loops as if attached to the clasps of a garment hanger.

Evoking the mechanics of the wardrobe, the hanger motif is used in the construction of blazers and small duffle coats. The notion also manifests itself in collar-cut sweaters with deconstructed collars that overlap the neckline with the front of the neck and create a sense of hanging trompe l'oeil. The effect inspires knits and dresses cut to twist sensually on the body, like clothes pulled on a hanger. Supported by detachable starched shirt collars and floral-print bracelets, this wardrobe reveals itself in flowing jersey dresses gathered with tangled wire brooches, in the manner of some of Picasso's drawings. Taking inspiration from ideas of suspension, parachute dresses with skirt hems gathered between the ankles create bouncy, billowing volume in movement, while the chain print of one dress comes to life in lightweight metal chains suspended from a skirt and a bustier.

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