Every Woman Wants A Nice, Round, Curvy Bottom, Right?

Victoria Beckham knows her way around a good dress - as seen at that recent family wedding. Now, she's back with an affordable new collection (and it's sexy)

- Jess Cartner-Morley

It is a sunny spring day in her London office, and Victoria Beckham is holding her immaculately manicured hands in front of her, gesturing as if she were stroking and squeezing a football. Or perhaps a giant peach.

“Every woman wants a nice, round, curvy bottom, right?” she says. “For that, you need a really tight-knit that nips you in at the waist and holds you in all the right places. You need fully fashioned details, considered and perfectly placed to create a really flattering silhouette. That’s how you make what I call the ultimate sucky-sucky dress.”

The more official name for the “sucky-sucky dresses” which are inspiring Victoria Beckham to caress an imaginary derriere for my benefit is VB Body, a just-launched line of jersey dresses and separates that are taking the designer back to her bodycon roots. After a decade of pussy-bow blouses and wide-legged tailored trousers, of midi-length dresses and oversized tailoring knits, Beckham is once again embracing the sultry date night looks with which she first won over a sceptical fashion industry when she pitched up in a hotel room during New York fashion week with a clothes rail of va-va voom dresses, back in 2008.

Fast-forward to Miami in the spring of 2021. Escaping Britain’s never-ending lockdowns, the Beckhams are hanging out en famille in the city where David Beckham co-owns the Inter Miami, football team. “There are a lot of really curvy women in Miami, and they really own it, you know?” recalls Beckham. “They walk along Miami beach with not a lot of clothes on, and they look fantastic. They show their bodies off with such confidence. I found both their attitude and their style really liberating. And as a mother, I loved the fact that Harper was around women who were really celebrating their curves and enjoying how they look.”