Victoria Beckham says she might have chosen a different career path if she had known what forging her own fashion house would really be like.
The former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer, 50, admitted that she was “naïve and innocent” when first starting out and that she might not have had the “courage” to try her hand at it now.
Her words come after it was revealed in January that her once-floundering Victoria Beckham brand is finally turning turning a handsome profit 17 years after its launch.
Speaking to actress Nicole Kidman, 57, for the latest edition of Vogue Australia, the mum-of-four and wife of retired footballer David Beckham explained: “It was always my passion to be in fashion and beauty. I’d obviously been in the Spice Girls. I took the plunge, and there was an innocence and naivety.
“If I knew then what I know now, I might not have had the courage to do it, but I didn’t really know anything about the industry. I went into fashion in a very honest, humble way.
“I just wanted to create clothes I couldn’t find myself…And now after 17 years we’re proud to say that fashion in its own right is profitable, and for a ready-to-wear brand and an independent brand to be able to say that is a huge achievement…
“And now we’re building. I spent many years working on the foundations and now I can start to build the house that I always dreamed about.
“We have fashion that’s not just ready-to-wear but we have bags and shoes, we have beauty, which is enormously successful in its own right, and now I have fragrance, which for me is the halo of the brand. Now, that makes us a real house,” she concluded.