Are we closer to knowing the real Victoria Beckham?
Released in October 2025, Victoria Beckham is a three-part documentary that acts as a follow-up to Beckham (2023), a documentary on her famous footballer husband, also housed on Netflix.
Read our full review of Victoria Beckham on Netflix below.
This documentary follows the British personality from her rise to popularity as a Spice Girl and her subsequent journey as a wife, a mother, and most importantly, a fashion designer achieving a milestone, staging her first ever show at Paris Fashion Week. Even as the documentary goes back in time, there is a blatant push to position Beckham as a force in capital F fashion with insert shots to the present day, where she is working hard on set, in the office, or backstage with her team. The product placement for her eponymous beauty brand is similarly unsubtle.
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It is difficult to view the documentary as Victoria Beckham’s ‘coming out’ as a fashion designer without any cynicism towards the lucrative Beckham Brand. After all, the Beckhams–both the power couple and the family unit–have become a household name. Like the Kardashians or the Hadids, they have built a modern day empire that runs on name recognition and reputation.
The Beckhams in the front row of Victoria Beckham’s Spring/Summer 2026 show (Image: Netflix)
We are made to believe that she is drawing back the curtain, revealing the true artist’s spirit behind the artifice of pop stardom and WAG-hood. Even fashion powerhouses, such as Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, and Donatella Versace, are roped into vouching for her. Crucially, Roland Mouret clears the air after decades of speculation that Victoria Beckham was merely slapping her name on his designs.
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The documentary is successful in eliciting sympathy for Beckham. One doesn’t have to be a fashion insider to know that it is exceedingly difficult and expensive to last in this cutthroat industry, especially as long as Beckham has. Despite the heavy-handed insistence by her husband, her family, and her fashion peers, it’s not hard to believe that Beckham is ambitious and tenacious.
However, it all slowly fades as we hear about the sheer amount of money pumped into the brand to keep it afloat, first by David Beckham and later, by NEO Investment Partners’s David Belhassen, the man who stepped in to save Victoria Beckham’s fashion line from bankruptcy.
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When Belhassen opens up about how he went against his team’s advice to invest, detailing the scale of inefficiency and waste Beckham was operating on, it is almost impossible to ignore the myriad of young talent who are not afforded the many chances that Beckham has enjoyed.
The myth of fashion meritocracy, one that has been pushed in recent times in conjunction with the rise of social media and rapid globalisation, cracks.
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What could have saved the documentary? Perhaps Victoria Beckham’s vibrant personality, quick-witted humour and dry self-awareness, which we have seen in glimpses over the years, from her viral moments on Beckham (2023) to her now-iconic TV special, Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (2007). Instead, the documentary is overly sanitised. The focus is on confessions of open secrets and earnest conversations between husband and wife. The question lingers: is this documentary a truthful portrayal of Victoria Beckham, the artist, or a business endeavour to sell Victoria Beckham, the beauty and fashion brand?
