The earliest dress sense is instinctive. During our formative years – as we transition from girls into women – we search for our voice not only verbally but visually, too. Over the last year, Victoria Beckham has re-acquainted herself with photographs and footage from her young adulthood, an experience which sparked a reflection on the designer’s own adolescent exploration of dressing.

For Spring-Summer 2026, the retrospective inspires an abstract adaptation of the coming-of-age wardrobe: the experimental gestures, naïve compositions and happy accidents that shape the way we learn to dress and express ourselves. Seen through the present-day eyes of Victoria Beckham – who is mother to a teenage daughter – the proposal re-connects with the pure joy of dressing inherent to the exceptional stage of girlhood. Conjuring the characteristic romanticism of rite-of-passage films such as Romeo + Juliet and The Virgin Suicides, a girly spontaneity takes form, conveyed in delicate garments imbued with the erosion and creasing found in a young person’s wardrobe.