Lady Victoria Beckham sneaks off to the bathroom on holiday to secretly send work emails.
The 51-year-old former Spice Girls singer finds it hard to switch off and step away from her fashion and beauty empire when she's supposed to be on vacation so finds excuses to step away from husband Sir David Beckham and their children in order to keep up-to-date with her firm.
She admitted to WSJ. magazine: “I’m the kind of person that will be on holiday, and I’ll go to the bathroom and sort of hide and make calls and send emails and be working so that my family don’t know, because I can’t switch off. This isn’t just a job.”
Just over five years ago, Victoria's brand was around $68 million in debt and she admitted she put her trust in the wrong people.
She said: “I brought a lot of people in, put them in high-powered positions. You do trust, and that doesn’t always work out.”
And David Belhassen, founder of NEO Investment Partners, which became a stakeholder in 2017, felt people didn't know how to say no to Victoria.
He said: “Of course Victoria would come with dreams of having big shows and spending there and doing the best fabric, and ‘Let’s redo the whole dress, it’s not working, it’s not what I want.' "
To help keep the firm afloat, Victoria's husband invested around $30 million into her company via his own DB Ventures, but the designer insisted everything they do is a joint affair.
She said: “We share everything, and so we were both supporting the business really at a time where financially we weren’t really in a position to do that,” she says.
After 14 years of losses, Victoria's epnymous brand finally made a profit in 2022 thanks largely to her make-up range and she is very proud of all she has achieved.
She said: “At a time when we’re reading so much about how fashion is really struggling, the huge houses are really struggling, to be an independent brand, be profitable, fashion in its own right—clothing is selling and we are profitable independent of beauty - is something that I’m so proud of."
Victoria has recently teamed up to collaborate with Gap and she's thrilled to be working with the "American institution".
She said: “It enables me to reach a customer that I’m not already reaching.
“When I look at the marketing power of the Gap, that’s huge for me.”
