Victoria Beckham triumphs at ‘fashion Oscars’

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Victoria Beckham‘s elevation into the fashion industry’s elite was confirmed Monday when she was awarded a major prize at Britain’s most prestigious design awards.

The singer won the Best Designer Brand prize at the British Fashion Awards ceremony held in central London’s exclusive Savoy Hotel.

Wearing a black halter-neck gown, Beckham claimed the ‘fashion Oscar’ after beating off competition from industry giants Stella McCartney, Tom Ford and Burberry.
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Victoria Beckham is ‘best emerging British brand’

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British brands including Victoria Beckham, Alexander McQueen and Mulberry were winners at the Walpole Awards in London on Monday, November 14.

Beckham, whose eponymous dress collection debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2008, received the Emerging British Luxury Brand gong.

Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen took the British Luxury Design Talent prize, and Mulberry was honored in the British Luxury Overseas category.
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Victoria Beckham designs handbag for Selfridges

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Victoria Beckham has designed a one-off bag for the Selfridges Christmas collection, costing £8,995 ($14,700).

The one-of-a-kind creation, part of the exclusive Selfridges ‘White Christmas’ range, is made from crocodile skin and features a delicate gold chain handle.

Other items in the all-white collection include a white Burberry trench, a white Mulberry Alexa bag, a white Issa gown and a white Alexander McQueen clutch.
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Victoria Beckham Joins Range Rover Design Team

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Land Rover has held a private preview of its new Range Rover model almost a year ahead of its release, describing the vehicle as the “smallest, lightest and most fuel efficient Range Rover ever” and announcing Victoria Beckham as a new creative design director for the brand.

The Range Rover Evoque was previewed on July 1 at Range Rover’s 40th anniversary celebration, with Land Rover’s design director calling the coupe a “bold evolution of Range Rover design.”

The cosmopolitan car will be sold in over 160 countries when it is released next year and will be officially unveiled at the Paris Motor Show on September 30.
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Victoria and David Beckham $44 million art collection

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Footballer David Beckham and his wife Victoria have an art collection worth almost $44 million and are now planning to put it on public display.

The entire collection, bought over eight years, is “love themed”.

It includes paintings, portraits and sculptures by Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor Wood, Tracey Emin, Banksy, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, mirror.co.uk reported.

Some of the art is openly sentimental but other pieces like Hirst’s bull’s heart stabbed with scalpels, speak to the trials and tribulations of modern romance.
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George Clooney’s Lake Como villa for sale

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David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly keen to snap up George Clooney’s Lake Como villa after he put it up for sale.

The 48-year-old actor has put his Italian home on the market because of harrassment by paparazzi.

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