Victoria Beckham Netflix documentary chronicles fashion label rescue

Victoria Beckham’s self-titled three-part documentary premiered on Netflix in early October, offering the former Spice Girl and fashion designer a platform to recount her rise from pop star to luxury brand founder, and to detail personal and professional struggles behind the public image. Filmed over several years and co-produced by Beckham’s Studio 99 alongside production partners, the series blends backstage footage of runway preparations with reflective interviews recorded in the designer’s life and home.

Beckham frames the series as an attempt to reclaim her narrative after decades of tabloid scrutiny. The documentary spends little time on the four years she spent with the Spice Girls and instead focuses on her two-decade effort to build Victoria Beckham the fashion and beauty business, her experiences as a wife and mother, and the health and identity issues that accompanied a life in the public eye. In one candid sequence shared on social media, she jokes about why she often appears moody in photographs, explaining that the angle from which she smiles can look different on camera. She also speaks openly about lifelong battles with body image and eating disorder behavior,...