Follow up on Beckham

Watched Victoria Beckham documentary last night and what an anxiety roller coaster! Somehow I expected it to be more about her music career but the documentary was about the rise and fall and rise and fall of her fashion line. Honestly I can understand how fashion designers lose their patience with celebrities who decide they can step in and do what the established designers have done, without the benefit of experience, education, or respect for the craft. It would be the same as if someone who liked to eat decided they could walk into a restaurant kitchen and be a CHEF. Or a parent decided they could walk into a school and be an art teacher or a gym teacher because they liked crafts or sports. After all, aside from our gtalent and interest, we teachers ahve gone to college to study the craft and the art and we have worked to get certified, just like your dentist.

But - spoiler alert - it turned out that Victoria did have enough talent and worked hard enough and long enough to gain the experience (and the financing) she needed to save her business just as it began to come crashing over the railing and down the cliff face of debt.

Honestly, I felt so sorry for her when her big Paris show was scheduled to be held outdoors in September and there was a torrential rain storm. But really, I should have thought anyone would have known better than to schedule anything on that scale outdoors - the weather is infamously unpredictable!

Next day, I did some looking around and found that not only has Victoria Beckham's fashion house prospered, but she added a cosmetics and accessories line and the whole works is now comfortably profitable.

If you have any interest in the behind the scenes of fashion, or in the experience of a person re-making him or herself and starting a new career, there is a lot to be enjoyed in this documentary.

as far as fashion and I go - it is all about FUNCTION! It has been a couple of decades since I had any interest in my appearance beyond not being a spectacle. I wear a belt bag so I don't forget my purse somewhere, and my keys hook onto it so I don't lose them. My old old old feet will not stand for anything but the ugliest and most roomy foot wear. My hair is short so I can step out of the shower and don't need to blow dry and I am white haired as befits my 80 years. That's my fashion statement.

I do think, however, it is a good lesson in finding your passion in a new career when the other one has come to its end. Maybe that's the best lesson in this film.

Happy trails! wrightj45@yahoo.com