“Victoria and I’ve at all times been in dialog about style,” says Mia Regan. She’s referring, after all, to Victoria Beckham, with whom – as a rising mannequin and an influential dresser herself – Mia has at all times had heaps to speak about. It was final 12 months, when Victoria urged a louche pair of trousers in certainly one of her collections be named after Mia, who “loves a dishevelled match”, that the concept of a collaboration first got here up.
“I’ve at all times needed to do one thing like this,” provides Mia, who was given full artistic freedom to design the six-piece denim capsule, which launches on October twenty seventh on Victoria’s devoted e-commerce website and her flagship on Dover Avenue. “I felt that [Victoria] actually trusted me”, she says. “To see her in full work mode was cool.”
For Victoria, the capsule assortment was an “thrilling method to deliver [Mia’s] signature Gen-Z aptitude” to her eponymous model. “Mia has at all times had a novel method to style and styling,” she tells British Vogue. “I like that she’s enjoyable and never afraid to strive new issues on the subject of her private type, which is mirrored within the capsule.”
The gathering is made up of “straightforward denim silhouettes” which have all been given “Mia’s fashion-forward contact”, Victoria explains. Specializing in denim was a pure resolution, on condition that it’s key to each girls’s wardrobes. “Denim has been a continuing in my wardrobe since I used to be somewhat lady. It’s so sensible and versatile!” says Victoria. Mia, who first met Victoria by means of the designer’s son, Romeo Beckham, is in settlement: “The factor I like essentially the most about denim is that it’s so versatile.”
Victoria had a hand within the course of, however left it as much as Mia to deliver the concepts they mentioned to life. “I needed to remain actually genuine to myself,” Mia explains. The 19-year-old was in New York for style week when she discovered the collaboration was going forward, and instantly got down to discover inspiration. Her first cease? The thrift retailer Goodwill – certainly one of her go-to purchasing locations when she’s within the US – the place she discovered a retro denim jacket. The bell-sleeved jacket, along with the worn-in classic denim in her personal wardrobe, and hand-me-downs from her mum, inform the nostalgic silhouettes within the assortment.
After bouncing concepts round in preliminary design conferences with Victoria, Mia made a visit to the manufacturing facility in Italy earlier this 12 months to see the primary samples. “It was an experimental course of,” explains Mia of the splicing and transforming that occurred throughout her time with the workforce. She describes absorbing their terminology, as she flipped by means of swatches and requested questions, as certainly one of her highlights of the journey. To make sure her denim stands out from different kinds available on the market, Mia paid cautious consideration to finer particulars, incorporating colourful pink and yellow stitching, leather-based patches and her personal brand. “They’re like little Easter eggs,” she smiles. “The entire undertaking gave me a variety of confidence.”
Mia struggles to call a favorite piece (“I like each certainly one of them and can shield them with my life!”), however she’s going to say the stone-wash puddle flare denims and waistcoat have a end that’s in contrast to anything she owns. “You possibly can put on them suddenly or one piece at a time,” she says proudly. “In the summertime or the winter.”
Victoria is simply as thrilled with the outcomes of the younger mannequin’s efforts. “This capsule is so solely Mia,” she says. “And I like that.”
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