Blend it like Beckham; Victoria jets into Dublin for launch of new make-up line

Her first make-up line for Estée Lauder was the most talked about launch last year. And it lived up to the hype. This week Victoria Beckham flew into Dublin to showcase her second collection — and it’s a show stopper, writes Vickie Maye

She’s been a designer nine years now, two years longer than she was a Spice Girl. Certainly it’s difficult to reconcile the elegant woman standing before us in Brown Thomas, Dublin, with the Victoria Beckham of the 1990s, all dyed blonde hair, PVC catsuits, tight corsets — clothes worn, she has said, to mask her lack of confidence.

Today she is stylish and demure in an on-trend red, back-exposing, ruffled dress from her own A/W collection. She has all the signs of a woman who has found her comfort zone. And fashion truly is her calling.