Victoria Beckham has a healthy appetite for Hermès Birkins. We don’t need this Pulitzer prize-winning piece of journalism to remind us of this. But, unlike her fellow hungry collectors (we’re looking at you Cardi B and Kim Kardashian), Beckham has a distinct way of styling her lime-green, Tippex-white and exotic-skinned holdalls that hints she has the monopoly on that elite brand of one per cent chic.
In Beckham’s world, Hermès bags aren’t saved for best, but slung over the arm of a businesswoman with four children and a schedule holding each minute to account. These butter-soft babies are politely stuffed, but left undone, suggesting an on-the-go lifestyle does not facilitate the neat buckling of one’s gold Hermès hardware. She might need to whip out her Victoria Beckham Bitten Lip Tint at a moment’s notice!
There’s an art to leaving one’s Birkin unclasped. No one actually wants to peep inside and see the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink essentials that are necessary to function as an adult in the world. One must be Mary Poppins without looking like Mary Poppins. Despite juggling kids, vertiginous heels, voluminous hair extensions (during the WAG days) and a clutch of invasive paparazzi cameras in her face, we never, ever see anything peeping out of VB’s Hermès bags thanks to the wonderfully pliable foldover top (OK, we once witnessed a monogrammed Louis Vuitton package saying hello while Victoria was striding through the airport, but how fab!)
