Miami has long been home-away-from home for the quintessentially English Beckhams\u2014who trade their Cotswolds chickens for the Magic City sunshine any chance they can get. So when Victoria Beckham set her eyes on her inaugural Stateside retail presence, a pop-up at Bal Harbour Shops seemed like the perfect opportunity to marry business and pleasure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, what\u2019s not to love about Miami? I\u2019d say it\u2019s my happy place,\u201d Beckham agreed. \u201cThe people, the energy, the way of life, and waking up to incredible weather every day.\u201d Wednesday evening also marked the brand\u2019s first-ever Miami-hosted event, with no shortage of friends showing up en masse to raise a chilled glass of Champagne \u00e0 la piscine to toast to the ephemeral store. Key players from her design and beauty teams had all flown in for the occasion, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite often, myself and David go to Bal Habour in the evening to have a drink and go for dinner\u2014it is the most luxurious way to shop and relax, and there\u2019s this real sense of welcoming, which I love,\u201d Beckham said. \u201cTo have all my teams with me and be able to host a dinner here\u2026it feels almost weird. This is not what my life normally looks like in Miami; it\u2019s usually much more laidback, casual, and just hanging out with the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Casual tendencies were indeed cast aside for the night, with guests including Ronaldo, Karolina Kurkova, Antonela Roccuzzo, Marc Anthony, and David Grutman arriving to crisp mini martinis and sake cocktails, before tucking into a seated dinner of modern Japanese fare by Makoto.<\/p>\n
And even with the heavy humidity and a high dew point, fashion came first. \u201cI’ll tell you one thing, we\u2019re going to be embracing some very different hairstyles this evening. We\u2019re going to be seeing each other like we\u2019ve never seen each other before,\u201d Beckham laughed, referring to her fellow Londonders attempting to cope with the heat. (During dinner, paper fans abounded.) Donning a \u201clight and breathable\u201d sleeveless cowl-neck silk number in a mink hue, she added: \u201cI never like it to look like I’ve tried too hard. I want to be comfortable, but effortless. And it will always be a heel.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Bal Harbour boutique will remain in situ through September 30, Beckham has long set her sights on a permanent Manhattan address to house her wares (and beauty) and it\u2019s set to debut this fall. \u201cIt\u2019s really a dream come true,\u201d Beckham said of the still-under-wraps space. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent such a lot of time, a long time, fixing the business and now we have a huge opportunity with regards to retail. New York is where it all began. I first started showing my collections there in 2008, so I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for the city, I\u2019m very, very, very excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami has long been home-away-from home for the quintessentially English Beckhams\u2014who trade their Cotswolds chickens for the Magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,46120],"class_list":["post-336739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-vogue-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}