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- What is wrong with this photo? - Imagine.

When I was about to start working with Roland,

the other Spice Girls told me they wanted to go on tour.

David was like, "It's really good for the kids to see you do this."

I'm like...

Our kids weren't around to see their mum be a Spice Girl.

He mum-guilted me.

Love you, darling. I'll walk you down there.

Oh, I've got such a stiff neck.

Have I got enough makeup on?

More than enough.

Good luck.

No, no, no, no

No, no, no, no...

I hadn't been Posh Spice for such a long time.

You know it's time to say goodbye

Goodbye, my friend

I know you're gone, you said you're gone But I can still feel you here

It's not the end

You gotta keep it strong Before the pain turns into fear

So glad we made it

Time will never...

It was good to be back with them.

- No, no, no - No, no, no, no...

One of the girls actually said to me,

and it did upset me, not too long ago, actually...

It was Melanie B who said to me,

"Don't forget where you've come from."

I have never forgotten where I come from.

I've never, ever forgotten

that Posh Spice is the reason that I'm sitting here now.

She might have been grumpy, but she was actually great.

Time will never, never ever change it...

It was good to celebrate the Spice Girls,

but it was during that tour that I realized I didn't belong onstage.

It had been fun,

but it wasn't what I loved anymore.

- Hello. - Hello.

The Spice Girls were the ones that always said to me,

"Don't hold back."

I loved fashion,

and I wanted to be in the fashion industry.

It was time to do something completely different.

- Wave! - Victoria!

In popular culture, Victoria was a WAG.

She was Posh.

The fashion industry didn't like her.

The industry can be a little snobbish.

We wanted to cross that line.

You want to be taken seriously.

I knew that to start this new chapter of my life,

I had to change.

Strip the other personas away.

You know, I buried those boobs in Baden-Baden.

I became a simpler, more elegant version of myself.

And I went to work.

From the top, where she is,

I had to bring her back to the bottom to learn.

He really challenged me.

If you want to be a designer, you have to know who you are.

Who was the customer of Victoria?

It's women who wanted to be like her.

She was the product.

Ultimately, it really was about what I couldn't find.

I wanted the perfect dress,

and I couldn't find what I was looking for.

I don't sketch,

but I did start by draping on myself, you know?

We didn't have the budgets to have fit models,

so I used my own body.

I remember standing there in the mirror, in my underwear,

with Roland, and just bits of fabric.

A dress is that little movement that you have to do with the skirt.

He just kept saying, "Perfect the dress."

He made me question everything, every decision that I made.

I used to cry a lot.

If you're not tough with Victoria, Victoria Beckham will walk over me.

Nobody know your voice.

How do you make it yours?

He gave me the tools that I needed to create.

I was doing what I finally wanted to do.

We didn't know if she was going to succeed,

but she was ready for this challenge.

I didn't need to say "Hey, look at me" anymore.

This creative outlet, that can do the talking.

Hi, how's it going?

Now, you be careful because it's very slippery.

Hi, how are you?

I mean...

Oh, careful. I'm worried you're gonna fall.

So this is the kind of glamorous entrance and exit that we regularly make.

And the reason for this

is because there's a lot of paparazzi outside.

Thank you.

I was going to sleep really thinking,

"Shoe, dress, girl," um...

So I don't know.

We're trying to fit this car through a very, very small gap right now.

I mean, this is how...

I really don't mind... Is this so that we don't get wet?

This is the kind of service that you get in Paris.

They wanna protect your blow-dry.

Here we are.

- Hey, how are you? - Good. How are you?

Good. How is everybody?

Are you good?

- See you in a bit. - See you in a bit.

Good morning.

- Morning. - Ooh! Oh! Ça va?

Liz, Mia, Layla.

Let's have a walk.

- I think she's cute. - Yes.

Esther, wait.

Wait a second. We're going to try something on you.

- Thank you. - Thank you so much.

We have 40 girls to cast for 40 looks.

The atelier then have to make the clothes fit perfectly on each model.

No, all the machines have turned off.

The universe went, "Non."

Yes, the fuse has blown.

Not today.

We're trying to get an enormous amount done

in a very short space of time.

We're not gonna sleep a lot this week.

Absolutely. Let's do the trouser as well.

Can you grab the various knitwear options?

It's so late at night, outside, just in one space.

Normally the girls walk from room to room.

This is the first time I'm showing as a house

with fashion and beauty and fragrance all together.

It's definitely the most stressful show we've ever done.

Stressful!

There's so much that could go wrong.

Are you going to attach it at the bottom?

I've been cross-questioning every single decision in my head.

- So we have four there. - Okay.

- One, two, three of those. - Yes.

Everything has to be perfect.

It's gotta be best in class before I put it out there,

so there's never any compromise.

And I've spent years building this foundation.

When I stepped into the fashion industry, I had a lot of naivety.

I remember thinking,

"Oh, she has no idea what she's in for."

I first became aware of Victoria in the mid-'90s.

I did know that she loved Gucci because she was photographed all the time.

So I was always happy when I saw her photographed in my clothes.

David as well.

I never know what to wear.

Yeah, it must be really hard for you, Victoria,

you know, trying to decide whether to wear the little Gucci dress,

the little Gucci dress,

or the little Gucci dress.

Exactly.

I remember when I first heard

that Victoria was going to start her own fashion label.

And I wanted to call her and say,

"Why? Why would you do this?"

"Do you understand this business is so tough?"

She has to show to people, demonstrate to people, that she had it,

and people are not easy to recognize that.

If you are a pop star, you're gonna be a pop star forever.

I thought she was very, very brave.

I think a lot of people didn't take it seriously.

I think a lot of people thought, "Okay, Victoria Beckham's starting a collection."

"Someone else will probably design it. She'll stick her name on it."

"Won't be very serious."

And everybody warning her, "You will not be accepted."

"Oh, here comes another celebrity wanting to be a fashion person."

Everybody was coming out with a line.

Jessica Simpson had a line, and Paris Hilton had a line.

The likelihood that I was going to become successful

was very, very slim,

but I really didn't listen to that.

That fueled me, to be completely honest.

So in 2008,

I decided to show my first collection.

I didn't do a big fashion show and come out to dry ice.

I was showing ten dresses in a hotel suite.

And even though David helped me set up this business, financially,

he didn't come to the show.

I didn't want celebrities there

because I didn't want it to be about celebrity.

I was really, really scared.

It's almost like you're standing in a room naked.

You feel vulnerable.

The fear of being rejected by that industry was there.

Journalists, they didn't really say very much,

and they left, and I'd be sitting there thinking, "Did they like it?"

I knew what the expectation of every person is going to be.

He said, "What's the worst that can happen?"

To fall flat on your face.

I remember the first review coming through.

It was amazing.

I was absolutely blown away by the response.

The press was really, "Oh, wow. Oh... Oh, wow."

My PR at the time said, "You're not gonna believe this."

It was Madonna in W Magazine wearing one of my dresses.

I didn't think in my wildest dreams that was gonna happen.

I said, "One show is not enough."

"I can't give you a diploma for that," you know?

"It's just the beginning." She's just scratched a bit the surface,

and... and, uh... and now the next one.

Morning.

- How's your house coming along? - I have, like, turkeys.

You have turkeys? We've got chickens.

I have to tell David he should get some turkeys

'cause you know he's got lots of animals.

You're gonna end up with a proper farm.

How big is the chicken house?

Oh, it's impressive. Yeah, it's a proper chicken house, yeah.

You should see his cock. It's magnificent.

I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding. It really is.

Hey.

- Hey. - How you doing?

Hey, are you all right?

- Hey. - Hi.

The lead-up to a show is hard.

But she's good at putting up a front.

We've got another girl that's come for the casting.

- Harper. - Give us a good walk.

Give us a good walk. You look gorgeous.

I just want you to feel comfortable, so as long as you're... Okay.

- You look perfect. Beautiful. - I like the color.

So pretty.

These are the shoes you're gonna wear, yeah?

- Yeah. - It is such a gorgeous dress.

Looks amazing. We just need to do the length.

David's sitting there, watching me.

It's the one time where he really sees

all of the work that I've put in really come to fruition.

I actually think I have my own good opinions.

I actually do, and sometimes I'll voice them.

It fits you so perfectly.

Do you not think they're at a dangerous length there for her heel?

He always makes me laugh when he gives words of advice,

and I'm like, "Yeah, that's great."

"Keep it to yourself."

- Oh, here we go. Okay. - I love it.

I love the sleeve. That's exactly what you wanted, right?

It's really cool, that, Cruz. Why did I never get a suit?

- Quite rude. - I did offer.

- I kind of prefer the black one. - Yeah.

- Let's have a look. - The black is less matchy.

- I like the black one, actually. - Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a really busy moment.

But then when you've got all of the family, it is a juggle.

"Is anybody upset? Has everybody got what they want?"

I want everyone to be happy.

- You happy with your dress? - Yeah, I love it.

I want to try and make everyone feel good,

but inside, my mind really is elsewhere.

I'm thinking of a lot of... a lot of other things.

I don't think any of them really know quite what goes on.

Is this what you felt like when you came to watch me play football?

Yeah.

We've been together for 27 years...

It's amazing. So beautiful.

...and she's still as driven as she was when I first met her.

You know, the way she was wired was different.

David, explain to us what you've got on your feet.

- I'm not explaining. You can explain. - Look at that.

David Beckham wears Spice Girls socks.

I'm sure my mum and dad would've loved me to have met a local girl,

and my manager would've loved me to have met a local girl

that stayed in Manchester,

that lived in Manchester, that never wanted to leave Manchester,

and just was my wife.

But I didn't want that.

I never wanted that.

Harper, you're gonna love this.

- Oh, that's so cool. - Yeah.

I was never the young girl, growing up, that dreamt of getting married

and dreamt of being a mum.

It wasn't until I met David that those things even occurred to me.

I was in the Spice Girls when I got pregnant with Brooklyn.

I was so excited to be pregnant.

It was August, in Miami.

I was a couple of months pregnant. It was so hot.

I was in a PVC catsuit.

I had a bucket on the side of the stage

that I would have to just keep running offstage

and, like, being sick in because I had such bad morning sickness.

And my PVC catsuit was having to be let out on a daily basis

'cause I was... I was growing.

I remember, I used to turn around to the tour director and say,

"I just can't go on,"

and he'd say to me,

"There's only 102 shows left to do."

The determination that she has...

that comes from her parents.

We've built and planted every single thing in this garden.

Every... Everything.

So you can see Tony stopped work when you arrived.

My parents still live in the house that I grew up in.

When they bought that house, it was a shell.

My dad built it himself.

He had this dream, and he was gonna do everything that he could

to create the perfect living environment for his family.

It had everything that I wanted

because I could see that I could do things with it.

- Didn't have everything I wanted. - No. No.

I wanted a cooker and to be able to turn the taps on and off.

Yeah. Yeah. It was in a terrible state.

Tony, what kind of business did you have?

- Electrical wholesaling. - Electrical wholesaling.

The children have always been a big part, weren't they, of what you did.

They have, yes. Yeah.

My dad started with nothing.

He used to sit me and my brother and sister

in, like, a little production line.

We would build things.

Plugs and electrical things.

My mum put us all in the back of the van in our pajamas.

My dad would drive around, delivering these things that we'd built.

- Lights and... - Cable and stuff.

- Anything like that. - It wasn't domestic stuff.

But Tony's always had an amazing work ethic.

Yeah, I was very strict, to myself.

Dad worked so, so hard,

and he expected me to do the same.

I was with my mum and dad the other night,

and we were talking about when I was at theater school

and when I desperately wanted to be a dancer.

My mum and dad remortgaged their house

so I could go to theater school.

And I was so aware of that.

Aware of the responsibility I had to work really hard.

But I wasn't ever the best.

I wasn't the best dancer, the best singer.

I didn't look like a lot of the other girls.

That's where I started getting a lot of criticism

about my appearance, my weight.

And I remember the principal of the theater school saying to me,

you know, "At the end of the show, we're gonna just fly you girls in."

"You girls can just be flown in."

Meaning that we weren't, sort of,

looking as aesthetically pleasing as some of the others.

"We'll just fly you in the back."

Yeah, I mean...

On one occasion where we thought she was doing really, really well,

and then when we went to see her do something,

she was put right at the back, wasn't she?

- Yeah. - If you remember that.

Told, "You're overweight. You'll be in the back."

Obviously it used to upset her.

But it must... it must affect you

because that's a very silly thing to say to a young person, isn't it? "You're fat."

I remember phoning my mum. I was crying. "I wanna come home."

And my mum said, "Come home."

"We'll go to Lakeside, and we'll buy a new pair of shoes,"

and then my dad would come on the phone, and he'd say...

- "Stay there. Put up with it, and--" - "And show them all."

"You stay there. You work hard."

And that ultimately set her up for life.

As we speak, I'm receiving tons of messages.

My WhatsApp is burning.

Yeah, it's been raining cats and dogs for the last few days,

and I, obviously, am checking the weather forecast every hour.

Right now I'm trying to find a lot of solutions

so the show doesn't look like a living nightmare.

If ever there was a season we could do something different with hair, this is it.

Because a lot of the girls have haircuts,

you can really lean into that individuality a little bit.

That'd be really nice. You know it's outside?

- Okay. - We do have... We do have a cover.

But obviously, you could be dealing with a damp, sort of, humidity.

- Right. - Maybe.

- Okay. - Which is not making your job easy.

But it's just the reality of "don't know what weather's gonna be like."

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

I had my heart set on an outdoors show space

because I was convinced it was gonna still be hot

on 27th September in Paris.

I don't know what I was thinking.

Welcome to Glastonbury!

Oh my God, this is not cool.

Yeah, well, imagine Friday night.

Oh my God.

We're going to this amazing castle next to Paris

that has never received any show before.

So, basically, the structure is not ready to welcome all these guests.

Fuck. Guys, yesterday was not like that.

It's crazy. It's getting worse and worse every day.

This beautiful path is now covered by mud,

which is obviously not acceptable for the guests we're gonna host.

Well, they have to cover this, for sure.

You can't do flooring everywhere. Today it looks like shit, and...

We all agree on this.

Also, with this humidity, we have mold and things everywhere.

It's impossible. We are still working. We still have trucks coming.

Here is a question of what we're gonna do, but it's a question, obviously.

It was a disaster. It's just mud.

The Mayor's office won't allow us to add gravel.

We're in a crisis situation with this.

Guys, let's go.

Now you understand why I was stressed the other day when I went back.

But as soon as I come back, I grab Victoria and Lara and Jane.

Like, could you put something if you can't cover it?

I'm just thinking about white pants.

They'll be black.

Right now, we can't cover them, which is...

Because it would be ugly as fuck.

If I am upset or concerned, I really try to not project.

It must look like the lights are on but there's no one in.

You know, it's taken a long, long time to get here.

It's been a hell of a roller coaster.

I was building the fashion business like any start-up,

traveling back and forth between New York and LA.

I didn't know if it was gonna be one collection, two collections.

Wow! Wouldn't it be amazing if I could do three collections?

But as soon as people did become aware that Roland was involved,

everybody wanted to say that it was Roland that had secretly created the collection.

I object strongly to these celebrities multitasking.

Victoria Beckham.

Sorry, girls. You sing, we design, you know?

And we spend years of training--

Her dresses look suspiciously like Roland Mouret, don't they?

Very suspicious. I think Roland is offering her a little assistance.

Oh. Hold on. Wow. What?

Of course. There's gotta be a man behind it.

It couldn't be, like, a silly little pop star.

No... No way. No way. I didn't design that collection.

People thinking that I was just the front person

and that Roland was the one that was actually designing.

I knew I had such a long way to go.

It was gonna take more than one show to prove myself.

It takes time. It takes time and consistency.

What can I do? I can focus.

I can work hard.

And I really... I blocked out the noise.

She likes to prove people wrong.

Quietly.

And, ultimately, what I wanted

was Anna Wintour to see one of my collections.

Anna Wintour, the longtime editor in chief of American Vogue,

is one of the most powerful figures in fashion.

I knew her as a Spice Girl,

and we admired her style and her sense of commitment to fashion,

but most of the celebrities who get involved in our world

are not true designers.

I thought maybe this was a hobby.

I didn't quite believe it.

Well, we would invite her every season,

but she didn't show up.

It's either this or it's two different colors.

Exactly, which I prefer because I prefer the fit.

I'm gonna just go do this preview.

- Is that okay? - Okay. Okay.

- Hey, Mark. How are you? - Hi, Victoria. Lovely to see you.

I do press previews

where the press will come one-on-one to ask me questions.

And that's my opportunity to explain the collection

ahead of when they then see the show.

Did coming to Paris... Has it... Did it alter anything or not?

I think you feel more... more pressure

because, ultimately, for me, Paris has always been the dream.

And I'm sandwiched between brands

that I have looked up to and respected my entire life.

And worn, probably. Yes. Yes.

We create a collection that is seen on the catwalk.

We then translate that into a more wearable version

that will be sold.

- Are you excited about it? - I'm really excited about it.

Because we're also launching the next fragrance.

Right.

So the fragrance, and the story that goes alongside the fragrance,

was the inspiration to the venue.

Oh, okay.

I want to be part of the conversation.

I want to push boundaries.

But if I'm doing that, I do run the risk of people not understanding.

For the picture, Katie, can you just make sure they...

One fashion journalist who hasn't always seen

or appreciated what we're trying to do is trying to come in today.

Why does she even wanna come when she gives you reviews like that?

She's never gonna come in here and want to like what she sees.

You are taking this precious time before the show,

interrupt what we're doing...

They're gonna write regardless,

so if you put yourself in a position where you've gotten your point across,

if they then don't, you know, get it, that's all we can do.

You can't control what people write.

I see so many people get completely traumatized

by, like, what people write.

- People that have worked really hard. - I get it.

And those reviews come out when they're exhausted.

- Completely get it. - Really tired.

- If you don't have that conversation-- - The team have worked so hard--

They're gonna write anyway.

Whether she comes or not, she's gonna write.

I think you're gonna have to be the bigger person and do it.

It does hurt to read negative reviews.

When you put something out into the world, you have to be judged.

Some people will judge it and they won't like it.

But hoping they will, it's a really...

Uh! It's such a delicate position to be in.

Especially being her because she went through such a time

where anything that was photographed, written, was negative.

And I think she's always had this knee-jerk reaction

anytime a camera comes up, anytime an article's gonna come out,

"It's gonna be negative. It's gonna be bad."

Posh Spice, I hope that next time there's a strong breeze,

her neck gets stuck in that position

so she can't eat anything or take any fluids

and eventually starves to death

so that her Gucci twinset suit falls off her

and she expires.

People felt it was okay to criticize a woman

for her weight, for what she's doing,

for what she's wearing.

There were a lot of things happening in TV then that won't happen now.

That can't happen now.

I was weighed on national television when Brooklyn was six months old.

"Get on those scales," on television. "Have you lost the weight?" You know?

And we laugh about it and we joke about it when we're on television,

but I was really, really young.

And that hurts.

My Victoria that I knew sits at home in a tracksuit,

smiling, laughing, having a glass of wine.

That started to go purely because the criticism that she was getting.

I really started to doubt myself and not like myself,

you know, because I let it affect me.

I didn't know what I saw when I looked in the mirror.

Was I fat? Was I thin? I... I don't know.

You lose all sense of reality.

I was just very critical of myself. I didn't like what I saw.

I've been everything from "Porky Posh" to "Skinny Posh."

I mean, you know, it's... it's been a lot, and that's hard.

I had no control over what was being written about me,

pictures that were being taken,

and I suppose I wanted to control that, you know?

I could control it with the clothing. I could control...

I could control my weight.

And I was controlling it in an incredibly unhealthy way.

When you have an eating disorder, you become very good at lying.

And I was never honest about it with my parents.

I never talked about it publicly.

It really affects you

when you're being told, constantly, you're not good enough.

And I suppose that's been with me my whole life.

Was fashion something you and Victoria always bonded over?

Oh God, no. Oh my God, we never bonded over fashion.

I could care less about fashion.

She's taught me a lot about fashion, you know?

If it was up to me, I'd wear so much jewelry,

I'd look like a Christmas tree.

And she's like, "You know, you really should wear less."

"Just less."

So this is the dress that Victoria has picked out for you for the show.

Oh! I love it. It's gonna be comfortable.

Similar fabric to one of the dresses you wore before.

And it's a little cold, so I'm glad it's long sleeve.

Exactly, but it's still quite sexy.

Does this go in the back or the front?

- This falls down the back. - Down the back. Okay.

So... Let me go get her.

All right.

This is the biggest thing she's ever done for one of her shows.

She is stressed out,

so to show up for one day for her, is, like, not asking for a lot,

but it means so much to her when she sees more than the fashion critics

and more than celebrities being at the... at the show...

She just looks over to her kids. She looks over to David.

She looks over to me,

and then we, you know...

She just feels, like, okay.

- Hi. - Hey. How are you?

You look beautiful. I miss you.

- You too. - Hi, honey.

You were so gorgeous in the show.

You know, it's fun.

But it's usually the end of Fashion Week. That's why it's always next to yours.

And this time they opened.

It was pouring rain. We were outside.

- You're not outside, are you? - Yes.

- You are? - Yeah.

- No, we were out in the rain. - Oh my God.

- One of the girls fell. - Oh no. At least it wasn't you.

I know. I was like...

- These? You know I'm a Latina. - That could be good.

You know Coco Chanel used to say that before you leave the house,

you have to look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Off?

- You do the opposite. - I add!

Before you leave the house, you look in the mirror

and you just wanna add, add, add.

I do. I'm always like, "No, I need more."

- These skirts would look great on you. - Oh God. Are you crazy?

- No! It would look good. - I am too old.

This, with a knit. No you're not. I wear this with long boots.

But you have great legs. You should wear that.

- You have great legs. - No, I'm a little...

But it does look gorgeous...

I remember, once, going out with Eva,

and there were lots of paparazzi.

And Eva's walking along, and she doesn't give a shit,

and she's throwing her head back, and she's laughing.

She doesn't care.

And I remember, I wasn't even talking to her

because I didn't wanna be photographed.

The minute I see a camera, I change.

The barrier goes up, my armor goes on,

and that's when, you know, the miserable cow that doesn't smile,

that's when she comes out, and I'm so conscious of that.

And I don't like that. I'd rather not be that person.

I'd love to have the confidence to walk out of a restaurant and smile,

or stand on a red carpet and smile,

but I just can't do it.

- I'm gonna let you get on. - I love you. Go.

Thank you for coming. Dress looks gorgeous. You look amazing.

- I love you. I will see you Friday. - See you later!

I know you wouldn't think we're the same size because of my ass,

but we are!

Well...

You've got a gorgeous bottom.

Right, I'm gonna go back down.

2011 was a big year.

We were in LA.

The boys were at school, and I was pregnant with Harper.

- Victoria. - Congratulations, Victoria.

The collections were growing.

It took years and years,

but things started to change,

and things were going well.

People said how much they enjoyed Victoria's shows

and how much fun it was.

So I got curious.

Anna was coming to the show.

- Oh my God. - Enjoy the show.

When Anna's going to the show, you're ready to shit yourself.

Mediocrity.

It doesn't so much as bore me as anger me.

I was nervous.

It's a huge deal.

I was skeptical.

I think we can all be a little bit snobby in the fashion business

and think maybe this is, you know, a side gig.

But Victoria was one that totally proved us wrong.

It was clear that there was a vision there,

there was a point of view for people to recognize what she stands for,

and she achieved it with grace and with charm and with humility.

It was a real pinch-me moment.

I couldn't believe it.

She's actually, really, to be taken as a serious designer, which she is.

The fact that people are accepting me is really exciting.

There were more and more people we had to invite to the presentations,

so, naturally, we went from presentations

into the big show at the public library in New York.

I remember, I was still breastfeeding Harper.

Every time someone moved a chair, I was like, "Oh my God."

You know what it's like when you're breastfeeding.

Designer Brand of the Year goes to

Victoria Beckham.

We proved them wrong.

She was taking our revenge,

in the best way possible, by being creative.

She was getting rave reviews.

Thank you.

That feeling was something I wasn't used to since the Spice Girls.

And you want more.

It's kind of addictive.

You can lose yourself in it.

Victoria, let's see a smile! Come on. You can do it. Smile.

I said, "Slow down. Slow down."

The shows just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Victoria Beckham opened this, her first stand-alone boutique

in London's swanky Mayfair.

It was incredible. I never thought that that would be me.

I was taking this brand to the next level.

Now, five years ago, Victoria Beckham only had three people working for her.

Now she has over a hundred.

We were investing heavily.

We were spending all this money on locations, on models,

on people being there,

and I would walk into, you know, the show area, and I'm like...

Things were starting to get out of control.

We're getting the looks done. We've got six looks done and 34 to go.

So we'll see how that goes in the next

four hours,

if any more will be confirmed.

We've got some models coming in to try things on,

and we'll see how that fitting goes.

One, two, three, four, automatic thumb war. Go.

Okay. No. You went... We have to do it again.

Okay. One, two, three, four, automatic thumb war.

- Victoria, she is really cute. - She's really cute.

- Yeah, I like her accent. - Yeah, she's hot.

Her energy is hot.

- I wanna be like her when I grow up. - She's a boss bitch.

So this is our first "see now, buy now" dress.

As soon as the show hits, it is available to buy straightaway,

which is a fantastic moment for the brand because it's a gorgeous dress.

Gonna have it on a great girl for the show as well.

Kill it, Gigi. Go on.

Oh! Whoo!

- So you definitely want heels? - Risky.

- We can try it. - Okay.

I mean, it's almost like you've done this before.

The professionalism, Gigi.

To put Gigi in that dress and for her to walk in the show

is really important to me.

She can pick and choose what show she wants to do.

I'm an independent brand,

so I'm not pulling out a big, meaty checkbook.

- That's a good shoe. - That's a better shoe.

That looks really cool, I think. Do you like that shoe?

I love it.

- I like the attitude that she-- - Yeah, so do I.

Just a thought. Do you wanna try it without the bag?

- I like the bag. - I like the bag.

You feel comfortable? You like that?

- Yeah. - That look?

- You sure? - It looks great on you.

- We're gonna try a different one too. - Take a picture.

- Who have we got now? Felice? - Yes, this is the new skirt.

New skirt, not right color.

- Wow. - It's beautiful.

Does it need... Does it need to be...

You were gonna say "less transparent."

I think, if anything, it feels like it's falling forward a bit.

- The skirt? - It's not fitting right.

And there's something on the back of the corset, right? Yeah.

I'm really not happy with the fit of this one.

No, it's dropping forward, and it's a mess at the back.

This skirt has been bothering me all week.

The fabric is very transparent

and isn't behaving in the way that we want it to.

You... I'm assuming that it's out of the question

to make the corset in the same fabric as the skirt here?

Is there time to make the top in the same color as the...

I highly doubt it.

The fabric they've made this one in isn't perfect, so... it's a problem.

Look, babe. Your dad's in France. Look.

My dad?

Fish and chips.

My dad is in Paris, and he's eating fish and chips.

- Ted is very chic. - Fish and chips in Paris?

- He looks very happy. - Very.

That's typical.

There's last-minute garments being made

or alterations that are happening.

What's weird is it stands out, and then it comes in on this bit here.

- Then it goes... - Okay. All right.

- Make it smaller, then. - It's... Sorry. It's... Look.

The atelier, they are full capacity, and we're getting a little stressed

about the amount of amendments they have to make in time for the show.

How are you feeling?

Tired.

A little bit of a later night last night. 1:00 a.m.

The night before, we finished 12:00 a.m.

Victoria's a little bit stressed, on edge. Models are late.

We are 23 looks confirmed.

We have another 17 to go.

We're quite behind.

We're thinking it's going to be an all-nighter.

On Fashion Week, there's no sleep.

Are you sure you wanna keep this boning down here?

Because do you not think that is what is making all of this creasing happen?

It's all over the place, I know.

What's happening here? How do we keep this...

- They're remaking the whole thing. - Yeah.

This show is important for everybody that works for me.

But my name's on the label, and I feel the pressure of that.

You are only as good as your last show.

So the brand was growing.

And we were getting great reviews.

That felt good.

Everything looked great from the outside.

But the reality was, it was slipping through my fingers.

We had to go from small presentations to bigger shows,

but we were doing it in a really extravagant way,

and the business wasn't growing at the same pace.

There was a lot of money being spent that should never have been spent.

The losses were so, so big.

David was investing a lot.

It made me panic. I was panicked by it because I never saw anything coming back.

David, Victoria.

It was just getting worse and worse and worse.

We always agreed that we would support each other,

no matter what.

But it worried me.

This isn't sustainable.

It was like a snowball that was going down the mountain.

There was a lot of waste.

We were millions of pounds in the red.

I didn't know what to do,

and I was so desperate to save this business

that I cared so much about.

I felt, if I'm being completely honest, like I was breaking down myself.

Victoria!

How's the fashion line coming along, Victoria?

And I knew it was public knowledge.

I felt embarrassed.

But it's fact.

It's a fact.

It wasn't an opinion of anyone.

It wasn't anyone being unkind.

It was a fact, and I had to just take it on the chin.

I was in a hole. I felt like I was in quicksand.

There was no way of her business surviving.

Sorry, step back. Step back.

I was desperate. I was really, really desperate.

You walk in, and it feels like the biggest show we've ever done.

It's been this huge labor of love.

But it also feels like, "Oh shit."

Do you think it's a bit weird there?

It shouldn't go in that...

No, 'cause all these doors are gonna be open,

and then all outside is gonna be all... all the tea lights...

Wow. That's...

If someone pushes against that, by the way, you wanna be careful.

- Okay. - We're not working with that.

The floor, having been rained on for a week,

is like being at a festival right now.

Not in the right way.

I think the wheels might come off a little bit tonight.

I'm like,

"Is this how it's gonna look tomorrow?"

I think we do have to bear in mind we don't wanna be running too late.

The thing might be more the guest arrivals because of the traffic and the distance.

- Yeah. - We're obviously checking...

I worried,

and I didn't say it to her because I didn't want her to stress.

I'm taking people out of the center of Paris,

on a Friday night,

to a dilapidated castle.

Right, let's get the model.

What do you think of the transparency of the dress?

Well, I'm just worried about her skirt.

Yeah.

I'm trying to not cry.

I don't wanna worry David if he knows I'm upset.

And so, I do internalize a lot of those things.

I'm not gonna walk down these stairs. I'm just gonna stand up there.

Is that what you prefer?

I think so. I don't think I need to walk down the stairs.

Well, I do think you should.

Would you walk down to that first main platform?

- Maybe that first one. - Because that would be better.

She's put everything into this business.

Her identity is her work.

I love it.

If I have a bad show,

I could lose everything that I've worked for.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'll see you in the morning.

Okay, Francesca.

This is not gonna be ready.