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Extinction Rebellion targets Victoria Beckham’s London fashion show

By AFP
September 16, 2019

LONDON: Victoria Beckham unveiled a timelessly chic collection in the ornate court of Britain´s Foreign Office on Sunday as environmental demonstrators shut the road outside to protest waste created by fast fashion.

The fashion pack were forced to pass their handbags through metal detectors before entering the majestic Durbar Court, where they sat among doric columns of polished granite. The models sashaying along the marble floor wore long silk dresses in powder pink or purple, and blouses with big collars and houndstooth jackets for an elegant seventies look. Beckham´s husband, ex-footballer David, and their four children — Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper — were in the front row to watch, alongside Anna Wintour. “Lightness, easiness, freedom — those are the ideas I was thinking of for this collection,” the British designer, a former member of the Spice Girls pop group, said in the notes for her Spring-Summer 2020 collection.