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Victoria Beckham’s Off-Duty Uniform: A Bikini

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New mom Victoria Beckham may oversee a fashion empire, but that doesn’t mean she dresses up for work.

“When I’m here in London, which is for about a week every month it’s really, really full-on,” she says in the autumn/winter issue of ELLE Collections. When the designer is in the U.S., where husband David Beckham plays soccer for the Los Angeles Galaxy, her look is decidedly less formal. “I use Skype to talk with my team,” she says, “usually wearing either a dressing gown or a bikini.”

And while we rarely see the style icon sans trademark heels and sunglasses, Beckham insists her style is low maintenance. Of shopping sprees: “I just don’t have the time,” she says. “I get a lot of clothes on Net-a-Porter and I wear my own stuff.” Speaking of her stuff, could a collection of swimwear be next?

–Justine Harman

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Get Girly in Victoria Beckham’s New Line of Dresses

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While creating her new dress line, Victoria by Victoria Beckham, the megstar informed her staffers that she was pregnant. “One of my team said, ‘It would be funny if you found out you were having a girl,’” she recalls to WWD. “Because this is the most girly collection I’ve ever created.” Priced primarily from $550 to $900, the colorful, ’60s-esque line was inspired by the cartoon character Emily the Strange, a cat-loving teen with a cute-meets-chic sense of style. “These are the kind of dresses I’ve been searching for,” Beckham says. “The perfect little summer dress, something that was fun, something that was girly, something that was easy to wear, something that would take you from day through the night.” And while creating the looks, she kept the average customer in mind. “I’m opening these designs to women and girls of all different shapes and sizes, people who maybe want something less tight and clingy and structured,” Beckham explains, contrasting the dresses to her current Victoria Beckham collection. “You can wear them with a pair of flats or a pair of heels and they look great.” Expect to see the mom-to-be out promoting her looks, too; she tells WWD she plans on “making quite a fuss when this launches at retail” for spring/summer 2012.

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Victoria Beckham Prefers Men With No Clothes On

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With one of the world’s hottest men as her husband, designing suits for the opposite sex may seem like a logical next step for Victoria Beckham, but the designer begs to differ. “I’m not really that interested, at the moment, in men’s clothes,” Posh told the International Herald Tribune‘s fashion editor Suzy Menkes at the 10th anniversary of the publication’s Heritage Luxury Conference in London, before admitting that yes, men do in fact look better with their clothes off. Beckham, who has successfully launched five lines since 2009 and is currently up for a British Fashion Award, says creating clothes for the opposite sex would be difficult. “How on earth, as a male, do you design dresses for women?” she said. “Because how I work is I actually put the dresses on myself. And I won’t disclose any of their answers but quite a few of my male friends have actually said they do put the dresses on themselves.” And just in case Posh changes her mind and does decide to venture into menswear, she knows husband David Beckham would be the perfect male mannequin. But for now, she said, his role is to just look good, because “that’s what he does.” For the full interview, check out nytimes.com. –Jessie Goldberg
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