There is no official code of conduct for those welcomed through the doors of Beckingham Palace, but many choose to observe the traditional norms – one of which includes dressing, exclusively, in Victoria Beckham’s designs. Last night, for instance, the extended brood gathered on the step and repeat stairs of their Miami mansion to mark David’s 50th with a family portrait. Victoria sported an ivory satin slip dress, while Kim Turnbull (Romeo’s girlfriend) posed in a muted chartreuse iteration. 13-year-old Harper wore the same chocolate brown version she was clothed in for her mum’s autumn/winter 2025 presentation at Paris Fashion Week, and Jackie Apostel (Cruz’s partner) went for a jade column with a coordinating Dorian handbag.
Here was an advertisement for the Beckham brand just as powerful as Victoria’s Steven Klein-lensed campaigns – and since the designer has yet to expand into men’s clothing, David, Romeo, and Cruz adhered to their own uniform of Kim Jones-designed suiting. (It was David, after all, who debuted the designer’s vision for Dior at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s 2018 wedding.) The erstwhile creative director has since assumed a sort of royal warrant for the Beckhams’s ceremonial occasions. See: the tuxedo David wore to Brooklyn and Nicola’s nuptials in 2022, and for dinner at Highgrove House in 2025, while Victoria, on both occasions, wore slip dresses. (If it’s not long, aqueous, and clinging to her frame, she’s really not interested.)
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The Beckhams were later on joined by a handful of David’s friends, among them footballers Luis Suárez, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Lionel Messi at a downtown Italian restaurant – just an intimate gathering in comparison to Victoria’s 50th, which took place at Oswald’s last April, and precipitated an unofficial Spice Girls reunion. On the subject of her own half-century, Victoria said: “When I was younger and growing up, I was constantly told no, no, no. I’ve proved that if you really work hard and believe in yourself, the sky’s the limit. I always say: ‘Dream big, and then dream even bigger.’ I was never the best at anything, I was never the popular girl, I’ve always had to work really, really hard.”
