There are few people who better embodied the purring come hither of Roberto Cavalli’s designs than a 2005 to 2008-era Victoria Beckham, back when the pop star-turned-professional WAG was cycling through choppy bobs on the outskirts of Madrid.
” This is, after all, the same woman who once challenged Cavalli’s atelier to cut a dress to such a waist-cinching extreme that she’d be rendered unable to sit down. “I don’t care, I’ll go in a horsebox standing up if I have to – I want it tighter!” Beckham said in 2006, remembering a fitting for the Ming Vase-inspired dress she wore to Elton John’s white tie and tiara ball in ’05. “Party clothes are the one area where my sense of practicality goes out the window.