From a 'naive' fashion rookie to worth $130 mn, Victoria Beckham's come a long way

By Shannon Tellis

The behemoth fashion industry has chewed up and spat out thousands of designers, but one former musician-turned-fashion-designer has stuck on, and she says its thanks to one simple principle — don’t focus on what you don’t know.

At a women’s summit in New York, Victoria Beckham confessed that despite her passion she didn’t know too much about the fashion industry when she started.




“I think I was quite innocent and naïve. There was a lot that I didn’t know. (But) I liked the fact because I probably would have been terrified,” she says, recalling her first showing in a New York hotel suite.

That honesty and freshness seems to have paid off . Beckham’s international fashion brand was valued at $130 million recently.

Looking back at the decade-long journey, Beckham said, “Knowing what I know now, would I have had the guts to do what I did then? Probably not.”