From Gucci Carrier Bags To The FROW, Follow Victoria Beckham's Fashion Journey

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In this week's issue of Grazia we break down what it really took to make Victoria Beckham's dream a reality, as last week she gave her most candid insight to date on how she went from Spice Girl to world-renowned designer.

Victoria Beckham guides us through her high fashion rise via her whizzy interactive timeline 'Five Years- The Victoria Beckham Fashion Story' on Skype, which is packed with videos, sound clips and galleries. The Victoria Beckham fashion journey kicks off with an adorable snap of a fringed VB in her school uniform, with Victoria telling us how she used to take a Gucci carrier bag to school and kicked off the 'two sock' trend at school.

We find out the story behind her Marc Jacobs campaign, her first ever FROWment and the little Gucci dress. Here are some of our highlights from 'Five Years - The Victoria Beckham Fashion Story' and remember to pick up this week's issue of Grazia to find out more...

The unlikely trends she started at school...

Victoria: 'I created a kind of fashion at school where you'd wear two pairs of socks, one pair on top of the other, because it kind of bagged around the ankle and proportionally, in my eyes, it changed how you looked in this horrific school uniform and it was a trend that kind of spread like wildfire. The first schoolbag that I had was actually a Gucci carrier bag… not a proper Gucci bag, a carrier bag that I would lug all of my schoolbooks to school in and… and I used that day in and day out until the bottom of the thing fell out.'

Should I wear a little Gucci dress... or a little Gucci dress?

Victoria: 'The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls that everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress was actually from Miss Selfridge, it wasn't really a little, black Gucci dress, I couldn't have afforded a little, black Gucci dress and Virgin Records certainly weren't gonna buy me a little Gucci dress.'

Her first FROWment...

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Victoria: 'When I was in the Spice Girls, I got invited to go to a Versace fashion show, and I'd never been to a fashion show. And Donatella Versace flew me on a private plane with my friend to Milan. It was all very glamorous and it was taking me into a completely different world. I've still got the dress that I wore, the black leather dress, and funnily enough I saw Donatella not too long ago – we judged the Woolmark awards in London. And I hadn't seen her for years and years and we had a chat whilst we were judging and she said, “Do you remember when you came to Milan?” I said “God, do I remember? Are you kidding? That was the most exciting thing I'd ever done”.

The red carpet inspired her first collection...

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Victoria: 'I'd spent a long time standing on a red carpet and I knew how women wanted to feel, how they wanted to look, and that clothes had to look good from a 360-degree angle, it wasn't good enough to look good from the front or from the back because you know you'll get photographed from every angle.'

Marc Jacobs' fashion advice...

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Victoria: 'I remember having dinner with Marc Jacobs after I first started working on the collections, and I hadn't told him that I was working on a dress collection, because I felt embarrassed. I mean this was Marc Jacobs, somebody that I have an enormous amount of respect for, and have done for many, many years, and to him, I was a Spice Girl, and I was married to David Beckham. I didn't wanna tell Marc Jacobs I was working on a collection of ten dresses. And then when he found out, he said, ‘Why haven't you told me?' I said I feel embarrassed, you're Marc Jacobs, you know, I don't wanna turn round to you and say that I'm, designing dresses. And he just said, ‘All you have to remember is it has to be the best quality, then people can say they don't like it, but no one can say it's not good'

Juergen tells the story behind THAT Marc Jacobs campaign...

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Juergen Teller: 'My strength of being a photographer is to letting the other person live. I respond or need to input off the subject, and I let them be. “With the Spice Girls, she was a product. And I thought, products sell. So she sells. For me, like perfumes, and handbags, and shoes, these are [the] kinds of products that shift these fashion companies, not so much the clothes itself. And that’s why we had this idea to build this oversized carrier bag where you buy the clothes and put her in it. I think it shocked a lot of people when the pictures came out. First of all how powerful the pictures were in itself and the idea of what a fashion advertising photograph can be in the first place. So it worked on many, many levels. It helped marc, it helped me, it helped me, it helped her. I had so many people telling me it changed their idea of what victoria beckham is – I think I had a massive influence in that.'

Victoria's pre-collection nerves...

'I felt really anxious, sick, nerves like I’ve never had nerves before like I’d worked really hard on this collection. I remember the night before I was downstairs with a florist in a pair of hotel slippers at about 4 o’clock in the morning – redoing the flowers because I didn’t like the way that the flowers looked.'

See Victoria Beckham's style evolution below...

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