From Manchester to Madrid and now Miami, the Victoria Beckham Fall 2021 RTW collection sees the designer tempering her fashion reinventions to her environments. “The way they dress here is so different to anything I’ve seen in my entire life. It’s just fantastic. It’s a less-is-more approach,” she said.

Rather than introducing new complex cuts or ambitious experimentation, familiar Victoria Beckham garments bore testimony to a certain studiousness: Prairie and flapper dresses were streamlined, her slinky long-sleeved everyday dresses were recut for a t-shirt-like ease, and tailoring looked as optimized for comfort as it must have felt. Within this process, Beckham retained the sculptural lines that distinguish her from the norm.

Layered with the pragmatic ‘market categories’ they talk about in commercial fashion, the collection was a candid exercise in customer activation. For anyone hankering for more pizzazz, there were those knee-high silver sparkle boots—reflected in dresses covered in sequins—and some rather subversive floral prints. In one instance, the latter clashed in a mad floaty dress that evoked some of Beckham’s more directional collections.

Beckham fused a military sensibility with her own, scattering various uniform elements around garments, and nailing a navy admiral’s coat with red contrast lining delicately and delectably framing every edge of it.