Fan or not, you already know the basic beats of Victoria Beckham’s story: her working-class beginnings (let’s not get into that Rolls-Royce snafu), her Spicy “Wannabe” era, the smile-free years of being tailed by paparazzi, her foray into fashion. All the while, as she’d evolved from “the little Gucci dress, the little Gucci dress, or the little Gucci dress” to showing her own designs in Paris ( bien sûr !), her 26-year marriage to David Beckham has been a fixed point of public fascination.

What’s revealed in her candid new Netflix documentary , however—through interviews with the likes of Donatella Versace and Tom Ford, and some deeply erotic cutaways to David in his shaved-head, footballing heyday—is Victoria’s burning ambition and her repeated masterstrokes of self-branding. Youn

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