If like us and you visit your local newsstand on the regular, you will no doubt be fairly used to Victoria Beckham greeting you, splashed across the covers of just about every major publication. From the covers of Vogue (Mrs. Beckham recently scored her 31st Vogue cover appearance via Vogue France) to the covers of Harper’s Bazaar (and everything else in between) – Victoria has covered them all. As a result, we aren’t at all surprised to see the fashion mogul make a return to the cover of Allure for December 2023. Almost a whole decade after her last, Victoria is welcomed back onto the beauty-focused magazine for a fourth time, as she poses for photographer Sølve Sundsbø in a glitzy Balenciaga dress.
Yet despite the seemingly best efforts of everyone on set of the cover shoot, members of theFashionSpot forums weren’t so smitten with the end result. “Why are they wasting money on this?” asked blueorchid.
“This is wrong. You shouldn’t be able to be 30 years in the spotlight unless you truly deserve it,” shared a disapproving KaKe.
Also far from impressed was forum member vogue28, commenting: “Sølve Sundsbø has produced some pretty incredible beauty portraits, not sure why this turned out to be such a disaster! I do like the coloring and the styling for a December cover but the spotlight effect doesn’t work and it feels somewhat… cold and sterile.”
A hit or miss of an Allure cover? Chime in and await more from the magazine’s December 2023 issue, here.
