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High-end bespoke cars are currently all the rage, I tell her, so this is very timely. "Wow, get me... who'd have thought?" she says, a little coquettishly and a lot mischievously.
McGovern describes Victoria as a "real detail merchant, who effectively became a member of the team, and worked with incredible focus". She collated mood boards, filled with fashion, film, art, architecture and even aeronautical reference images. "There is a consistency of tone," McGovern claims, "and I think you see that in everything Victoria does. Her Evoque is sophisticated, pared back, clean."
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"David is a great businessman. Yes, we're married, but we're also in business together. David has an incredible business brain; he's very bright, very ambitious and he has big plans himself. He has a great eye, he buys nice cars and he's got great taste."
But so, it seems has Mrs Beckham. The 200 Victoria Beckham Evoques slated for production have already sold out. If Land Rover wants to silence the critics, it can just flash the profits.
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"What I love about Range Rover is that there's no other car I think you could use to arrive at the red carpet, then head off to the country in," Victoria adds. "I wanted people to be able to see the quality and the luxury, and to feel it as well. Something that worked for men and women, something that was cool, but not too try-hard."
Does she understand why this might be a tough sell for some people? [pause] "Look, I'm not pretending to know more than I know. As I say, I came to this from a naive place. This is my taste; this is what I like... Above all, I wanted it to feel real.
"You know, I'm not just messing around here," she says emphatically. "I'm trying to build a serious business, and I have to stay true to myself. I have to build this business the right way; I don't want to run before I can walk. I'm so proud of everything I did with the Spice Girls - I really am. But this is my passion. This is what I've always wanted to do, and I think I've found an arena I can compete in, in my own little way.
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During one of their visits to Land Rover's design HQ, David Beckham was apparently rather keen to get hold of an in-car iPod connector, "otherwise Victoria will start singing". Despite being one fifth of the Spice Girls, the most successful girl band of all time, even Victoria Beckham herself never claimed to have the pipes of, say, Aretha Franklin, so much so that it's a running joke between her and husband. Now the former super-WAG turned award-winning fashion designer fancies herself as a bloody car designer. Has the world finally gone mad? Well, no actually. Allow me to explain.
Words: Jason Barlow
This article originally appeared in the June 2012 edition of Top Gear magazine
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