Posh and down-to-earth

ONE could hardly reconcile the vision of Victoria Beckham, as she girlishly twirls a strand of her impeccably coiffed tresses while speaking in a clipped accent, with the bleached blonde, bulbous-breasted Posh Spice. The cleavage is still enviable, and tan a shade of deep mahogany, but the singer-turned-WAG-turned-fashion-mogul is the epitome of, well, actual poshness.

The 40-year-old stunner has been hushing critics ever since she unveiled her eponymous label six years ago through her refined and, in her words, "deceptively simple" designs. Earlier this month, she walked the red carpet of the Met Gala in a tiered column dress - a perfectly streamlined number she showed during a presentation at the Marina Bay Sands' ArtScience Museum last Saturday. Rather than resorting to over-the-top embellishments and second-skin silhouettes, the jet-setting mother of four obsesses instead on exquisitely finished pieces that fit into any smart wardrobe.

"To get such a stunning silhouette requires paying a lot of attention to the little details to enable a woman to put a dress on and feel so special," says Beckham, who was in town to launch her accessories line with designer accessories retailer On Pedder. "They make you think about posture and how you carry yourself."