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ver shoes, Victoria Beckham deliberates designer; expect to see Blair Waldorf modeling a Victoria Beck-
like Goldilocks, but in reverse. Instead of ham original this fall.
finding fy being a Beckham says this development is more exciting than years at
word entirely absent from her lexicon— the top of the pops. Despite rumors of acting ambitions—“rub-
she appears to search for the pair that could bish,” she says—the 35-year-old has proclaimed her days as a per-
land her in traction. “I don’t want anything former over. Not that she’s ruling out guest spots, such as stepping
middle-of-the-road,” she says, scanning in as a guest judge on next season’s American Idol , but “I’m very
the selection before seizing a Nina i realistic,” she says. “I know my boundaries—I know what I’m good
bootie with a platform toe pletely at and what I’m not good at.”
O heelless back. It creates a not-quite-human Her calling, she says, is fashion, an ambition that has been
silhouette, as if the wearer were standing en “a lifetime in the making.” Beckham is on a mission to be taken
pointe—or were equipped with an elegant seriously as a designer. To the surprise of some, her line, now in
set of hooves. Middle-of-the-road? In these its third season, is elegant, restrained, almost maniacally well-
shoes, most women couldn’t get off the curb. Beckham—now six constructed—clothing built to last, as she hopes the line itself
inches taller than her usual 5'6"—trots across the floor . will. Rather than staging runway shows, she presents each collec-
“What d’you think, Romeo?” she asks, ruffling her seven -year- tion in intimate, hotel-suite appointments at which she talks her
old son’s h