Romeo Beckham: Fashion Prodigy
Fashion students everywhere, listen up!
There's a new kid in town and he's going to put you all to shame; you might as well hang up your shears and tape measures and go and do maths... or something equally as boring (sorry dad, your fellow mathematicians and number-crunchers, but I had to use something far less glamorous than fashion as an example).
Word on the street is that the only qualification you need to get your own high profile range these days is a footballer dad, ex-Spice Girl-turned-alleged-fashion-designer mum, and a collective brand name behind you. Know who I'm talking about yet?
Yeah. I bet you do.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art though Romeo? Oh, right over there designing your brand new range of Sunglasses, under your brand logo RB.
Yes guys and girls, Romeo Beckham is now a designer. Of sunglasses to be precise. Well, I say, what a talented kid he must be. An absolute fashion prodigy in fact - I mean, what other 8 year old do you know who has ever managed to design, let alone launch into the marketplace, their own range of Sunglasses? Or anything for that matter? AND (here's the best part) without any training?
No seriously, I'm actually asking here... no one? Nope? Can't think of one single kid? Not even a 9 year old? Hmmmm funny that.
I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical, or negative about the pre-empted success of a child who already has everything anyone could ever want as the sprog of two of the most famous and wealthy celebs in the world, but you know.
I mean, first mum Victoria decides that her love of fashion and network of fashion designer friends automatically means she can be a designer in her own right (whilst the rest of us spend a fortune getting trained at university and end up in a job entirely unrelated having not even had a door open to be able to shut it in our faces in the industry. Oh and getting into debt for the privilege, which, by the way, we're still struggling to pay off years after), and now, just because our little Romeo likes to wear lots of designer sunglasses that mummy and daddy have no qualms about paying over the odds for, we all decide that qualifies him to be a designer too. Well fancy that.
And hey, why stop there when he can get little Suri Cruise and Gordon Ramsay's sprogs involved too?
Like I said, let's all just hang up our shears and tape measures and let the celebs do the designing if they're that uber-talented. Yeah. Note to the fashion and retail industry here: when we're all walking around dressed like Jordan or Kerry Katona because no one else has been given a break, don't say I didn't warn you!
This industry really does go a little silly at times. But then dare I say it, it is all about the money... and lining brand Beckham's pockets!
Never has the phrase "it's not what you know, it's who you know" been more appropriate.
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