Victoria Beckham has an infallible weapon when it comes to bewitching the hard-nosed Manhattan fashion crowd: the sight of her hubby David chasing their 18-month old daughter, Harper, through the backstage brouhaha before this show was enough to ignite a Twitterstorm of approving coos.

Yet even without the famous, photogenic family, Beckham has done quite enough to merit the fashion industry’s close attention. Her in-her-own-image range of sleekly fitted luxury clothes is now an established commercial success. And this collection should have excited the department store buyers every bit as much as the presence of David (who sat for the show alongside US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, prompting another Twitter eruption).

Once the lights came up, there were A-line skirt-shapes, wicked heels, drop shoulders, new trophy handbags (two of them) and plenty of lean but not-quite-tight, narrowly-belted and sophisticatedly slit dresses that saw her stay true to the fundamental Beckham fashion motifs.

The shoes, as per usual, were by Manolo Blahnik (these included a batch of fold-over patent-shine ankle boots that were stranded by snowstorm Nemo in Italy, and delivered to Beckham with only hours to spare).

Yet there was novelty too, notably her first-ever knitwear – more sleekly sexy dresses – in double-faced cashmere and some perkily yellow high-shine vinyl panels in gamine Mod minidresses.

Other fabrics included herringbone, checked tweed and camelhair which, alongside some wide Windsor collar tuxedo-inspired blouses and long, notch-lapel overcoats introduced a new, masculine element.

— Telegraph