Victoria Beckham And The Story Of Her VERY Stylish Manchester Train Adventure

Inside Victoria Beckham’s VERY stylish Manchester adventure...

Victoria Beckham heading for Manchester
Victoria Beckham heading for Manchester
(Image credit: Twitter/VictoriaBeckham)

Inside Victoria Beckham’s VERY stylish Manchester adventure...

Struggling with heavy bags on a train – we’ve all been there. But Victoria Beckham? Well, yes, actually.

The multi-millionaire designer ditched the private transport yesterday in favor of a Virgin train – albeit, an empty carriage in first class.

Heading to Manchester’s Selfridges department store to promote the launch of her new collection, Victoria kicked off the trip with a hilarious Twitter snap of herself on the platform surrounded by several bursting bags, captioning it: "Which way to Manchester Selfridges?". Clearly not a light packer – a girl after our own heart…

But once on a 2 hour train, what is a girl to do? Update her 7.96 million twitter followers with an on-board selfie with personal hairdresser Ken Paves, that’s what…

Once at Selfridges, Victoria quickly changed into a undeniably gorgeous pleated black maxi skirt with glinting gold chain waistband teamed with a ribbed high-neck jumper, both from her own collection. Understated perfection, we love.

After signing hundreds of signatures and pleasing the hoards of in-store fans, Victoria tweeted a loving message to her hard-working team. Awwww…

But the hard work didn't end there. Rather than jump on the midnight train home, the famed designer and her team jumped in a taxi - which Victoria very kindly filled up at the petrol station…

All in a days work, eh?

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