Simon Fuller's Business Partner, Victoria Beckham, is Crowned Queen of New York Fashion Week

LONDON, February 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

After a week of rave reviews, it's official: Victoria Beckham has been crowned queen of New York Fashion Week. After previewing her Autumn / Winter 2012 collection to a packed house at the New York Library on Sunday morning 12^th February, and with her husband David Beckham OBE, editor in Chief of American Vogue Anna Wintour OBE, and her long time business partner Simon Fuller, all looking on from the front row, the critics were unanimous in voting this the finest moment of her career as a fashion designer.

"Her strongest show yet" The Guardian

"In her insistence on developing slowly, and gradually earning respect, Mrs. Beckham has scarcely put a platformed-foot wrong" VOGUE.com

"Queen Victoria: How Mrs Beckham conquered fashion" The Guardian

"Her style is, season after season, more and more desirable and confident" Vogue Italy

"She has staked her claim and she owns this space" FT

With her ready to wear collection now stocked in over 300 retail outlets around the world, the Victoria Beckham business is now worth in excess of £30 million at retail, and with a launch of a new line, named 'Victoria by Victoria Beckham' going on sale this week, that value is only set to rise. It is a good news story for British creative industries, as her ready to wear collection is designed and is hand made by British businesses.

Simon Fuller, Victoria Beckham's long term business partner, comments: "Victoria and I are both proud Brits and it feels good to be building a creative British business that is flourishing on a global stage."

Today, 15^th February 2012, Victoria posed alongside Anna Wintour OBE and other British Fashion icons to launch the British Government's GREAT campaign. Sir Peter Westmacott, the UK's Ambassador to the United States, comments:

"As one of Britain's major fashion icons Victoria Beckham's involvement with the GREAT Campaign will bring even more attention to Britain's world renowned fashion designers, the magnificent range of shopping on offer and our distinctive British style."

About Simon Fuller

Simon Fuller is the most influential British entrepreneur on the global entertainment stage. Fuller's XIX Entertainment has made him the most successful British manager of all time with artists that include The Spice Girls, David Beckham, Andy Murray, Annie Lennox, Scotty McCreery, Lewis Hamilton, Lisa Marie Presley, Carrie Underwood, Will Young and others under his charge, and his role in creating and producing No.1 TV shows that include American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and Q'Viva The Chosen starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, has helped to make him the most powerful Brit in America.

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