Victoria Beckham finally made it into American Vogue! Alas, it is not a cover. But I’m sure Posh feels this is a step in the right direction. Today it’s a lengthy feature about the success of her fashion lines, maybe in a year it will be a cover profile. I quite like the Craig McDean photo of Posh – she looks young! You can read the whole Vogue profile here – it’s a really nice piece. Posh seems like a very level-headed woman who is doing what she loves. Here are some highlights:

Posh uses Tracy Anderson: She is perching her daughter, five-month-old Harper Seven Beckham, on one hip, but truth to tell there isn’t much of a perch; Victoria retrieved her finely honed form after the birth of her fourth child (Harper joins her whimsically named brothers, Brooklyn Joseph, thirteen; Romeo James, nine; and Cruz David, seven) via a strenuous workout regimen with the fitness guru Tracy Anderson, to whom Gwyneth Paltrow introduced her. “I worked out a lot,” says Victoria. “I ran a lot. I did it six days a week. I become quite obsessive when I get into something,” she adds.

Her design evolution: “At first, I wanted clothes that people would associate with me,” she says. “I was probably a little bit more self-conscious then—I was afraid to wear things that weren’t super-supertight. In those days, I wore a lot of corsetry. That was a sign of my own insecurities. By season three or four, I started doing a lot more research about things that I didn’t like. And I started challenging myself. Now that I feel more confident, creatively I feel more satisfied. It doesn’t have to be tight. I love working with volume and draping away from the body.” Her newly launched Victoria line allows for further experimentation. It is “easier, a little more relaxed,” she explains. “It’s the other half of my wardrobe.”

She likes it streamlined: “I’ve always had to make the best of what I’ve got,” she tells me. “I’ve never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model [she is five feet four], so therefore I want to create an illusion. People always think I’m taller than I am—not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.”

They barely live at Beckingham Palace: Although the Beckhams have a sprawling neo-Georgian manse two hours’ drive north in the Hertfordshire countryside (the British press facetiously refers to it as Beckingham Palace), Victoria and Harper have decamped to the Savoy. “It’s too much time to be spending in the car,” Victoria explains. “Four hours a day when I could be being productive!”

Skyping in her pajamas at her LA home: “That’s the good thing about living in L.A.,” she notes. “I’ll work early in the morning and then I’ll work late at night, but once England and New York go to bed, I have a little bit of time here. David and I make sure our schedules revolve around the kids. Because we are really focused on what we do workwise, it allows us to be balanced.”

Winning a design award: In 2011, Victoria was nominated for the British Fashion Council’s Designer Brand award (fellow nominees included Tom Ford, Stella McCartney, and Burberry).“When they read my name, I literally felt like my heart was going to jump out of my body,” she tells me, adding that this accolade meant so much more to her than any of her music awards. “I’m so appreciative of my past. I respect all the girls and really enjoyed what I did then, but this is what I love to do. I didn’t plan on getting up in front of the whole British fashion industry and not keeping my cool, but I was overwhelmed; I cried three times.”

Not moving to Paris: The New Year has dawned, and I’m in Los Angeles to experience a slice of Victoria’s Los Angeles life. Before Christmas, Victoria had no idea whether her family would be uprooted and moved to Paris, where David was being courted by the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team, or staying put in Los Angeles, which she loves. “I’m definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person,” she says. “Which is why I love living in America.” By the New Year, the decision had been made; the family will stay in Los Angeles. “It would have been fun for David to play in Europe again—he’s not getting any younger,” says Victoria. “And Paris would have been very exciting for me, career-wise, but we came to the conclusion that it’s all about the children—they’re the most important people here. Also, David came here to raise the profile of soccer in America; I’m really proud of him, but his job is not done yet.”

Victoria is a committed soccer mom. “Other than Fashion Week, I’ve never missed anything,” she says. “Someone once asked my son Cruz, ‘When’s your birthday?’ and he told them, ‘It’s just after Fashion Week!’”

[From Vogue]

That Cruz story is particularly adorable, isn’t it? The Vogue article is worth reading just for the description of Posh and Becks’ amazing LA house. She describes how she decorated everything before David came to LA, and it’s all pretty amazing.

Last thing – Posh cooks! Allegedly. Posh tweeted the photo below and claimed that she cooked all of that for her son’s school’s “International Food Day”. Rii-ight.

Photos courtesy of Craig McDean/Vogue, Posh‘s Twitter and WENN.