One thing the children of celebrities are going to do is get older. You can’t take this personally, I’ve learned. When it comes to Suri Cruise looking at colleges, Violet Affleck doing an excellent Jennifer Garner impression in that photo, or Apple Martin accompanying her mother, Gwyneth Paltrow, to a Call Her Daddy podcast taping, none of it has anything to do with you. We’ve watched Victoria Beckham’s kids grow up in the front row at her fashion shows, and now her youngest, Harper, just had a celebration for her 12th birthday, which is totally fine and even good! Time marches on! Celebrity children won’t stay the same age they were when you learned of their existence, and that’s okay. Fine even!
To celebrate this milestone, the Beckham family went out to dinner, and, being the daughter of Posh Spice, it’s only right that it was fashion themed. Victoria Beckham may have once struggled with choosing between “the little Gucci dress,” “the little Gucci dress,” or “the little Gucci dress,” but it seems like her daughter prefers a different Italian. To celebrate Harper’s birthday, which is actually Monday, the family took her to London’s Prada Caffè over the weekend. Her mother posted photos of the event on Instagram, writing, “Harper Seven is 12!!(almost)@Prada party for Harper Seven💕CHIC!!”
One would expect this kid, the youngest child and only daughter of one of the most important ‘90s couples, to be chic. Beckham famously had the most expensive wardrobe budget of her fellow Spice Girls, and she confirmed as much at the National Portrait Gallery’s “Vogue 100” exhibition in 2016. “I was always the one that loved fashion, and it was quite a result for me because the girls always used to get their clothes for free, because they were crap, and so there was a lot of budget for me to have my little Gucci dress,” she told the crowd at the time.
But Harper has had to strike out on her own, so the Prada dress it is. And it’s a love affair that’s apparently lasted the entirety of her life so far. In 2011, when Harper was merely two months old, Beckham took her to a New York Prada store during Fashion Week. “We went into Prada yesterday and she loved it,” she told the Daily Mail. “It was [as] if she was saying, ‘Mummy, I’m hom