Job for the boy...Victoria employs Brooklyn as her photographer – weeks after axeing third of staff
NEVER shy of promoting Brand Beckham, fashion designer Victoria has raised eyebrows by employing teenage son Brooklyn to photograph her new luxury clothing line.
The 19-year-old’s appointment comes only four months after Victoria was forced to make a third of her staff redundant.
About 60 workers lost their jobs after new investors ordered a review of Victoria Beckham Ltd, which lost £8.5million last year.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that months after dropping out of a photography course in New York, the oldest child of David and Victoria is on the family payroll to oversee his mother’s advertising campaigns.
Former Spice Girl Victoria, 44, has a high regard for Brooklyn’s ability as a photographer and his first big project was to snap her lucrative collaboration with Reebok, called the Merch Collection, earlier this summer.
A source close to the Beckhams told the MoS: ‘Brooklyn snapping this new campaign has raised a lot of eyebrows around the industry because he is so young and very inexperienced. But Victoria doesn’t care, it’s fantastic experience for him.
‘It is her dream to have Brooklyn working for her. She trusts his eye and loves the fact he’s young. She continually asks for his thoughts on her designs and how they are presented.’
Victoria took to Instagram to praise Brooklyn, saying how happy she was to see her collection through ‘his eyes’.
In 2016, Burberry came under fire for giving him its Brit Collection campaign to photograph, with many claiming he got the job only because of his name. Last year, Brooklyn released a book, As I See It, featuring pictures he had taken of his life.
Last September he began a four-year course in photography at the world-renowned Parsons School of Design in New York, but left because he was reportedly homesick.