Victoria Beckham Travels in Spandex Pantaboots—Because the Airport Is Her Runway

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were photographed riding through a departure lounge, bundled onto piles of monogrammed luggage. It was part of Sabato de Sarno’s debut , but it could just as feasibly have been an ode to the —arriving at Heathrow Airport in 1997 with more than a complete set of Louis Vuitton suitcases, or landing at Narita in Tokyo in coordinating Gucci blazers in 2003.David Beckham and his wife Victoria walk through New Tokyo International Airport on June 22, 2003.That is because the Beckhams understand the inherent glamour of being photographed in an airport: a clinical environment that scrambles with hierarchies, forcing people from across social stratas to queue and stare at massive TV screens together.

How, then, does someone maintain a sense of mystique when just about everything in those spaces—giant Toblerones, giant outposts of TGI Friday’s—is so devoid of charm?

In ’s case, the answer will always bubble up through clothing.Victoria Beckham at JFK.Yesterday afternoon, the designer was papped at JFK in face-swamping sunglasses, an hourglass jacket of her own making, and a pair of , which might also have functioned as a sort of in-flight .

It helped, of course, that Victoria Beckham had an assistant to carry her —which isn’t a luxury afforded to most travelers but is nonetheless a salient directive: please, unshackle yourself from the curse of airport “comfies.” There is glamour to be found in even the most tedious of surroundings.This article first appeared on By signing up you agree to our (including the ), our and to receive marketing and account-related emails from Glamour.