Victoria Beckham’s inaugural Paris Fashion Week presentation had more anticipatory fanfare than some royal coronations. After a two-year global Fashion Week hiatus, the ultimate crossover success story returned to the runway with a packed show, tassel-trimmed gowns, and the most subtly stunning beauty looks of the week. The light eyebrows at Victoria Beckham’s Spring/Summer 2023 show aren’t the fully bleached, snowy-white show-stoppers that feel, at this point, ubiquitous at fashion shows. Instead, they’re carefully calibrated to appear just a shade or two lighter than the models’ hair — and the rich brunettes in the lineup had their own brown brows left untouched by bleach to create a seamless color palette tailored to individual skin tones.

The show felt like a celebration of all things gossamer-light, from the breezy colors and fabrics in many of Beckham’s garments — even the very structured ones — to the glossy, gleaming skin on every model on the runway. In a sense, it feels like a reimagining of the “French girl beauty” mythos that continues to capture the imagination, a your-own-features-but-fine-tuned approach that translated in the show’s makeup and hair. Don’t call her triumphant return a comeback, though. There was no doubt Victoria Beckham could pull off Paris — and somehow, she makes it look as fuss-free as the looks parading up and down the Val-de-Grâce’s historic hallways.

To bring the cohesive beauty looks…