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Victoria Beckham doesn’t think the Kardashians are "inspiring".

The 43-year-old fashion designer hopes her daughter Harper, five, will grow up to favor a natural look and modest clothing but is aware she will want to follow trends.

Asked if she will stop Harper wearing short skirts, she said: "Hopefully she’s not going to want to wear short skirts and dresses.

"When I used to want to wear short skirts and dresses, that’s how people were dressing. I’m not sure it’s the same now.

"Is it cool for young girls to wear tons of make-up these days? Surely the women that young girls look up to don’t tend to plaster themselves in make-up."

But asked about the vloggers who do contouring videos and the Kardashians, she added: "I try not to think about that as inspiring, to be honest."

And Victoria – who also has sons Brooklyn, 18, Romeo, 14, and Cruz, 12, with her husband David Beckham – tries to teach her daughter there are many more important things in life than appearances.

She told Britain’s ELLE magazine: "I think it’s [about] getting the balance right, not stifling them and then ending up with a child who rebels.

"I say to her, ‘Harper, it’s not who’s the prettiest girl in the class, it’s who is the nicest and most hard-working girl in the class.’

"I don’t like her to focus too much on her appearance."

Harper has a passion for ballet and chess, but also loves to draw.

Victoria said: "It was funny, the other day Harper said, ‘I’d like you to come to my gallery opening.’

"So I went into the lounge and she had coloured lots of pictures, pulled them out of the book and laid them out on the armoire, and she wanted us to come to the ‘gallery’.

"She had made little tickets and she was selling her pieces of art. Then, later, she said, ‘I’m just going to go into the lounge and do some yoga."

Victoria and David Beckham "respect" each other’s busy work schedule.

The 42-year-old fashion designer has been married to the 41-year-old former England football captain for almost 20 years, and the brunette beauty – who has Brooklyn, 18, Romeo, 14, Cruz, 123, and five-year-old daughter Harper with her spouse – believes the key to their long lasting relationship is "good partnership" and understanding the other’s hectic lifestyle but being able to take charge over their brood.

Speaking about her love life in the May issue of Elle UK magazine, the brunette beauty said: "David and I both respect that each of us are very, very busy; we are both running big businesses."

The style icon has revealed the couple try to make time for one another without their phones around when they can simply talk.

The fashion mogul explained: "But we do put the phones down, and sometimes we just talk."

And when Victoria is tied up preparing for Fashion Week, the tattooed hunk will look after their four children, which the entrepreneur believes is a sign of his "support" to her.

She said: "The children will be in New York and he’s already planned to take them to museums then out for dinner on Saturday night. That’s how you can show your support in a marriage, by saying, ‘You know what? I’ve got this.’ That’s what makes a good partnership."

Meanwhile, the former Spice Girls band member – who was known as Posh Spice in the group – has described her time with Geri Horner, Mel B, Mel C and Emma Bunton has being "so much fun", as it helped her to learn "an enormous amount" about production.

The ‘Wannabe’ hitmaker said: "Being in the Spice Girls was so much fun. I was never the best singer or dancer. I learned an enormous amount during that time, though: the staging, the lighting, the costumes–the package excited me."

David Beckham doesn’t "understand" his wife Victoria’s fashion choices.

The 41-year-old designer – who has Brooklyn, 18, Romeo, 14, Cruz, 12, and five-year-old daughter Harper with her husband – didn’t get upset when her spouse told her that her outfit made her look like an elf from their little girl’s school play as she thought it was a misplaced "compliment".

She said: "I took that as a compliment, but it’s true, there are definitely things I wear that he doesn’t understand."

And her occasionally unusual choices meant David recently praised her great outfit and suggested she dress like the old days more often, much to Victoria’s amusement.

She explained to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I was just wearing a sweater. I said, ‘Do you honestly think I’m going out like this? I haven’t finished getting ready.’ "

The former Spice Girls singer’s children are also critical of her sartorial choices.

She said:" The last time I went out, I wore tracksuit bottoms and a coat and Cruz said, ‘Mummy, you look really nice…’ Baseball caps and beanies, those are the only things really that the boys fight over."

While Victoria admits she has made some "regrettable" fashion choices in the past, she isn’t ashamed of them as she thinks they just make her more relatable.

She said: "I’ve learnt so much about how to get dressed over the years.

"Are there pictures of me in regrettable outfits? Plenty. But I think other women relate to that."

Meanwhile, the brunette beauty admitted her kids don’t think their parents are "cool" and Brooklyn even insists David drops him off at the end of the street so he doesn’t get embarrassed in front of his friends.

She said: "I said, ‘If David Beckham isn’t cool enough then what hope for the other dads?’ "