The Beckhams are up to their old tricks again. In celebration of their 23rd wedding anniversary, David and Victoria Beckham are currently on a Venice getaway. Photographed on a gondola trip down one of the city’s windy canals, Becks and his better half sported matching yellow outfits: he in a yellow T-shirt and white trousers, she in a lemon-hued dress and white strappy sandals. Victoria even took to Instagram to note the consciously matched-up outfits, sharing a photo of the two with a caption that reads, “Still matching 23 years later.”
Since the beginning of the Beckhams’ highly publicized relationship in the 1990s, the world-famous couple has been doubling up their looks, and it’s arguably what they’re most famous for. In 1999, at the height of Beckham-mania (Victoria was about to start recording a third Spice Girls album and Becks had just helped Manchester United claim English and European championships), the couple stepped out in matching leather looks. Designed by Versace, the shiny and sweaty outfits have spawned a series of other celebs to get paired up—where do you think Brit and J.T., Kim and Kanye, and Kourtney and Travis got the idea?
But that was just the first instance of the couple’s doppelgänger dressing. For the 2003 MTV Movie Awards they sported iced-out looks: D.B. in a white suit and dazzling diamonds, and V.B. in a floor-length crystal-embellished gown. For their nuptials in 1999 they wed in coordinated cream before humorously changing into magenta to cut their cake (who can forget that gigantic and totally OTT machete?).
Last year Victoria actually addressed the couple’s matchy-matchy style when she appeared on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “We didn’t do it that much, but every time we did, it was very well-documented and will just not leave me alone, let me tell you,” she joked. “It just seemed like a really good idea at the time, you know? It really did. I think it was a naivete then. We didn’t know about fashion. We were just having fun with it, which, to be honest with you, is kind of the way it should be.”
If that’s how you get your marriage to last over two decades, however, we’re sold.
This article first appeared in British