Stella McCartney
- Profession: Fashion Designer
- Place/Date of Birth: London, 13 September 2020
Stella broody - 21/05/01
There must be something in the air, first Kate now Stella who has gone on record saying that she wants to have children would be prepared to give up fashion to do so. The British designer, 30, says that she wants to follow the lead of her mother Linda in being a ’dinner-on-the-table mum’. ’I’ve inherited her love of cooking, and I very much want to be married and have children one day,’ says the daughter of the former Beatle Paul McCartney. ’I’d rather not do fashion if it meant that I couldn’t have a family.’ Only a month ago, Stella announced that she was leaving French fashion house Chloe to launch her own clothes label with Gucci. What I want to know is who will be the father?
Stella hypocrite? - 16/05/01
Karl Lagerfield lashes out on designer Stella McCartney calling her a hypocrite over her campaigning for animal rights
Stella McCartney, the designer and animal rights advocate, has been accused of hypocrisy over animal rights issues by fellow designer Karl Lagerfeld. The row surrounds a short film, supported by Stella, which depicts the brutality of animal slaughter; the one-minute mini-feature openly attacks fashion labels like Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior and, even Stella’s new backer, Gucci, for their use of fur and leather. The short will feature appearances by Stella’s friends, Jude Law and wife Sadie Frost, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and George Michael. While animal rights activists are excited about the campaign, designer Karl Lagerfeld said: ’Oh, please, how can she be in business with Gucci while posturing in this overly dramatic way? It’s grotesque. If she finds their reliance on fur and leather so objectionable, why does she take their money and trade on their reputation to advance her own career... It’s deeply hypocritical of her and she’s making both herself and Gucci look ridiculous.’ The designer added: ’Everyone knows Gucci has made zillions of dollars by working with leather. When she [Stella] signed with them, she closed the chapter as far as holding these sort of scruples with any kind of credibility.’ Karl Lagerfeld’s remarks were reported on today’s Fashion Wire Daily.
Big Brother watching Stella -10/04/01
Stella McCartney has apparently agreed to be in a fly- on- the- wall TV style documentary. Stella has said to put her trust in director Geoff Wonfor, who made The Beatles Anthology in 1995, we all know her dad was in the Beatles!!
A bidding war has already broken out with all the major TV channels lining up for the rights to screen the programme, which promises to be a warts and all type programme. Stella has agreed to be followed by a camera crew 24 hours a day. They will capture the upheaval as she leaves French Fashion house Chloe to set up a new label with Gucci.
Stella sells her favourite little black dress - 05/04/01
A host of celebrities have donated their favourite slinky black dresses to raise tens of thousands of pounds for charity.
The star item - which could fetch up to £15,000 - is a black silk Chloe dress from Stella McCartney. It will be the centrepiece of an internet auction in aid of CARE International, which undertakes charity work in developing countries. The Chloe dress, owned by the designer herself, will go on sale on 12 April. . But fashionistas are salivating at the thought of getting their hands on the McCartney number. A spokesman said: ’It’s a lovely dress - the real star of the show. We hope it will raise a lot of money’. Her dress will be sold only on the final three days of the auction which ends on 15 April. The items can be seen at www.bid4betterworld.org.
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Unsurprisingly, the student show became front page news around the world and the entire collection was snapped up by London boutique Tokio. She launched her eponymous label the same year. Despite her new-found celebrity, McCartney had already served a long apprenticeship in fashion. At 15, she worked with Christian Lacroix on his first couture collection and later spent several years learning her craft on Savile Row. McCartney was appointed chief designer at the French couture house Chloë in March 1997. Succeeding Karl Lagerfeld in one of the most high profile posts in the industry, McCartney’s appointment was viewed by many as simply an astute publicity stunt on the part of Chloë’s owners, the Vendome group. However, her first collection for the house, shown in Paris in October 1997, quickly dispelled any doubts about her talent. Sensual and romantic, the collection teamed lacy petticoat skirts with fine tailoring and was hailed a triumph. Her delicate camisoles and Nineties updates of the Seventies trousersuit fast became the talk of the catwalk circuit.
The following season, Chloë execs proved that her efforts had not only raised the house’s profile, but had lifted its profits too. Following her mother’s death in April 1998, Stella took up her fight against the maltreatment of animals. A month later, during Fur Fashion Week, she teamed up with PeTA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - to release a video championing animal rights. In April 2000, she renewed her contract with Chloë, amid reports that she had turned down the offer of a position at rival house Gucci, because Gucci would have required her to work with leather. She may have torn up the grey carpets of her new office in Paris to make it of a parquet-floored home away from home; but, to Stella McCartney, there really is no place like it.
In fact, rather than move entirely from her beloved studio-flat in London’s W11, the Chloë designer has merely upgraded to a £695,000 white stucco, four-floor family house with a miniature roof terrace down the road. Her vibe is undeniably west London. Written in 2000
September 2007