Stella McCartney's store in Beverly Hills Template:Citation needed File:Stella BevHills.jpg She was accompanied to Chloé by her assistant and friend Phoebe Philo, who later replaced her as design director. Let's hope she's as gifted as her father." Despite initial skepticism, McCartney's designs have enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. Lagerfeld was less than impressed with the house's choice, stating, "Chloé should have taken a big name. In March 1997 McCartney was appointed Creative Director of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. Stella does use wool, silk, and other animal-derived fabrics in her designs. Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her "no animal" policy for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. In 1998, she designed her sister Mary's wedding dress for her wedding to television producer Alistair Donald.Ī lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her designs. The designs were licensed to Browns, Joseph, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus. The collection was shown to a song penned by her famous father, called "Stella May Day." The show made front-page news, and the entire collection was sold to Tokio, a London boutique.
Her graduation collection in 1995 was modelled by friends and supermodels Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free – at the graduation runway show. She studied her foundation at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the early 1990s. Three years later, she interned for Christian Lacroix, working on his first fashion design collection, honing her skills working for Edward Sexton, her father's Savile Row tailor for a number of years. At age thirteen, she made her first jacket. Stella McCartney became interested in designing clothes as a youth. In 1997, she was appointed the Creative Director of Chloe in Paris. A signature style of sharp tailoring, natural confidence and sexy femininity was apparent in her first collection.
Career Beginning īorn and raised in London and the English countryside, Stella McCartney graduated from Central St Martins in 1995.
McCartney has said that while attending state school, she was a victim of bullying, as well as being a bully herself. As his daughter was being born by emergency caesarean section, Paul sat outside the operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel." Wings toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.ĭespite their fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal a life as possible, so Stella and her siblings attended local state schools in East Sussex, one of them being Bexhill College.
According to her father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As a young girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their pop music group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers (both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella). In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.Stella McCartney was born in Lambeth, London, England on 13 September 1971, the second child of Beatles bassist Paul McCartney and American photographer Linda McCartney. Veganism: "A philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude-as far as is possible and practicable-all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment.