Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney, 2014

Stella Nina McCartney , OBE (born September 13, 1971 in London ) is a British fashion designer . McCartney started her own fashion company in 2001 , Stella McCartney Ltd. with headquarters in Haywards Heath , which operates a global network of boutiques high-priced and upscale retail clothing, shoes , handbags , accessories and perfume offers for women and since 2016 also menswear and since 2012 clothing for children.

biography

family

Stella McCartney is the daughter of Linda and Paul McCartney . Stella has two siblings and two half-siblings . The older half-sister Heather Louise (* 1962), sister Mary Anna (* 1969), brother James Louis (* 1977) and the younger half-sister Beatrice Milly (* 2003). Stella McCartney has been married to Alasdhair Willis, a British branding consultant, since 2003 and Hunter Boot's creative director since 2013 . The couple have four children: two sons and two daughters.

Career

Stella McCartney began designing clothes at the age of twelve. Her first model was a pink faux suede bomber jacket. In 1988 her father organized an internship for her at Christian Lacroix in Paris . After completing an art course at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communications in North Greenwich in the early 1990s, she studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London . During his senior year at college , McCartney interned with Edward Sexton, her father's Savile Row bespoke tailor. Her graduation collection, for which her father wrote the song Stella May Day as background music , was presented in 1995 by Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell . The London fashion boutique Tokyo bought the entire collection.

In 1997 McCartney became chief designer at the Parisian fashion house Chloé , a position in which Karl Lagerfeld had previously worked. McCartney brought Phoebe Philo , with whom she has had a close friendship since her apprenticeship at Central Saint Martins, as her assistant to Chloé. In 2000 McCartney designed the wedding dress for Madonna on the occasion of her wedding to Guy Ritchie .

McCartney left Chloé in 2001 to found her own fashion brand Stella McCartney with the Gucci group at the time , which is now part of the French luxury goods group Kering , in which she owns 50%. The first perfume, Stella , for women was launched in 2003. Since then, variations of the fragrance ( Sheer Stella , Stella Nude , Stella Rose etc.) and, in 2012, the women's fragrance LILY (as a homage to her deceased mother: Linda I love you ) have been released. A special feature of McCartney's collections is that she - as a committed environmental and animal rights activist and vegetarian - describes her fashion as " vegan ", even though wool or silk are sometimes used as materials. McCartney does not use leather or fur as a matter of principle . Her first men's fashion collection was announced for November 2016.

McCartney has been designing a sporty women's collection for Adidas under the name adidas by Stella McCartney since 2004 . At the end of 2005, H&M in Europe and North America, in cooperation with McCartney, offered selected and relaunched collection items from Stella McCartney's previous years at affordable prices. In 2008 the Stella McCartney portfolio was expanded to include a lingerie line. Between 2009 and 2011 McCartney designed children's collections for Gap Inc. In 2012, she added clothing for toddlers, girls and boys to her own branded range. Also in 2012, McCartney and Adidas equipped the British Olympic team with a 500-piece clothing collection. On March 26, 2013, McCartney was inducted into the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II as an Officer (OBE) for her services to the British fashion industry . The Stella McCartney collections have been presented twice a year at the Paris Fashion Weeks since 2001. Stella McCartney has collaborated with companies such as the Paris department store Printemps , Target Australia , LeSportsac and Disney since the mid-2000s .

Awards

• 1999 - British Designer of the Year Award, London
• 2000 - Designer of the Year Award, London / New York
• 2002 - Style Icon Award, London
• 2003 - Woman of Courage Award
• 2004 - Glamor Award for Best Designer of the Year, London
• 2005 - Organic Style Woman of the Year Award, New York
• 2007 - International Designer of the Year Award, London and Designer of the Year Award, London
• 2008 - Green Designer of the Year Award, New York
• 2011 - Red Carpet Award, London
• 2012 - British Designer of the Year, Brand of the Year and London Designer of the Year
• 2013 - International Designer of the Year at the Elle Style Awards, London
• 2014 - Woman's Leadership Award
• 2016 - British Brand of the Year, ELLE Style Awards

factories

• 2019: The Meat Free Monday Cookbook , ISBN 978-1906868697 (with Paul and Mary McCartney).

Web links

Commons : Stella McCartney  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the company Stella McCartney Ltd.
• Stella McCartney in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lunch with the FT: Stella McCartney , ft.com, July 20, 2012
2. ↑ The 100 most influential people (2014): Phoebe Philo , time.com, accessed: March 29, 2015
3. ↑ Stella Unplugged , vogue.de, May 3, 2012
4. ↑ Q&A with Stella ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stellamccartney.com, accessed: March 9, 2015 
5. ↑ Stella McCartney Is Making Men's Wear , nytimes.com, June 16, 2016
6. ↑ Stella McCartney at H&M - A designer imitates herself . At: faz.net , November 14, 2005
7. ↑ Stella McCartney collects OBE from HM the Queen , telegraph.co.uk, March 26, 2013