Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney, OBEis an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatles member Paul McCartney and American musician, photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth13 September 1971
CityLondon, England
sports running technology
I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.
running thinking work-out
Running is a huge category for us. To be able to run to work and have lightweight, breathable, windproof materials you can chuck in your bag that work on technical level but also on a lifestyle level are really important to me. I work out - and I think most people do - and I want to encourage women and inspire them in a way that fits in with their lifestyle.
running thinking work-out
I run a lot. If I don't have time to go to the gym or don't have time to work out properly, I will go for a quick run. I think running is a great way to stay fit, and I really concentrate on fitting into a realistic urban lifestyle.
clothes felt proud wrong
I've always felt there was something wrong about making high-priced clothes - and I am really proud of the quality.
afford audience collection designs great love people speak stella wider
This one off collection is a 'best of' Stella McCartney. So many people come up to me and say 'I love your designs but could never afford them'. This collaboration is a great way to speak to a wider audience and let them get to know me and my designs better
When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.
kids maybe overly paranoid
I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.
age
There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.
happens incredible people strike
If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.
car found goes past pollution protect pure
I found that when you have a baby, they are so pure and untouched that a car goes past and you look at all the pollution and you really want to protect them.
lived six
For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.
Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.
buy call crap dug loved shoes sort talk weekend woman
She would have loved some of the things I've done recently. She would have loved all my veggie shoes and she would have dug the Adidas thing. She'd have loved the perfume. It's a bummer. At the weekend I really wanted to call her, talk crap down the phone. I didn't have anything to say, just sort of babble. She was the classiest woman I know. And class? You can't buy class, you know?
absolute felt
I have never felt like this before. It's just fantastic, an absolute dream.