Stella McCartney

Profession: Fashion Designer
Place/Date of Birth: London, 13 September 1971
Associated with: Sir Paul McCartney

Stella’s Second Life protest - 12 July 2007
Stella McCartney and Peta are co-hosting the first worldwide virtual anti-fur protest in Second Life.

The designer has teamed up with the animal rights organisation to bring awareness to the cause in a peaceful way.

At 7pm, there will be an outdoor celebration on a dedicated island - The Stella McCartney-Peta Island - where the protest will take on its own life.

The island will feature a lake, picnic tables and Linda McCartney mini veggie burger stalls, a "live" DJ booth and information tree-houses. It will be open until July 29.

Visitors attracted to the event will be able to donate money to the cause from inside the 3-D world. They will also be invited to come up with the best anti-fur slogan and will go away with a goodie-bag full of anti-fur accessories.

Stella says: "Sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of humour on serious subjects."

Peta President Ingrid E Newkirk added: "We are always looking for new ways to raise awareness about the extreme suffering that animals endure on fur farms and in cruel steel-jaw traps in the wild, so when Stella came up with this idea we were on board from the beginning."

Stella’s vests set to rock festival - June 16 2007
Stella McCartney has designed a limited edition vest for this year’s Glastonbury Festival.

She has teamed up with Oxfam and all money raised from sales will go to the charity.

The fashion designer took the 70s outfits worn by her former Beatle father and late mother Linda as inspiration.

The vests will be available exclusively from the Oxfam/Stella McCartney stall in The Park, a new area of the Glastonbury site, during the festival next week.

McCartney has produced 5,000 and they will sell for £30 each.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said: "Stella has a long-standing relationship with Glastonbury and has been coming to the festival for many years, so it’s great for us to have this opportunity to work together.

"People at Glastonbury can get their hands on a genuine collector’s item and - even better - all the proceeds go to Oxfam, which is a charity we’re very close to."

David McCullough, director of trading at Oxfam, said: "Oxfam shops have been part of the nation’s wardrobe since 1947, and with Stella backing us through one of her fantastic designs it’s something cutting-edge in your collection that also helps us fight poverty."

The Glastonbury Festival begins on Friday.

Oxfam will have four stalls across the site and aims to raise £50,000 over the weekend.

Baby girl for Stella - Dec 13 2006
Stella McCartney has given birth to a baby girl. Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis is the second child for Sir Paul McCartney’s fashion designer daughter and her husband of three years, former magazine publisher Alasdhair Willis.

The couple already have one son, Miller, who is two on February 25.

Bailey, who was born on December 8 in London weighing 7lb 14oz, according to spokesman Stephane Jaspar, is the fourth grandchild for Sir Paul.

The former Beatle has two grandsons, Arthur, seven, and Elliot, four, from his 37-year-old photographer daughter Mary.

Stella has given her new daughter the second name Linda after her mother, who died of breast cancer in 1998.

The 35-year-old is an acclaimed designer who received the VH1/Vogue Designer of the Year award in 2000.

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Biography

Stella McCartney was born in 1972, the daughter of ex-Beatle Sir Paul and Linda McCartney. She first hit the headlines herself in 1995, when she graduated from London’s Central St Martins College of Art & Design. Her graduation show, attended by her super-famous parents, featured pals Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss modelling her clothes on the catwalk.

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
January 2008