Stella McCartney

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

A right mare for the ’neigh’-bours - 17/03/03
Animals rights campaigner Stella McCartney has decided to set up her new Mayfair shop right alongside a gun manufacturer and hunting specialist.

Holland & Holland, who have been established since 1885, are rumoured to not be pleased with Stella being a next-door neighbour. Apparently Stella has even put a huge photo of a horse prancing about on the boardings covering her new store. It will be interesting to see how these neighbours get along, as when you have good neighbours you have good friends, as the theme tune goes.!

Stella makes the grade - 03/03/03
Fashion designer and Notting Hill face Stella McCartney is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Dundee.

Stella will receive the honour at a graduation ceremony for design students in London in July. The designer with the Gucci group is due to attend the ceremony at the city’s Estorick Gallery and be awarded an LLD by Chancellor Sir James Black.

Not furry good - 31/12/02 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Stella McCartney hates Madonna wearing fur and tries to put her off. Stella say, "She was wearing a coat made from lambs that hadn’t been born. So I said, ’I didn’t know you ate foetuses,’ and she was like ’Eeew!’ I haven’t seen her in it since."

Stella McCartney plans to build wildlife sanctuary - 19/11/02
Stella McCartney has applied for permission to build a wildlife haven and an energy-saving water purification plant at her farm. She bought the £1.2 million, 200-year-old working farm in Hereford and Worcester last year. The designer’s request involves a proposal to plant 2,000 willow reeds and many varieties of shrubs in and around the 271-acre site. Stella intends to spend £500.000 on the project according to press reports.

Stella is Starbucks - 13/11/02
Has Stella McCartney angered her Notting Hill neighbours again? It rather seems as though she has, not by having a roof-top shower this time but by buying an old church to convert it into her studio...

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Absolute Stella - 23/10/02
Do you fancy drinking a Stella?

An Absolut Stella that is - as Stella McCartney has put her name to a new Absolut vodka cocktail which is the mojito (vodka, rum and mint). The ultra cool Stella was at the launch for the cocktail in LA but appeared to be unimpressed with the party- which seems to be her trademark. She was quoted as saying she didn’t want a big flash party as she ’can’t stand the idea of VIP rooms’. Some of us can afford to be choosy.

Stella launches her first fashion store in New York - 23/09/02
Stella McCartney has launched her first fashion store and admitted she was "terrified" about the enterprise. The 4,000 sq ft shop in the trendy meat-packing district of Manhattan will stock the designer’s ready-to-wear line, shoes and accessories. The 31-year-old chose British architectural firm Universal Design Studios to create the shop’s interior which features hand-painted textiles, sculptured walls and secret hideaway dressing rooms. The sign on the front says simply ’Stella McCartney’. "I really want it to be where just women can come, even if they don’t really like the clothes," she said.

Stella visits Liverpool Cancer hospital - 05/09/02
Stella McCartney and her older sister Mary are planning to visit a breast cancer unit dedicated to their late mother Linda on Friday.

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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