Stella McCartney

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

Stella to move to Golborne Road - 13/07/01
Stella McCartney is rumoured to be purchasing the former chapel on Goldbourne Road with the intentions of converting it into a catwalk and work space.

The chapel which has been used as a second hand furniture store for the past few years, was reportedly snapped up just days ago, when the current tennant was asked to remove his belongs and vacate the building with five days. A close friend of Stella said: "Originally Stella was looking for property a little off the beaten track, but this particular property just caught her attention, it is a vast open plan building with plenty of space for conversion - I am sure she has great plans for it." Only two months ago Stella planted a bombshell on the design house Chloe when she announced her move to Gucci. Her new Golbourne Road studio space is rumoured to be the new creative space within which she can start to plan and work her magic on the Gucci label.

Stella broody - 21/05/01
There must be something in the air, first Kate now Stella who has gone on record saying that she wants to have children would be prepared to give up fashion to do so. The British designer, 30, says that she wants to follow the lead of her mother Linda in being a ’dinner-on-the-table mum’. ’I’ve inherited her love of cooking, and I very much want to be married and have children one day,’ says the daughter of the former Beatle Paul McCartney. ’I’d rather not do fashion if it meant that I couldn’t have a family.’ Only a month ago, Stella announced that she was leaving French fashion house Chloe to launch her own clothes label with Gucci. What I want to know is who will be the father?

Stella hypocrite? - 16/05/01
Karl Lagerfield lashes out on designer Stella McCartney calling her a hypocrite over her campaigning for animal rights

Stella McCartney, the designer and animal rights advocate, has been accused of hypocrisy over animal rights issues by fellow designer Karl Lagerfeld. The row surrounds a short film, supported by Stella, which depicts the brutality of animal slaughter; the one-minute mini-feature openly attacks fashion labels like Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior and, even Stella’s new backer, Gucci, for their use of fur and leather. The short will feature appearances by Stella’s friends, Jude Law and wife Sadie Frost, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and George Michael. While animal rights activists are excited about the campaign, designer Karl Lagerfeld said: ’Oh, please, how can she be in business with Gucci while posturing in this overly dramatic way? It’s grotesque. If she finds their reliance on fur and leather so objectionable, why does she take their money and trade on their reputation to advance her own career... It’s deeply hypocritical of her and she’s making both herself and Gucci look ridiculous.’ The designer added: ’Everyone knows Gucci has made zillions of dollars by working with leather. When she [Stella] signed with them, she closed the chapter as far as holding these sort of scruples with any kind of credibility.’ Karl Lagerfeld’s remarks were reported on today’s Fashion Wire Daily.

Big Brother watching Stella -10/04/01
Stella McCartney has apparently agreed to be in a fly- on- the- wall TV style documentary. Stella has said to put her trust in director Geoff Wonfor, who made The Beatles Anthology in 1995, we all know her dad was in the Beatles!!

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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