STELLA MCCARTNEY
Name: Stella McCartney
Birth: date 13 September 1971 London, England
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer.
She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife, rock
photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney.
Stella McCartney was born in London, the second child of former Beatle Sir Paul
McCartney and Linda McCartney. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers:
both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl,
McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their pop group Wings, along
with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul
McCartney), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her
father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As his
daughter was being born by emergency caesarean section, Paul sat outside the
operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel." Wings
toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.
Despite their fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal a
life as possible so Stella and her siblings attended the local state school in
East Sussex. McCartney has said that while attending state school, she was a
victim of bullying, as well as a bully herself.
Stella McCartney became interested designing clothes at age 12, when she made
her first jacket. Three years later, she interned for Christian Lacroix, working
on his first fashion design collection, honing her skills on Savile Row for a
number of years.
She studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in
the early 1990s. Her graduation collection in 1995 was modelled by friends and
supermodels Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free – at the
graduation runway show. The collection was shown to a song penned by her famous
father, called "Stella May Day." The show made front-page news, and the
entire collection was sold to Tokio, a London boutique. The designs were
licensed to Browns, Joseph, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus.
In 1998 she designed her sister Mary's wedding dress for her wedding to
television producer Alistair Donald.
As a strict vegetarian, McCartney does not use fur or leather in her designs and
supports PETA. Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her
"no animal" policy; for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable
for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. Her father is also known for supporting
PETA by protesting against designers who use animal fur, and those who wear it.
However, Stella will use wool, silk, and other animal-derived fabrics in her
designs.
Name: Stella McCartney
Birth: date 13 September 1971 London, England
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer.
She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife, rock
photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney.
Stella McCartney was born in London, the second child of former Beatle Sir Paul
McCartney and Linda McCartney. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers:
both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl,
McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their pop group Wings, along
with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul
McCartney), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her
father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As his
daughter was being born by emergency caesarean section, Paul sat outside the
operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel." Wings
toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.
Despite their fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal a
life as possible so Stella and her siblings attended the local state school in
East Sussex. McCartney has said that while attending state school, she was a
victim of bullying, as well as a bully herself.
Stella McCartney became interested designing clothes at age 12, when she made
her first jacket. Three years later, she interned for Christian Lacroix, working
on his first fashion design collection, honing her skills on Savile Row for a
number of years.
She studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in
the early 1990s. Her graduation collection in 1995 was modelled by friends and
supermodels Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free – at the
graduation runway show. The collection was shown to a song penned by her famous
father, called "Stella May Day." The show made front-page news, and the
entire collection was sold to Tokio, a London boutique. The designs were
licensed to Browns, Joseph, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus.
In 1998 she designed her sister Mary's wedding dress for her wedding to
television producer Alistair Donald.
As a strict vegetarian, McCartney does not use fur or leather in her designs and
supports PETA. Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her
"no animal" policy; for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable
for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. Her father is also known for supporting
PETA by protesting against designers who use animal fur, and those who wear it.
However, Stella will use wool, silk, and other animal-derived fabrics in her
designs.