Stella McCartney / Стелла Маккартни

March 3, 2005 -- AFP

Paris fashion: McCartney's feminine chic

New mom Stella McCartney offered her particular brand of feminine, urban chic for autumn-winter 2005-06, while Roberto Menichetti unveiled a sleek collection bursting in color at Celine.

"I'm so sorry I cannot be with you all today!" the 33-year-old McCartney wrote in her program notes, dedicating her collection -- on which she worked before giving birth -- to infant son Miller and her husband, Alasdhair Willis.

The British designer and daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney also thanked her design team, which was largely responsible for bringing her winter line to the catwalk in the Paris stock exchange building.

McCartney offered what she called "feminine clothing with attitude" -- the ultimate wardrobe for the urban warrior in London or New York, combining masculine tailoring with girlish flair.

For daytime, a khaki suit with a simple black cashmere v-neck sweater looked perfect for the boardroom. Oversized chunky knit tunic dresses in black or petal pink seemed ideal for a lazy Sunday afternoon of window shopping.

Ample belted coats fell attractively to the knee. A black and white houndstooth coat formed a bubble around the hips. For a bit of sex appeal, McCartney offered tight black faux leather boots laced up over the knee.

For evening, cocktail dresses in basic black, soft pink and crimson red ruled the day. Lunch-box handbags with thick chain handles are the must-have accessory for next winter.
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Stella: Don’t call me Daddy’s girl

As Sir Paul McCartney ruefully says, "Nobody is Beatle-proof", least of all his fashion-designer daughter Stella. At the age of 25, Stella McCartney became the new designer to the house of Chloe in April 1997, and her predecessor, Karl Lagerfeld, sniped, "I think they should have taken a big name. They did - but in music, not fashion. Let’s hope she’s as gifted as her father."

Now 33, McCartney is creative director of her Gucci Group-backed own label. She did not listen to her mother, Linda, who warned her: "It’s such a competitive, fickle world. Do you really want to do something where people judge you?"

And how they have. Even lowly British designer Jeff Banks had a go, calling her "just an amateur who has made it in the fashion world on the back of her dad’s money".

Last year, Gucci Group chief executive Robert Polet told McCartney and her stablemates Alexander McQueen and Nicholas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga that they had until 2007 to turn a profit.

Since Gucci bought 50.1 per cent of Stella McCartney for 6 million ($15.8 million) in 2001, the label has remained in the red. But this is a result largely of investment in New York and London stores. Sales of Stella McCartney increased by 50 per cent last year and she expects to turn a profit two years ahead of her deadline.

The knives have been out for McCartney since her graduation from Central St Martin’s fashion college in London in 1995. "I thought everyone hated me," she says of her remote attitude at fashion college. What they called arrogance she called shyness. Fellow St Martin’s students were furious when McCartney stole press attention when her friends Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modelled her graduation collection. McCartney snapped: "Other students ask their friends to model and I’ve asked mine."

Days after McCartney’s autumn/winter 2005 own-label collection was shown in Paris, the jury is still out on her bankability.

The Independent fashion writer Susie Rushton reported: "McCartney’s position on the fashion landscape has often seemed not to extend far beyond dressing her celebrity friends ... [but] the confident collection demonstrated how McCartney’s signatures have matured and become more convincing propositions."

The Guardian said, "After a chilly year or two on the sidelines, her look is being welcomed back", while the Daily Telegraph noted the absence of McCartney’s usual celebrity front row.

The reason for McCartney’s absence from the runway this season was the February 25 birth of her first son, Miller Alasdhair James Willis, with husband Alasdhair Willis. Vogue confounded the critics who said McCartney’s no-show was irrelevant - the inference being that McCartney is propped up by talented studio staff - by reporting that "Stella worked on and was able to complete the collection".

She was signing off outfits from digital photographs hours before she went into labour.

Stella McCartney has an ally in Donatella Versace who followed her late brother as creative director of the house and cannot quell rumours that she too is merely a figurehead. Unlike Versace, Stella’s private life is intentionally unglamorous. She says she’s a "really boring" country girl and is keen to emphasise her love for horse riding, walking and swimming, though it’s hard to imagine that your life is that boring when your best friends are Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Moss.

Chloe president Mounir Moufarrige’s shrewdness in appointing the 25-year-old McCartney was endorsed by a 500 per cent rise in profits and a booming press profile. Before her, Chloe was about as relevant in high fashion as Laura Ashley. McCartney and her Notting Hillbilly posse gave the label a hip replacement.

McCartney admits she designs clothes "me and my friends would like to wear". Her mixture of slinky lingerie and tomboy tailoring struck a chord with girls who didn’t want to be slutty or bourgeois. McCartney dedicated endless collections to her mother, Linda. Like her, McCartney is an animal-rights activist who will not work with fur or leather.

Karl Lagerfeld calls her principles "grotesque". "Everyone knows Gucci has made millions of dollars by working with leather," he says. "When she signed with them, she closed the chapter as far as holding these sorts of scruples with any kind of credibility."

McCartney is the kind of girl who squares up to controversy, blithely using Beatles music for early Chloe catwalk shoes and paying homage to her mother’s gypsy spirit. In 1999, a year after Linda’s death from cancer, McCartney finally snapped back about the relentless "Beatle’s daughter" barbs.

"When I would make a good drawing in primary school, it was because my Dad was famous. Or if I got a part in a school play, it was because Dad was a Beatle. What do I do? Do I become a smackhead and live off my parents’ fortune?"

To her credit, McCartney is never snapped falling out of nightclubs. This could be due to a "normal, idyllic childhood" when she would call herself Stella Martin to escape recognition.

Marriage seems to have mellowed McCartney’s ladette streak, and this is no bad thing. She can now admit she was "trying too hard" at Chloe when she emblazoned outfits with slang.

Though her latest show featured handbags decorated with horse brasses, McCartney’s look is now largely elegant and mature.

She is a good designer - but not a great one - who just happens to have a famous dad.

- INDEPENDENT

PHOTO^Pieces from Stella McCartney's autumn/winter collection.
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ONO PRAISES McCARTNEY'S DESIGNS

JOHN LENNON's widow YOKO ONO is a huge fan of STELLA McCARTNEY's designs, in spite of her tumultuous relationship with the style guru's father SIR PAUL McCARTNEY.

The Japanese singer and artist, 72, regularly buys Stella's clothes, and admits she treats the female fashion prodigy like a member of her family.

Ono says, "She's part of the BEATLES family, and I'm very proud of her.

"She has incredibly high taste and originality. I've been buying her clothes for years."

20/04/2005
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May 6, 2005 -- NY Times

Stella's designer Adidas

On Saturday the new 30,000-square-foot Adidas store will open in Soho at 610 Broadway, New York city (212) 529-0081.

Stella McCartney's sexy, perpetually sold-out sports line for women ($35 to $210) will be featured.

Unlike the Adidas Originals Store on Wooster that hawks old school, street-style gear, the Sports Performance store will showcase Adidas' new golden children: the Adidas by Stella McCartney apparel line, Mi Adidas technology, and the adidas_1, the world's first intelligent running shoe.

Now that Yohji Yamamoto's Y-3 Adidas line is in its sixth successful season, the company turns to McCartney's clout and talent to capture more of active wear's $39 billion market.

Sales of the around-$250 adidas_1 have no doubt been buoyed by a sweet video/commercial from Spike Jonze, featuring vocals by Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontwoman Karen O. And whether you're an athlete or not, the Mi Adidas section of the shop will allow you to customize your sneakers for fit and function and even choose colors and personalized monograms (the shoe arrives in the mail three weeks later). This is apparently the only place in New York to score all three: adidas_1 and Adidas by Stella McCartney have sold out elsewhere, and Mi Adidas is only available in-house.

Все еще вспоминаю статью, в которой говорилось о душевой кабинке на крыше дома Стеллы!!!

Stella McCartney in design collaboration with H&M
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Swedes switch to Stella for London cool

22.05.05


by Susannah Frankel


Marc Jacobs allegedly had his eye on the job. Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood both claimed it would be a mistake to turn it down.

Last week, however, Swedish high-street chain H&M announced that Stella McCartney would be the designer to follow in Karl Lagerfeld's footsteps and produce a collection for its stores.

"Designing a one-off collection for H&M is one of the most exciting and innovative ways to introduce my clothes to a broader range of women," McCartney says, in a press release.

The Lagerfeld range retailed from $19.90 to $149, a fraction of the price of either Lagerfeld's own line or the ultra-expensive collection he designs for the French fashion superpower, Chanel.

Lagerfeld, already famous in fashion circles, became a household name overnight, not least for an outburst in which he declared British women were too fat to wear his clothes.

"What I really didn't like was that some sizes were made bigger," he said of H&M's attempts to up-size his pencil-thin offerings to a British 14 and 16. "What I created was fashion for slim people."

H&M's marketing director, Jorgen Andersson called on Lagerfeld to apologise, but - perhaps predictably - the designer did no such thing. Andersson need have no fear over McCartney who refuses to use leather and fur for her collections, prizes the more "womanly" form and is rather more politically correct than her serpent-tongued predecessor.

The younger designer also has considerably more to gain. It's no secret that McCartney, who, in 2001, sold a 50 per cent stake in her company to the Gucci Group, is struggling to stay ahead financially. Her brand, Stella McCartney, is still small, compared with the majority of internationally recognised names she is now forced to compete with: names that include Gucci-owned Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen.

Gucci Group has set a deadline of 2007 for all three companies to break even - and the deal with H&M ensures McCartney receives a vital injection of cash and raises the profile of both her eponymous line and the collection she designs for adidas. For H&M's part, the tie-in with McCartney is the latest in a long line of carefully considered moves that has transformed it from a mainstream clothing supplier to a fashion force to be reckoned with.

Last month the chain, founded in 1947 and estimated to be worth $7.3 billion, spent millions on a fashion show in New York's Central Park with a 73m catwalk and 145 models, including the likes of Karen Elson and Jessica Stam who normally wouldn't get out of bed for anything less than Dolce & Gabbana or Christian Dior. At around the same time a deal with Elio Fiorucci was announced. The Italian designer's beach range goes on sale in 1000 H&M stores this summer.

McCartney's rock royalty status and cool London girl credibility is likely to be even more of a hit with H&M's core female market, however, a fact that the powers-that-be are more than happy to acknowledge.

"Her clothes are modern and cool yet classic and wearable," says H&M's head of design Margareta van den Bosch. "We have long admired her sense of tailoring and femininity."


Photo : Fashion chain store H&M have enlisted Stella McCartney (right) to produce a collection. Picture / Reuters

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June 22, 2005 -- Miami Herald

Expect a furor over Stella McCartney line

Nothing thrills a dedicated fashionista more than a good buy. Testimony to that comes from the American success of Hennes & Mauritz, the Swedish-based fashion house, which specializes in cheap trendy chic.

Add the touch of a major French designer and the excitement quotient rises. When Karl Lagerfeld's collection hit the New York stores last fall, initial reaction to the Chanel designer's clothes was near stampede, and the best looks were gone immediately. (A few pieces hung around on the mark-down racks.)

Now Stella McCartney, the daughter of Beatle Paul, joins the lineup of French designers. She'll do about 40 pieces on the label Stella McCartney for H&M, due in the stores for holiday shopping.

With her family connections alone, she will spark a furor. You might want to plan a trip to the Big Apple in November.

August 13, 2005 -- USA Today

The full circle of friends

You've got to be animal-friendly to get the seal of approval from animal rights supporter Stella McCartney.

The British designer won't use fur or leather in her creations. So it makes sense that her Hollywood store was the site of a summer tea party, with such stars as Pamela Anderson, Amy Smart (Starsky & Hutch), Emily Deschanel (Boogeyman) and Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera) turning out to support the Humane Society of the United States and raise awareness of baby seals being hunted in Canada.

The night's hot gift, given to celebs to thank them for their support?

The Alex & Ani expandable wire bangle, a 14-karat gold filled bracelet adorned with a mother-of-pearl seashell, signifying protection and luck. The piece retails for $250, and all proceeds go to the Humane Society. McCartney, naturally, already has one.

It's available at www.alexandani.com.

Beyond the cult of Stella
McCartney designs become more accessible with H&M deal

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From left, H&M employees Ramona Cabral, Shatoya Jackson, Peter Gaye Wignall and Carmen Espinosa all wear Stella McCartney t-shirts at the Stella McCartney for H&M launch on 51st Street and 5th Avenue in New York on Thurs., Nov. 10, 2005.

The crowd inside the store at the Stella McCartney for H&M launch on 51st Street and 5th Avenue in New York on Thurs., Nov. 10, 2005.

The crowd inside the H&M store snatch up items as quickly as they are put out on the floor at the Stella McCartney for H&M launch on 51st Street and 5th Avenue in New York on Thurs., Nov. 10, 2005.

A crowd of people line up outside H&M for the Stella McCartney for H&M launch on 51st Street and 5th Avenue in New York on Thurs., Nov. 10, 2005.

Stella McCartney stampede at H&M


I cannot normally be found at Oxford Circus at 8am on a cold, blustery November morning. I have not, in all honesty, been anywhere near Oxford Street since the late Seventies; I am an exclusively Bond Street/Sloane Street girl.

But today I made an exception. I was wearing trainers and a determined expression. Because the new Stella McCartney collection went on sale at high street chain H&M, the most eagerly anticipated event in the fashion world since Mrs McQueen gave birth to a little boy called Lee.

It turns out that getting in the queue an hour before the doors opened at 9am was far, far too late. Karen, a 31-year-old nanny, had been there since 6.30am. She had abandoned her charges to purchase a black dress, any pair of Stella trousers 'they are so well cut for women who have a bottom', and a trademark Stella chiffon vest. 'I love Stella McCartney but I've never been able to afford her designs before,' she said.

I say Karen was first in the queue, but the scene was more like a good-natured scrum, everyone chatting and offering to hold each other's places while others volunteered to fetch lattes.

The age range was surprisingly diverse, from those in their mid-thirties, keen to snap up well-cut wool trouser suits and what has turned out to be the buy of the season, the black wool doublebreasted tailored coat at a staggeringly low price of ?99.99, to the youngest person I could find, 16-year-old Alice. She said she was 'bunking off school' to be there, which I don't suppose will bother her parents one bit; her father is fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford.

The girl has good taste: she loves Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs, was toting a Top Shop bag, and had her sights set on 'as many pairs of zipped skinny jeans' - at ?39.99 a pair - she could carry to sell on to her friends.

Many girls were hunting in packs; some would concentrate on the knitwear (I love the chunky cardigan/sweater dress for ?59.99, similar to a design that in the real Stella McCartney boutique in Bruton Street would retail at over ?495), while others would head for the silky trenchcoats.

I even found a couple of devoted new men in the crowd, sweetly shopping for their wives, clutching detailed lists in clammy hands.

Galia, 28, from north London, had her heart set on the grey, layered dress at ?59.99 (I saw her half an hour after the shop opened, wailing 'Where is my dress, who has my dress'; it was a day of giddy highs and devastating lows).

Anna, a stunning 28-year-old lawyer from New Zealand, was after a cropped jacket and oversized cardigan. There were a few interlopers, Carly and Sarah, who work for rival chain Warehouse, and who were here to see for themselves just how well this fusion between high fashion and bargain basement was doing.

From the evidence this morning, it was a runaway success. We were all filmed by the numerous TV crews sent to cover the event. I was after the black wool blazer featured in this month's Vogue (?59.99; why did I ever spend ten times that much on an identical and rather skimpily cut Helmut Lang one last winter?), a gem-encrusted camisole, also in Vogue, for ?34.99, and a trench coat for my friend Harriet.

By the time I found the blazers, there was only one left, so I snapped it up, plus the matching trousers with trademark zips, for ?34.99, both miraculously in my size (a similar suit in this winter's Stella McCartney collection is ?995). I also grabbed the trench, but couldn't find the gem tops and just stood, confused, until someone offered to swap me their sparkly top for my trenchcoat (sorry, Harriet; needs must).

There were lots of girls grabbing armfuls of clothes; anything they didn't like, they told me, they would sell later on eBay. The surprise bestseller was the silky navy jumpsuit (?39.99) with a sash at the waist and which ends at the knee. This is what I love about London girls: they are not afraid to experiment, and they also have a sense of humour, useful when a BBC news crew are filming you trying to get in something two sizes too small.

By 9.10am, the rails were empty. The changing room resembled a scene out of BBC2's Rome. The good-natured sales assistants were mopping their brows.

Of course, the success of this collection will be measured in how well the clothes fit and hang, and the quality of the fabrics. I was disappointed last year when I bought Karl Lagerfeld's collection for H&M. The sequin jacket soon became bald, and the cotton shirts proved impossible to iron.

I tried on my Stella suit when I got home and it is well-cut, fully lined and incredibly flattering. I will be proud to tell people who it is by and how much it cost.

This collaboration first hit the headlines, of course, when the advertising campaign had to be scrapped because the model in question, Kate Moss, had disgraced herself. What this morning proved beyond a shadow of a doubt is that fashion can be fun, cheap and accessible and without a sniff of difficult diva behaviour.
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Видео про то, как Стелла зажигает рождественские огни на своем магазине одежды в Лондоне. Мадонна ей помогает.
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Стелла Маккартни поддержала российский теннис

Стелла Маккартни пригласила одну из самых перспективных российский теннисисток Марию Кириленко стать лицом ее новой коллекции. Она представляет одежду для теннисистов, разработанную британским дизайнером для фирмы Adidas. По договору с компанией 19-летняя спортсменка должна будет играть в одежде и обуви Adidas во всех ближайших турнирах.
Выбор Марии в качестве модели был неслучаен – Маккартни давно следит за ее карьерой. Также она очень поддержала Кириленко перед недавним турниром Australian Open в Мельбурне, когда Маша должна была впервые появиться в одежде новой линии. Она написала Маше записку: «Давай, порви всех на британский флаг!» К сожалению, ни ободряющая записка, ни дизайнерское платье не помогли теннисистке одержать победу — она не вышла даже в полуфинал.
21 февраля 2006

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В Спортмастере были замечены сумочки от Стеллы Маккартни по 1000 р. Ясный пень, в кратчайшее время их там уже не было. Зато дальше эти же сумочки появились уже за 2500 в Спортсити, а ещё тапочки, кроссовочки, футболочки, штанишки. Если некуда пристроить 4-5 тысяч - сделайте себе приятное! :)

Новый парфюм "Sheer Stella"

What's that summer fragrance that evokes butterflies and hummingbirds? It has to be Sheer Stella.
With nature for inspiration, the fragrance encapsulates all that is sweet about summer ­ in a see-through bottle.
The butterfly and hummingbird are two of Stella McCartney's favorite creatures. And they are regulars in her accessories collections.
What's magical about this intoxicating summer cocktail?
Well, it has tangy and refreshing lemon zest, a crisp green apple note, delicate notes of rose absolute and celestial rose and a hint of sensual amber.
It's a feminine fragrance in a collectible bottle.
A fine balance.

Сегодня Стелле Нине Маккартни 35!

Всем в подарок ее коллекция Adidas. http://www.shopadidas.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=2189720&shopGroup=R&cp=2019628