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{{Infobox Fashion Designer|image=|caption=|name= Stella McCartney|nationality=England|birth_date=|birth_place= London, England|label_name=Stella McCartneyadidas by Stella McCartney|significant_design=|awards=|-->

Stella Nina McCartney (born [13 September 1971) is an England fashion designer.

Early life Stella McCartney was born in London, the daughter of former The Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, an United States rock music photographer famous for her support of vegetarianism and range of vegetarian food. As a strict vegetarian herself, McCartney does not use fur, silk, lambswool or leather in her designs and supports PETA.http://www.peta.org/feat/stellavid/index.html 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.

She is named for her maternal great-grandmothers: both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her famous parents and their pop group Wings (band), along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather McCartney (who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney), older sister Mary McCartney, and younger brother James McCartney. 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."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565383/bio Wings toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.

Despite their immense fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal an existence as possible so Stella and her siblings attended the local state school in East Sussex. McCartney said that while attending state school, she was a victim of bullying.http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/stella%20mccartney%20wants%20son%20to%20go%20private

Career Beginning 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.

McCartney 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."http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE0D9143CF937A25755C0A963958260 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 McCartney's wedding dress for her wedding to television producer Alistair Donald.

Chloé, Gucci, CARE After two collections, in March 1997 McCartney was appointed chief designer of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was less than impressed with the house's choice, famously stating: "Chloé should have taken a big name. They did, but in music, not fashion. Let's hope she's as gifted as her father." McCartney's designs enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. She was accompanied to the design House by her assistant and friend Phoebe Philo, who later took over as design director after McCartney left.

In 2001, she resigned from Chloé in order to enter into an eponymous joint venture with Gucci. The line has three stores, one in New York City (September 2002), one in Mayfair (April 2004) and one in Los Angeles, which opened in September 2003, when she both opened the store and expanded her brand into perfume on her birthday.

Stella McCartney received the VH1/Vogue (magazine) Designer of the Year award in 2000. Paul McCartney presented the award to his daughter. She thanked him in her acceptance speech and dedicated the award to her late mother.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/982824.stm Also in 2000, McCartney designed Madonna (entertainer)'s wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie. Her older sister, Mary McCartney, served as the wedding photographer.

In January 2007, Stella McCartney launched a skincare line called CARE. The 100% organic line includes seven products, from a cleansing milk made with lemon balm and apricot, to green tea and linden blossom floral water.http://www.sephora.com/browse/brand_hierarchy.jhtml?brandId=5856 Dutch model Bette Franke stars in the line's advertisements.

Collaborations In 2004, she designed clothes for Madonna (entertainer)'s The Re-Invention Tour, Annie Lennox's summer tour, and Gwyneth Paltrow's and Jude Law's costumes for the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

She also launched a joint-venture line with adidas, establishing a long-term partnership with the corporation in September 2004. This line is a sports performance collection for women called adidas by Stella McCartney.http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/women/content/stella/stella.asp?strCountry_adidascom=com The collection includes apparel for swim, gym, running, tennis and wintersports, as well as bags. McCartney's favorite pieces in the collection come with a special reflector keychain. In spring/summer 2006, the keychain was in the shape of a pink heart and in fall/winter 2006, the keychain was in the shape of a gray wolf's head. In January 2007 Stella McCartney announced that she will be adding a branch called Gym Yoga to her sports range for adidas. Gym Yoga spring/summer 2007 collection is inspired by ballet and dance uniforms. The collection features double-layered tank tops with deep necklines, low-waisted skinny trousers and lightweight rubber shoes. Stella McCartney adds “Gym Yoga” collection to her range for Adidas EnjoyFashion, February 09, 2007 Her adidas by Stella McCartney line contract was extended until 2010.

In 2005, she designed a range of clothing and accessories for H&M, to boost public awareness of her own brand and to create more affordable options for her fans. The line was released in November of that year and sold out almost immediately on launch day, due to the similarity (in many cases, almost direct copies) between her expensive main line and the H&M line.

On March 12, 2007, Stella McCartney's limited edition 42-piece range was released to just 100 Target stores exclusively in Australia. The range was priced from $30 for a silk scarf to $200 for a taffeta trench coat. The collection was made in China. Scenes of near hysteria broke out as women stormed the stores to buy the collection. A problem was "clothing scalpers", who bought up large amounts of the range to resell on eBay at a high mark-up.http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21364144-5007132,00.html Later, a large number of buyers returned their Stella clothes to Target complaining of strange, non-standard sizing that was bigger than the norm. A Target spokesperson defended the range saying that Stella's look was "generous" and "oversized". Later, returned Stella clothes languished on the racks having had their prices slashed by up to 60 per cent.http://www.stuff.co.nz/4084613a22409.html

In January 2008, McCartney's collaboration with lingerie label Bendon will be released to department stores, speciality stores and Stella McCartney stores. The lingerie is to come in the colours of her signature palette: antique pink, blue, grey and cream.

In Spring 2008, McCartney will be releasing a line of handbags for LeSportsac. The collection will have 30 to 40 styles and will range from $200-$250. The collection will consist of travel bags, luggage, baby accessories and bags for mothers with infants and toddlers. The line will be sold at high end retailers, the Los Angeles and New York Stella McCartney stores, select LeSportsac boutiques, and will be available for purchase online.

Criticism Some in the press have suggested that McCartney's meteoric rise through the fashion industry was partly due to nepotism. In particular, it has been suggested that Vendome, owners of the Chloé house, appointed her as much for the wave of publicity the appointment would generate as her talent. In recent times, however, most commentators have said that she is entirely capable. Indeed, Vogue magazine magazine wrote that "her first collection for the house Chloé, shown in Paris in October 1997, quickly dispelled any doubts about her talent."http://www.vogue.co.uk/whos_who/Stella_McCartney/default.html However when she left the label and Phoebe Philo remained as design director, the standard of design at Chloé is thought to have improved. This, combined with poor financial and critical performance of her own brand, has led to suggestions that she was "carried" at Chloe by Phoebe Philo.

McCartney went to Saint Martins where she did not receive a first class degree, unlike the other internationally famous Saint Martins Alumni, such as John Galliano and Hussein Chalayan, adding to the speculation that it was her name rather than her talent which lead to the Chloé appointment. Despite this, she is known in the fashion industry as "Stella Steel" or "Unstoppable Stella."http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_19991027/ai_n13841174]

Personal life McCartney married publisher Alasdhair Willis on 30 August 2003, in a private Roman Catholic Church chapel at Mount Stuart House, the stately home of the Marquess of Bute. McCartney's wedding dress was an updated version of her mother's wedding dress from her March 1969 marriage ceremony to Paul McCartney.http://www.vogue.co.uk/whos_who/Stella_McCartney/default.html She designed the dress with Tom Ford, her boss at Gucci. The service was attended by Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler, Pierce Brosnan and Madonna (entertainer).http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/stellamccartney/

Their first child, son Miller Alasdhair James Willis, was born on 25 February 2005, weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz. Their second child, daughter Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis, was born 8 December 2006, weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz.http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=40953# Stella is expecting her third child by the end of 2007. {{cite news], and a 250-acre farm in Pershore, Worcestershire.http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Stella+McCartney-16609.html

McCartney is a member of The Royal British Legion, Paddington Branch, as is her husband.

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{{Infobox Fashion Designer|image=|caption=|name= Stella McCartney|nationality=England|birth_date=|birth_place= London, England|label_name=Stella McCartneyadidas by Stella McCartney|significant_design=|awards=|-->

Stella Nina McCartney (born [13 September 1971) is an England fashion designer.

Early life Stella McCartney was born in London, the daughter of former The Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, an United States rock music photographer famous for her support of vegetarianism and range of vegetarian food. As a strict vegetarian herself, McCartney does not use fur, silk, lambswool or leather in her designs and supports PETA.http://www.peta.org/feat/stellavid/index.html 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.

She is named for her maternal great-grandmothers: both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her famous parents and their pop group Wings (band), along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather McCartney (who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney), older sister Mary McCartney, and younger brother James McCartney. 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."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565383/bio Wings toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.

Despite their immense fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal an existence as possible so Stella and her siblings attended the local state school in East Sussex. McCartney said that while attending state school, she was a victim of bullying.http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/stella%20mccartney%20wants%20son%20to%20go%20private

Career Beginning 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.

McCartney 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."http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE0D9143CF937A25755C0A963958260 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 McCartney's wedding dress for her wedding to television producer Alistair Donald.

Chloé, Gucci, CARE After two collections, in March 1997 McCartney was appointed chief designer of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was less than impressed with the house's choice, famously stating: "Chloé should have taken a big name. They did, but in music, not fashion. Let's hope she's as gifted as her father." McCartney's designs enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. She was accompanied to the design House by her assistant and friend Phoebe Philo, who later took over as design director after McCartney left.

In 2001, she resigned from Chloé in order to enter into an eponymous joint venture with Gucci. The line has three stores, one in New York City (September 2002), one in Mayfair (April 2004) and one in Los Angeles, which opened in September 2003, when she both opened the store and expanded her brand into perfume on her birthday.

Stella McCartney received the VH1/Vogue (magazine) Designer of the Year award in 2000. Paul McCartney presented the award to his daughter. She thanked him in her acceptance speech and dedicated the award to her late mother.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/982824.stm Also in 2000, McCartney designed Madonna (entertainer)'s wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie. Her older sister, Mary McCartney, served as the wedding photographer.

In January 2007, Stella McCartney launched a skincare line called CARE. The 100% organic line includes seven products, from a cleansing milk made with lemon balm and apricot, to green tea and linden blossom floral water.http://www.sephora.com/browse/brand_hierarchy.jhtml?brandId=5856 Dutch model Bette Franke stars in the line's advertisements.

Collaborations In 2004, she designed clothes for Madonna (entertainer)'s The Re-Invention Tour, Annie Lennox's summer tour, and Gwyneth Paltrow's and Jude Law's costumes for the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

She also launched a joint-venture line with adidas, establishing a long-term partnership with the corporation in September 2004. This line is a sports performance collection for women called adidas by Stella McCartney.http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/women/content/stella/stella.asp?strCountry_adidascom=com The collection includes apparel for swim, gym, running, tennis and wintersports, as well as bags. McCartney's favorite pieces in the collection come with a special reflector keychain. In spring/summer 2006, the keychain was in the shape of a pink heart and in fall/winter 2006, the keychain was in the shape of a gray wolf's head. In January 2007 Stella McCartney announced that she will be adding a branch called Gym Yoga to her sports range for adidas. Gym Yoga spring/summer 2007 collection is inspired by ballet and dance uniforms. The collection features double-layered tank tops with deep necklines, low-waisted skinny trousers and lightweight rubber shoes. Stella McCartney adds “Gym Yoga” collection to her range for Adidas EnjoyFashion, February 09, 2007 Her adidas by Stella McCartney line contract was extended until 2010.

In 2005, she designed a range of clothing and accessories for H&M, to boost public awareness of her own brand and to create more affordable options for her fans. The line was released in November of that year and sold out almost immediately on launch day, due to the similarity (in many cases, almost direct copies) between her expensive main line and the H&M line.

On March 12, 2007, Stella McCartney's limited edition 42-piece range was released to just 100 Target stores exclusively in Australia. The range was priced from $30 for a silk scarf to $200 for a taffeta trench coat. The collection was made in China. Scenes of near hysteria broke out as women stormed the stores to buy the collection. A problem was "clothing scalpers", who bought up large amounts of the range to resell on eBay at a high mark-up.http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21364144-5007132,00.html Later, a large number of buyers returned their Stella clothes to Target complaining of strange, non-standard sizing that was bigger than the norm. A Target spokesperson defended the range saying that Stella's look was "generous" and "oversized". Later, returned Stella clothes languished on the racks having had their prices slashed by up to 60 per cent.http://www.stuff.co.nz/4084613a22409.html

In January 2008, McCartney's collaboration with lingerie label Bendon will be released to department stores, speciality stores and Stella McCartney stores. The lingerie is to come in the colours of her signature palette: antique pink, blue, grey and cream.

In Spring 2008, McCartney will be releasing a line of handbags for LeSportsac. The collection will have 30 to 40 styles and will range from $200-$250. The collection will consist of travel bags, luggage, baby accessories and bags for mothers with infants and toddlers. The line will be sold at high end retailers, the Los Angeles and New York Stella McCartney stores, select LeSportsac boutiques, and will be available for purchase online.

Criticism Some in the press have suggested that McCartney's meteoric rise through the fashion industry was partly due to nepotism. In particular, it has been suggested that Vendome, owners of the Chloé house, appointed her as much for the wave of publicity the appointment would generate as her talent. In recent times, however, most commentators have said that she is entirely capable. Indeed, Vogue magazine magazine wrote that "her first collection for the house Chloé, shown in Paris in October 1997, quickly dispelled any doubts about her talent."http://www.vogue.co.uk/whos_who/Stella_McCartney/default.html However when she left the label and Phoebe Philo remained as design director, the standard of design at Chloé is thought to have improved. This, combined with poor financial and critical performance of her own brand, has led to suggestions that she was "carried" at Chloe by Phoebe Philo.

McCartney went to Saint Martins where she did not receive a first class degree, unlike the other internationally famous Saint Martins Alumni, such as John Galliano and Hussein Chalayan, adding to the speculation that it was her name rather than her talent which lead to the Chloé appointment. Despite this, she is known in the fashion industry as "Stella Steel" or "Unstoppable Stella."http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_19991027/ai_n13841174]

Personal life McCartney married publisher Alasdhair Willis on 30 August 2003, in a private Roman Catholic Church chapel at Mount Stuart House, the stately home of the Marquess of Bute. McCartney's wedding dress was an updated version of her mother's wedding dress from her March 1969 marriage ceremony to Paul McCartney.http://www.vogue.co.uk/whos_who/Stella_McCartney/default.html She designed the dress with Tom Ford, her boss at Gucci. The service was attended by Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler, Pierce Brosnan and Madonna (entertainer).http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/stellamccartney/

Their first child, son Miller Alasdhair James Willis, was born on 25 February 2005, weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz. Their second child, daughter Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis, was born 8 December 2006, weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz.http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=40953# Stella is expecting her third child by the end of 2007. {{cite news], and a 250-acre farm in Pershore, Worcestershire.http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Stella+McCartney-16609.html

McCartney is a member of The Royal British Legion, Paddington Branch, as is her husband.

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