MY FAVOURITE FASHION DESIGNER

STELLA MCCARTNEY

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 EARLY LIFE

• McCartney was born on 13 September 1971 by Caesarean section at

King's College Hospital in Camberwell, London. She is named after
her maternal great-grandmothers both of Linda's grandmothers were
named Stella. As a girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her
parents and their group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-
sister Heather older sister Mary, and younger brother James.
 WHY FASHION

• McCartney became interested in designing clothes as a youth. At the

age of 13, she designed her first jacket. Three years later, she
interned for Christian Lacroix, working on her first haute couture
collection, honing her skills working for Edward Sexton (her father's
Savile Row tailor) for a number of years.
• McCartney studied her foundation at Ravensbourne College of
Design and Communication, followed by Fashion Design at Central
Saint Martins in the early 1990s, graduating in 1995. Her graduation
collection was modelled for free by friends and supermodels Naomi
Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss, at the graduation runway
show, presented to a song especially written by her father, "Stella
May Day".
 HER WORK

• In 2001, McCartney launched a fashion house under her name, in a

joint venture with Gucci Group,and presented her first collection in
Paris. She now operates 51 freestanding stores in Manhattan's Soho,
London's Mayfair, LA's West Hollywood, Paris's Palais Royal,
Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia, Milan, Rome, Miami and Houston,
among other locations.
• In 2003, McCartney launched her first perfume, Stella. In January
2007, she launched a 100% organic skincare line, CARE, which
includes seven products, from a cleansing milk made with lemon
balm and apricot, to green tea and linden blossom floral water.

• In 2008, McCartney launched a new lingerie line.In November 2010,

the Stella McCartney Kids collection was launched for newborns and
children up to age 12.
 FAMILY LIFE

• McCartney married British publisher Alasdhair Willis on 30

August 2003 at Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute. Her
wedding dress was an updated version of her mother's
wedding dress from 1969.
• Willis works as creative director of shoewear brand Hunter
Boot Ltd. In 2015, he was named one of GQ's 50 best-dressed
British men.
• McCartney and Willis have four children: sons Miller
Alasdhair James Willis and Beckett Robert Lee Willis and
daughters Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis and Reiley Dilys Stella
Willis.
• McCartney has a younger half-sister, Beatrice Milly
McCartney, born on 28 October 2003 to her father and his
second wife, Heather Mills.
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