Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney is an English fashion designer and was born in London on September 13, 1971. She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife 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 three siblings. According to her father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As she 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."
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.
After two collections, in March 1997 McCartney was appointed chief designer of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. In 2001, McCartney resigned from Chloé in order to enter into an eponymous joint venture with Gucci.
The sunglasses collection heralds the return of the aviator model in a starring role, expressed with the sheer allure of glamour offered in modern and sophisticated colours. Acetate frames are chunky with a vintage effect and metal styles feature clean lines. Distinctive details hallmark the collection with a double bridge finished in eco-leather, a sweat band personalizing metal frames and the "Stella McCartney" logo, which is either etched onto a metal tab or serigraphed directly onto the temple acetate.
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