Stella McCartney receives a CBE for services to fashion
Stella McCartney receives a CBE for services to fashion and sustainability from King Charles in investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle
- The 51-year-old champions environmentally friendly garment production with no animal products
- She collected her CBE after being recognised in the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours.
Fashion designer Stella McCartney received a CBE at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
McCartney famously designed the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding reception dress and Team GB’s uniforms for the London 2012 Olympics.
The 51-year-old, who champions environmentally friendly garment production with no animal products, collected her CBE for services to fashion and sustainability after being recognised in the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours.
She was presented with the honour by King Charles with Skunk Anansie singer Deborah Dyer, best known by her stage name Skin, also among those receiving honours.
Stella previously received an OBE for services to fashion.
Honour: Fashion designer Stella McCartney received a CBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for her services to fashion and sustainability
The designer looked chic in a navy dress belted at the waist and accessorised with a headband with a veil.
McCartney, 51, appeared at the Cop26 climate change summit in 2021 where she complained that the fashion world had been ‘getting away with murder’ and called for the industry to cut down on waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
As part of her green drive, she recently launched her new Frayme bag, the first in the world to be made out of vegan leather as well as her sustainable skincare line STELLA.
King Charles and McCartney discussed her vegan fashion range at the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow, and he reportedly found her exhibition ‘enlightening and inspiring’.
Motivated by her late mother Linda, a passionate animal rights activist, McCartney has not used fur, leather or any animal skins in her label since it launched in 2001.
Linda died of cancer at the age of 56 in 1998 after 29 years of marriage to Stella’s father, Beatles legend Paul.
‘I was riding my horse there the other morning and living my best life and thinking, all that matters is that I get to do all the things I wish my mum had,’ Stella said.
CBE: The 51-year-old, who champions environmentally friendly garment production collected her CBE after being recognised in the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours
Big day: The designer looked chic in a navy dress belted at the waist and accessorised with a headband with a veil
Strike a pose: Stella pulled faces for the camera as she posed outside Windsor Castle after the ceremony
lying the flag: The designer naturally chose one of her own creations for her big day
Discussing her upbringing, she once confessed that it was her parents frugal lifestyle that developed her passion for reusing and recycling in fashion:
‘I’ve grown up in a family that doesn’t chuck stuff away. And it sounds silly, but I didn’t have a huge amount of money as a kid,’ she mused in a 2019 interview with Porter Edit.
‘My mum and dad were really clever; I went to a comprehensive [school] and I wasn’t given a load of cash, so I would go to vintage and second-hand shops and markets to buy clothes.
‘When I was younger, being a vegetarian and an animal activist was a very delicate subject matter and it was always met with a lot of defensiveness or quite a bit of aggression,’ she added.
‘It was never an openhearted conversation that you could have with people, so I had to be mindful of how you could plant a seed of change in people who maybe didn’t have that upbringing or the same point of view.
‘It’s never been my way to tell people off and make them feel bad, because I think it’s an overwhelming and daunting conversation. So I try to give information that’s honest but not too terrifying,’ she confessed.
While she runs a high-flying fashion empire, on the personal front, Stella has been married to husband Alasdhair Willis since 2003 and they share four children – Miller, 17, Bailey, 15, Beckett, 14and Reiley, 11.
Designer: As part of her green drive, she recently launched her new Frayme bag, the first in the world to be made out of vegan leather as well as her sustainable skincare line
Fan: King Charles and McCartney previously discussed her vegan fashion range at the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow,
Legacy: Motivated by her late mother Linda, a passionate animal rights activist, McCartney has not used fur, leather or any animal skins in her label since it launched in 2001
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