Stella McCartney, spring 2005
Okay, I’m exaggerating the star motif by including these Stella McCartney shades, with just a tiny star icon…
Born in London in 1971, Ms. McCartney attended Central Saint Martins; after graduating and showing only two of her own collections, she landed the top spot at the Parisian house of Chloe. She managed to turn it around financially while also making it fun and saucy. Of course it didn’t hurt that she and her famous friends, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Moss, and Madonna, were live advertising (the best kind!) for her clothes!!!
She departed from Chloe, and with the support of Gucci she again showed her designs under her own name, beginning in spring/summer 2002.
Ms. McCartney has certainly earned her own reputation in the fashion world, but I can’t hear her name without thinking of the Beatles and the fabulous Sir Paul McCartney (her father, in case you’ve been living in a cave) —to me, the real star of the family! So, over the years, I’ve followed her career with interest and tried very hard to love her clothes, but I just don’t. Air-brushed tee-shirts and pineapple-emblazoned bikinis (very memorable—after all, I’m still mentioning it some eight or nine years later) are not part of my vernacular. But that’s okay—fashion is about personal taste, personal choice, and a personal point of view.
So back to these sunglasses…what drew me to this particular pair (and why I needed another pair of black ones) was, specifically, the pristine straight line across the top edge—very architectural and graphic. This, combined with the elegant oval lenses and delicate scale represent the essence of Stella McCartney’s strong, yet feminine designs.
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