Stella McCartney's show during Paris fashion week was a heartfelt event for the designer and her famous clan.
The show was dedicated to her husband and son and "also for my mum and dad." When stopped by a guest backstage and told that Linda McCartney's presence could be felt at the show -- Stella smiled and said: "I could feel my mum, too." She paused, then said: "Stop! You're going to make me cry.
With one son and another baby on the way, McCartney credits her mother as setting the example of balancing work and motherhood. "My mum always worked," she said exclusively to PEOPLE. "
A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do. I enjoy working and I enjoy balancing." And what does dad Sir Paul McCartney -- who watched the show from a front row seat next to Kanye West -- have to say? "She's just great. She makes it look so easy." -- Courtney Rubin
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Stella McCartney Spring 2007: Bright & Cheerful
PARIS, Mar 6, 2006/ FW/ --- With models uncharacteristically smiling, Stella McCartney’s Fall 2006 collection previewed last Thursday here is Paris is optimistic, lively and full of life.
Capes, trench coats and day jackets were cut wide; woolen knits providing the warmth for a cold winter. Sweaters with wide lapels worked as extra long vests and short-cropped denim jackets embellished with zips & buckles offered chic looks without going over the top.
McCartney who is well known as an animal rights activist and continues to refuse to work with leather and fur continues to prove that a winter collection does not necessarily need animal skin to be successful. More...
Spring 2007 Video
How Stella keeps her groove ? Samantha LaneFebruary 11, 2007. She knows she was born lucky but Stella McCartney has learned to make the most of her opportunities. She talks to Samantha Lane about family, fashion and designing clothes for "Tarjay".
'I'm full of contradictions," Stella McCartney says. "Which is good." Likewise, contradictions have surrounded her, many beyond her control. Like the fact that she was born to a couple of international superstars who were determined to put their children through a state school.
Now 35, the daughter of Paul and Linda is discussing how she tries to keep normal working hours, like a normal working mother, so she can live a normal kind of existence. And yet this fashion designer has always had at her fingertips means and opportunities to do things the majority can only dream of.
