FASHION’S GOLDEN GIRL

When Stella McCartney announced her collaboration with Adidas, her adoring fans finally found a new and exciting way to incorporate her inimitable style into their daily routine. Thirteen years later, adidas by Stella McCartney is a brand in its own right, spearheading innovation and panache in the demanding sports milieu. Stella herself, works out six days a week. And when she is not sweating at the gym or lifting weights, she discloses how exactly everything started.

Stella Nina McCartney is a mother of four and wife of Alasdhair Willis, former publishing director of Wallpaper Magazine as well as the founder of furniture design Company Established and Sons. The pair first met when he was hired to consult on her business after she’d just left Chloé. It was love “across a breakfast table” and they haven’t been apart since. The family lives in a beautiful home in Noting Hill. At her wedding in 2003, she wore a self-designed dress inspired by the one her mother had worn to her own wedding in 1969. In the same year, she launched her first perfume, entitled Stella.

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Born in September 1971 to former Beatle Paul McCartney and musician, photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney, she spent her formative years travelling the world with her parents who, at the time, were both in the band Wings. Despite their fame, the McCartney’s wanted their children to lead as normal lives as possible, so Stella and her siblings attended local state schools in East Sussex. She launched a joint-venture line with adidas in September 2004. The collection, called adidas by Stella McCartney, has since grown to include a wide range of different sportswear including yoga, tennis, winter sports and golf.