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" I like doing slightly masculine, Savile Row tailoring. A nice jacket. Wearable - it's almost a dirty word in fashion, wearable, but that's what I do. "
Stella McCartney
Jacket
Dirty
Doing
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" What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat. "
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" I can debate for weeks whether a trouser should sit on the waist, or a centimetre below, or on the hip, whether it should have a zip or a button, because I find personally that a detail like that can have a massive impact on how I carry myself that day. If I wear a slouchy jean, that will affect my posture and my whole manner. "
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" To work on the competition wear for the Olympics is kind of insane. As a fashion designer, you don't think to yourself, 'I'm going to get the opportunity to work with athletes at that level at the Olympic Games.' It really is such an incredible thing to have any kind of contact with as a designer. "
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Competition
Yourself
" Designing kids clothes is something personal to me because I'm a mother. So to be able to see my kids wearing something I've designed is very fulfilling. With the kids' collection, we really try to focus on great quality with an accessible price point in styles that appeal to both parents and kids. "
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" It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time. "
Stella McCartney
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Time
Myself
" For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift. "
Stella McCartney
Singing
Gift
Know
" The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me. "
Stella McCartney
World
Respect
Parents
" I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost. "
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Fall
Know
" Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful. "
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Way
Fashion
Stupid
" I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice. "
Stella McCartney
Think
Deep
Down
" I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. "
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I Am
Mother
Wife
" I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good. "
Stella McCartney
You
Me
Hope
" If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance. "
Stella McCartney
People
Balance
Try
" I was so aware of the stage clothes versus the everyday-life clothes, and the extremeness of the stage clothes that my parents had designed. Even coming across my dad's old Beatles suits from Savile Row and the history attached to them - the masculinity and simplicity compared to the '70s glitz and glamour of Wings. "
Stella McCartney
Parents
Simplicity
Clothes
" The majority of fragrances are designed by people who have no idea what the house does. But for me, it had to be honest. That's where it becomes personal. "
Stella McCartney
Personal
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House
" My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to. "
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" I confess to being a frustrated musician. "
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Musician
Frustrated
Confess
" We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA. "
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Our
Try
DNA
" I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way. "
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Differences
Fashion
Way
" We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary. "
Stella McCartney
Fashion
Proof
Luxury
" I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words. "
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Husband
Mother
Words
" I'm a woman designing for women, and there are so many layers to that. On the one hand, it brings an effortlessness, but it also means that I think and overthink every detail, whether it's physical or mental or even - in some sense - spiritual. "
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Woman
Detail
Spiritual
" I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy. "
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Embarrassed
Still
Fashion
" Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence. "
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Style
Big
Confidence
" I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter and to make my designs more accessible to a wider audience in Australia. "
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Target
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" What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so complicated to get it right. I like trousers for evening, especially when they have that width and attitude to them. "
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Attitude
Important
" More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids. "
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Kids
Breath
More
" As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games. "
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Opportunity
Amazing
Creative
" The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me. "
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