Stella McCartney: Absent But In Form
Godfrey Deeny
March 4, 2005 - PARIS - Stella McCartney did not show up for her fashion show on Thursday in Paris, nor did her daddy Paul, though the Beatles daughter did place a note of apology on every seat in the Bourse de Paris explaining her absence.
“I am so sorry I cannot be with you al today! I would like to say a big thanks to my team… and dedicate this show to my husband Alasdhair and our 6 day old baby boy… Miller!! X Stella” the note read.
Turns out her team has been working hard, and well, in Stella’s absence. Out over a metal catwalk came a loosely cut collection that one could imagine many women wearing late into the maternity – swinging coats with yard-long bows and our now familiar friend the bubble skirt. But, in a fall season obsessed with volumes, the collection seemed suitably contemporary.
The collection also picked up on Stella’s love of that borrowed-from-the-boyfriend look with oversize sweaters worn over sexy thigh boots or flared skirts. Plus, a half dozen cocktail dresses at the finale, mainly in black, showed that Stella is no mean tailor. Curvy and a tad Japanese these would flatter most women’s figures.
That said, McCartney is no master colorist and the collection, though competent and certainly commercial, had little real fashion news. The fact is that Stella is truly the world’s first celebrity designer, who as a rock n roll aristocrat has more legitimate claim to the title than J Lo, Puffy or Gwen Stefani.
The huge success of her active sports line with Adidas – its been selling out in days in many American department stores – shows that she get the populist zeitgeist better than most designers – real or celebrity. One senses that the way ahead for her house is majorly masstige, not chicly elitist.
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