Voor dames die op zoek zijn naar modieuze schoenen zonder leer: Stella McCartney zou wel eens een oplossing kunnen bieden. Voor heren is het lastiger. Ik denk dat ik maar eens een keer wat geld bij elkaar sprokkel en een paar schoenen laat maken door een schoenmaker of zo. Vegeterian Shoes is niet echt mijn smaak.
Lees onderstaand bericht van vogue.co.uk.
"Stella McCartney was born in 1972, the daughter of ex-Beatle Sir Paul and Linda McCartney. She first hit the headlines herself in 1995, when she graduated from London's Central St Martins College of Art & Design. Her graduation show, attended by her super-famous parents, featured pals Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss modelling her clothes on the catwalk.
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Following the death of her mother in April 1998, Stella stepped up her fight against the maltreatment of animals, a cause Linda had always held dear. A month later, during Fur Fashion Week, she teamed up with PeTA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to release a video championing animal rights.
In April 2000, she renewed her contract with Chloe, amid reports that she had turned down the offer of a position at rival house Gucci, because Gucci would have required her to work with leather. Exactly one year later, Gucci confirmed that they had signed McCartney up, with a view to developing her own label as a global luxury brand. The Chloe job was awarded to her righthand woman, Phoebe Philo."
En zie onderstaande tekst van organicstyle.com.
"Quotes from Stella:
A lot of people who buy my clothes don't actually know that I don't do leather, they just go in and buy them and love them for what they are. And, actually, that's what I'm aiming for: that people will just like the look of my clothes, and the fact that they are ethically produced is secondary.
I'm just not good at doing something I don't believe in or compromising myself or being hypocritical. It's important to do things you believe in. If you're going to do something day in and day out, just liking pretty clothes isn't really good enough, is it?
Instead of leather and fur, we do a lot of knitted things, and a lot of fabric treatments—we'll wax something, for instance. We use natural rubbers from the rain forest, upholstery fabrics, fake suedes, fake leathers, plastics. It's an interesting job because it's very creative, but you also have to be grounded in business and reality. You can't have your head in the clouds if you want to have a finished garment at the end of the day—you have to be both realistic and organized. It's a good balance, really.
I designed and made my first garment when I was 12. It was a little fake-suede bike jacket, and I used to wear it all the time. I'd love to know where it is now.
Obviously my mother was a real driving force in the vegetarian thing and was massively involved in animal rights. But there's a lot of my mum's style in my work too. She very much expressed her personality in her clothing. She didn't compromise herself or follow trends. She was very honest and very original in what she wore and was great at a mix-and-match sort of thing. She was a very cool chick."
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