Fashion’s long-running ecological conscience, Stella McCartney staged her latest show inside a beautiful glass house on Monday morning, opening with an impassioned plea to save Mother Earth, in a show that will be known as It’s About F…ing Time.
With her dad Paul and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr sitting front-row beside singer MIA, thesp Charlotte Rampling and local hottie Tina Kunakey, Stella opened the show with a video. Images of nature, mountain beauty, whales frolicking and teaming fish, interspersed with a single female figure representing Mother Earth saying things like: “Birds, waves, you all came from me, in harmony. So, why are you harming me? We are always connected, and despite your attempts at emancipation you cannot cut the umbilical chord, that threads through the entire planet. I am the only mother where it is natural for her to outlive her children. Do you still love me. I need you to show it. It’s About F…ing Time.”
Pre-show, Stella had sent a similar message – “It’s About F…ing Time you come to my show. She even put that phrase on a white T-shirt in a collection whose best moments were the often excellent tailoring. Stella may not have the design chops of Elsa, Coco or Miuccia, but her English roots has led her to become a very fine tailor. Ask any major department store retailer and they all will happily tell you what a loyal following Stella’s suits command.
Presented inside the high modernist glasshouse of Parc André Citroën, an infant newcomer garden to Paris, since it only opened in 1992. And a good backdrop to suits that were very snappy, cut with fluid pants and given plenty of plausible volume.
The designer’s other best ideas were at cocktail hour, with sequined studded beige and white Lycra cocktails, and crystal embroidered frocks. Before bringing the action to the close with a giant rope-style Yettie coat worn by Natalia Vodianova. Her husband Antoine Arnault sat front row. By the way, his daddy Bernard Arnault controls LVMH and the house of Stella McCartney.
Like we said, Stella always had political nous.
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