Stella McCartney Quotes

Author Image

Stella McCartney

Profession : Designer

Birth : September 13, 1971

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

Stella McCartney

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Stella McCartney

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Stella McCartney

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

Stella McCartney

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Stella McCartney

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

Stella McCartney

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Stella McCartney

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

Stella McCartney

I don't plan massively in advance.

Stella McCartney

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

Stella McCartney

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

Stella McCartney

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

Stella McCartney

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.

Stella McCartney

I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.

Stella McCartney

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

Stella McCartney

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

Stella McCartney

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

Stella McCartney

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

Stella McCartney

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