Top 67 Stella McCartney Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
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#3. I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.
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#4. I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.
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#6. I don't use specific brands really. It's just that for my skin, I need as high an SPF factor as I can get my hands on. That's the only rule.
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#7. You want to be confident when you work out because it takes a lot to make you work out. So many women really enjoy it, but it's a hard thing and you have to make yourself do it most of the time. I think you want to feel that you look good to make you want to work out a little bit more.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
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#10. Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
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#11. I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.
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#12. I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.
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#13. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.
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#14. We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. As a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed; that's why I avoid all animal skins.
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#19. 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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#20. I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.
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#22. The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.
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#23. 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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#24. I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.
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#26. I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.
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#28. The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.
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#29. 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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#30. 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.
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#31. Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time,
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#32. Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.
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#33. There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.
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#38. For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.
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#39. I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic.
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#40. 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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#41. A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.
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#42. I run a lot. If I don't have time to go to the gym or don't have time to work out properly, I will go for a quick run. I think running is a great way to stay fit, and I really concentrate on fitting into a realistic urban lifestyle.
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#43. When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
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#44. We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
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#45. 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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#46. My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.
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#47. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.
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#50. I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.
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#51. 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.
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#53. People work better when they are afforded to be themselves
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#54. The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.
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#55. I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.
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#60. At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.
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#61. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#65. It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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