Stella Shines in British Fashion Awards

published Dec 3, 2007
Stella Shines in British Fashion Awards
Stella McCartney was last night named designer of the year at the British fashion awards.

The award, which comes weeks after McCartney's seven-year-old label announced it had turned a small profit for the first time, is indicative of how McCartney has established herself as a respected designer.

The Stella perfume and diversification into sunglasses and a range of sportswear for Adidas have helped to balance the books, while McCartney's aesthetic, which mixes sportswear influences with tailoring and vintage-feel feminine fabrics, has become part of the fashion vernacular - a fact proved by the Marks & Spencer collections for next summer, which feature pale, silky parkas, a McCartney signature piece.