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Fashion designer Stella McCartney has been named the Person of the Year by animal-rights campaigners.

Stella McCartney Is PETA's Person Of The Year
Fashion designer Stella McCartney has been named the Person of the Year by animal-rights campaigners.

The daughter of Beatles legend Paul was honoured by members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for her fur-free and leather-free collections.

PETA's U.S. Senior Vice President, Dan Mathews, says, "Stella McCartney proves you can have a look that kills without killing."

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)


Stella McCartney Was Unaware Of Father's Fame
Paul McCartney tried to keep his international fame from his daughter Stella - but the clever youngster figured out his identity on her own. The fashion designer - who is the daughter of the ex-Beatle and his late wife Linda - was kept unaware of her father's career for years, but the star, now 36, eventually managed to solve the secret of his worldwide celebrity.

He says, "There was this one moment where the children were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me, 'Dad, you're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' and I said, 'Yes, darling, but I'm Daddy really.'"

About Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife, rock photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney.

Early life
Stella McCartney was born in London, the second child of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers: both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their pop group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As his daughter was being born by emergency caesarean section, Paul sat outside the operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel."[1] Wings toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.

Despite their fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal a life as possible so Stella and her siblings attended the local state school in East Sussex. McCartney has said that while attending state school, she was a victim of bullying.[2]


Career

Beginning
Stella McCartney became interested designing clothes at age 12, when she made her first jacket. Three years later, she interned for Christian Lacroix, working on his first fashion design collection, honing her skills on Savile Row for a number of years.

She studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the early 1990s. Her graduation collection in 1995 was modelled by friends and supermodels Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free – at the graduation runway show. The collection was shown to a song penned by her famous father, called "Stella May Day."[3] The show made front-page news, and the entire collection was sold to Tokio, a London boutique. The designs were licensed to Browns, Joseph, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus.

In 1998 she designed her sister Mary's wedding dress for her wedding to television producer Alistair Donald.

As a strict vegetarian, McCartney does not use fur or leather in her designs and supports PETA. [4] Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her "no animal" policy; for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. Her father is also known for supporting PETA by protesting against designers who use animal fur, and those who wear it.