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Tom Mendenhall new CEO of Stella McCartney

Tom Mendenhall has been appointed chief executive officer of Stella McCartney. He succeeds Amandine Ohayon, who is stepping down as head of the fashion house after nearly two years. The company reported this in a statement obtained by WWD. Mendenhall brings extensive experience from the luxury sector. He was previously brand president of Polo...

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Two of fashion's most sustainable designers present at Paris fashion week

Eco-responsible fashion conscious designers presented their autumn-winter collections on Monday, the penultimate day of Paris Fashion Week. CAPTION: Stella McCartney presentation at Paris fashion week Fall/Winter 2024. Credits: ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Vegan Stella McCartney With her father and his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr watching from the...

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Video: Stella McCartney FW22 collection

In this video, fashion label Stella McCartney has presented its FW22 collection at Paris Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Stella McCartney via YouTube Photo credit: Image via Stella McCartney on YouTube

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Video: Stella Shared 3

In this video, Stella McCartney has presented its unisex collection, Stella Shared 3, designed by three different artists. Watch the video below. Video: Stella McCartney via YouTube Photo credit: Image: Stella McCartney via YouTube

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Podcast: Claire Bergkamp, COO of The Textile Exchange on Sustainability

In this episode, Edited: Inside Retail has interviewed Claire Bergkamp about how to educate retailers on sustainable practices. Bergkamp, who worked as the first worldwide sustainability and innovation director at Stella McCartney, is now the chief operating officer at The Textile Exchange, a nonprofit that aims to create leaders in the...

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Post-lockdown innovation dominates Paris fashion week SS22

Paris Fashion Week wraps up Tuesday after nine days of innovative experiments that showed how the industry is embracing technology and new approaches for a post-pandemic future. While many fashion houses stuck to online presentations, the biggest names such as Dior, Balenciaga and Stella McCartney -- even Yves Saint Laurent, which had been first...

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Stella McCartney launches most sustainable collection to date

British fashion brand Stella McCartney has launched its Autumn 2021 collection - the most sustainable yet, alongside a new campaign. The ‘Our time has come’ campaign features a fantasy of animals rewilding London, living freely among humans while donning sustainable luxury pieces. The campaign is also narrated as a tongue-in-cheek documentary by...

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Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes

Paris - From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps...

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Video: The Business of Fashion interviews designer Stella McCartney

In this video, The Business of Fashion has interviewed sustainable fashion designer Stella McCartney about pushing sustainable goods in the luxury fashion industry. Watch the video below. Video: The Business of Fashion via YouTube Photo credit: The Business of Fashion, Facebook

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Stella McCartney teams up with Greenpeace to stop deforestation

Stella McCartney is launching a capsule collection supporting Greenpeace’s campaign to stop deforestation in the Amazon, which is fuelled by industrial agriculture and meat production. The Stella x Greenpeace capsule embodies a shared commitment to protecting the planet and wildlife and jointly celebrates the two organisations’ respective 20th...

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Stella McCartney celebrating reopening with a series of pop-ups

British fashion designer Stella McCartney is celebrating the reopening of its flagship store on Old Bond Street, London with a series of pop-ups highlighting local businesses. Over the coming weeks, Stella McCartney will be handing over space to what it calls its #StellaCommunity friends, with each week a different local business featuring...

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Stella McCartney unveils first garments made from Mylo, a fungi-based fabric

British fashion designer Stella McCartney has unveiled the first-ever garments made with Mylo, a vegan, sustainable, animal-free leather alternative made from mycelium, the infinitely renewable underground root system of fungi, developed by California-based Bolt Threads. McCartney has used Bolt Threads’ trademarked Mylo fabric for two garments,...