FASHION

Stella McCartney: D.I.Y.


Emma Balfour

“I wanted to add some embellishment to the collection this season—but in a fresh, youthful way, with movement, freedom, and energy,” Stella McCartney says. “I played on the notions of function and utility with zips, textures, and a sophisticated do-it-yourself attitude.”

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Stella McCartney shoes from the fall 2014 collection. Courtesy of Stella McCartney.

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The Star Lite Motel in New York’s Catskill Mountains, 1991. Courtesy of Corbis.

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Rodrigo Almeida’s Concreta Chair, 2010. Courtesy of designer.

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An untitled Jacob Robert Price photograph, 2013. Courtesy of artist.

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A quilt armchair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Courtesy of Matter.

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A teddy boy and girl, London, 1972. Courtesy of Getty Images.

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An installation view of Olga de Amaral’s exhibition at the Louise Blouin Foundation, London, 2013. Courtesy of Laura Bushell/ARTINFO.

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Spring 2014 campaign for Rains, shot by Philip Messmann. Courtesy of Rains.

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Filippo Minelli’s photograph Shape A/O-B, 2011. Courtesy of artist.

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A Robert Erdmann image of Emma Balfour, 1989. Courtesy of Robert Erdmann/August.

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A film still from Anthony Geffen’s The Wildest Dream, 2010. Courtesy of the Everett Collection.

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Rope. Courtesy of Stella McCartney.

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Richard Serra’s Cycle, 2011. ©2014 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/courtesy of the Gagosian Gallery, Photograph by Lorenz Kienzle.