Stella McCartney drew the starriest crowd of London Fashion Week so far last night as she launched her Green Carpet Collection at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Mayfair.
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| Stella McCartney |
Colin Firth, Paul McCartney, Drew Barrymore, Salma Hayek, François-Henri Pinault, Samuel L Jackson, Peter Blake and Mario Testino were just some of the big names that joined the designer to celebrate the three-part ethical offering: one part comprising four ball gowns made of left-over fabric from McCartney's studio (the models' portraits were being inked by artists from the Prince's Drawing School live); a range of shoes and accessories made from sustainably recycled materials; and a collection created from a brand-new organic cady that McCartney has developed.
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| Fashion Meets Art |
"This is a fabric that I am definitely going to incorporate into my own collection," she told us at the event. "I've been coming away from fittings over the last couple of weeks thinking 'Wow' - these are all recycled materials. In the fashion industry they burn all these thousands of metres of fabrics, which to me is crazy, so I'm recycling it."
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| Ethical Fashion |
Co-hosted by BFC chairman Natalie Massenet, Anna Wintour and GCC founder Livia Firth, the venue was completed with a bar, a band, a woodland forest, an artist's studio, and a magician's room, much to the delight of McCartney and her crowd.
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| Key Pieces |
"It's about having fun," she smiled. "Paris is my time of the year that is the catwalk - for the rest of the year I want to do something different and exciting for people. I want to give people a good time."
Mission accomplished.
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