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Designed in the late 1990s during Stella McCartney’s tenure at Chloé, this sleeveless midi dress features a soft pink floral print on cream silk. Details include a ruffled neckline a...

For her eponymous brand's second collection for Fall/Winter 2002, British Stella McCartney designed this airy layered silk-chiffon empire-waist cap-sleeve rose-color pullover blouse,...

Chloé by Stella McCartney iconic black banana graphic swimsuit, Spring Summer 2001 Exceptionally rare with “keep your bananas off my melons” slogan at the back Bandeau style, the ide...

This 100% authentic Stella McCartney cardigan is crafted from a luxurious blend of oat beige horizontal rib-knit cashmere (95%) and wool (5%). It features a boxy, oversized silhouett...

Chloé by Stella McCartney teal blue banana graphic tie front top, Spring Summer 2001 Can be worn on or off shoulders Good vintage condition with some very minor cracking to graphic W...

Arguable the most significant design in the Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2003 collection--since our versatile garment debuted in different colors on the runway and was worn by the British designer to take her fashion-show bow--this pink-printed dark-grey silk-blend zip-front bubble-shaped mini dress with white-satin stripes and pink piping was a favorite of the show's Vogue critic and her father Beatles co-founder Paul McCarthy. Vogue wrote: "Her hippest new idea came in the form of puffy satin bombers--she transformed one, a fusion of sport and chinoiserie print, into an off-the-shoulder bubble dress. McCartney is so into the glam-bomber idea, in fact, that she bounded onto the runway wearing a black version herself." The garment's voluminous batwing sleeves and stretch-cotton ribbed neckline and hem, plus custom golden-charm two-way zipper, enable it to have two different necklines and lengths to convert to a shorter puffier bomber jacket. Notably, the versatile piece that is subtly printed with mock-Beatles lyrics seems to have been the first tribute fashion-design that McCartney created to reference her father. Prior, she had credited her stylish mother Linda for instilling her with a love of fashion and inspiration for her initial namesake collections, which followed her first commercial collections with Phoebe Philo for Chloe. For background, when McCartney was a young girl in 1978, the mock-rock band The Rutles parodied a Beatles song, which was recorded by EMI as "Ging, Gang, Goolie". Given its lyrics, the chinoiserie-style dragon motifs were substituted by McCartney with bird skeletons...