What makes Stella McCartney special?

Runway design from Stella McCartney’s early independent collections. Spring 2002 printed cotton dress featuring a whimsical illustrated misbehaving “monkey toile” motif. Cream cotto...

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

A pretty dress in beautiful combination of pink silk charmeuse with olive ruffles from Stella McCartney. It is a simple V neck dress enhanced with ruffl...

Chloé by Stella McCartney purple tank top, Fall Winter 2001 Features an oversized fuzzy “C” at front Good vintage condition with some fading commensurate with age 100% cotton Size: ...

A beautiful late 1990’s Chloé by Stella McCartney slip dress crafted from pure silk. Featuring spaghetti straps, a ballet slipper pink and sage green floral blossom design that tromp...

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 with stretch-cotton ribbed neckline and hem, plus custom golden-charm two-way zipper, enable it to have different necklines and lengths, so that it can also be styled as a 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...