How Stella makes it on to celeb bods

Reese Witherspoon, Kate Bosworth, Stella McCartney and Cara Delevingne attend the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. All are wearing McCartney outfits.

Reese Witherspoon, Kate Bosworth, Stella McCartney and Cara Delevingne attend the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. All are wearing McCartney outfits.

Published Jun 30, 2015

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London - Globally famous? Passing through London? In that case, you simply must team up with the fashion world’s most ubiquitous celebrity pal, Stella McCartney.

Stella, 43, has staggering form as the designer-clad shadow to every woman-of-the-moment - from Kate Moss 20 years ago to Amal Clooney this week, with everyone from Cara Delevingne to Gwyneth Paltrow in between.

Perhaps even more amazing than her networking skills is her generosity - or her influence. For virtually every woman she meets for dinner, or poses with on a night out at a fashion party, just happens to be wearing wildly expensive clothes... by Stella McCartney.

Are they a gift? A loan? Or do the A-listers actually pay to wear her creations?

Nobody in the fashion world is vulgar enough to vouchsafe such information - her PR did not respond when asked about the lace jumpsuit worn by Amal on Wednesday night.

However, the practice of gifting outfits to close friends can result in extremely mutually-agreeable publicity, such as when Amal wore another bespoke Stella McCartney outfit during her Venice wedding celebrations last year. The all-white ensemble of wide-legged trousers, floppy hat, top and bag made headlines.

And there are times, such as at the 2014 Met Ball in New York, when the association is evidently commercial. Stella took a table at the event - costing £16 000 a plate - and her invited guests, including Rihanna, Reese Witherspoon and Cara Delevingne, acted as ambassadors for her fashion house.

Cara, nice shy girl that she is, posted an Instagram picture of her perfect rear in a pair of rather exclusive skin-tight white pants which had been monogrammed with her name by Stella.

Macca’s daughter is a Met Ball aficionado. In previous years, she’s invited the likes of actresses Cameron Diaz, Liv Tyler and Salma Hayek to the fundraiser. All turned up in her outfits.

Close friend Gwyneth Paltrow also attended (in guess what?) in 2011. The actress went through a phase of wearing a lot of Stella McCartney when she was living in Belsize Park with Chris Martin.

For several years she and Stella hung out in London with Madonna. They’d work out in Madonna’s home gym with trainer Tracey Anderson every day and Stella even designed the singer’s stage costumes for a 2004 tour.

But the trio fell out over Madonna’s parsimonious insistence that Gwyneth and Stella should pay to use her gym. The Material Girl hasn’t been seen in a Stella McCartney dress since.

Another old friend is Kate Moss, who is a “face” of the Stella McCartney brand and star of its current advertising campaign. As you might expect, she’s quite often seen wearing Stella McCartney clothes - such as the ‘Illusion’ bodysculpting dress which she wore in 2012.

There’s another designer with a musical past who’s never been a friend: Victoria Beckham. In fact, there’s talk of a bitchy rivalry.

Not that Stella will care too much - she’s well known for a take-no-prisoners briskness in personal dealings. And of course, her privileged status as the daughter of a Beatle also gave her the ability to network in the celebrity milieu like an absolute pro.

Daily Mail

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