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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the Year of the Horse and I\u2019ll do anything I can to get near a horse, to be honest with you,\u201d said Stella McCartney after her show. \u201cSo I thought I\u2019d bring them to my day job and have equine therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tGiven the news cycle and the state of the world, one couldn\u2019t fault her.<\/p>\n
\n\tEspecially not after taking in the majestic spectacle that played out in the middle of the arena at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Equestrienne de Paris where the British designer paraded her fall collection on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\n\tA dozen horses, half of them white and the other black, cantered in formation and even rolled on the ground at the behest of horse artist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pignon, who was behind a similar display back in 2023.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe display warmed the cockles of an audience that included McCartney\u2019s father Paul, Gayle King, Isla Fisher, Machine Gun Kelly and Oprah Winfrey, who\u2019d flown in for the occasion \u2014 and to see the younger McCartney receive France\u2019s Legion of Honor on Thursday, the designer revealed.<\/p>\n
\n\tHaving equines in her show tracked back to the designer\u2019s love and respect for nature. \u201cI try to remind people in the world of fashion that we don\u2019t have to kill animals and we can work with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMaking sure the industry understands that the only way forward is to find a way to make it a win-win with nature is what\u2019s been powering the brand for the past quarter of a century after all.<\/p>\n
\n\tSignificantly lightening the fashion footprint is doable: 93 percent of the materials used for this collection are made from sustainable materials, including 100 percent recycled denim, non-plastic sequins and lead-free crystals. Certified and responsibly sourced textiles go without saying.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd if that sounds like the work of a lifetime, it\u2019s not far off the mark.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis show really started with my birth,\u201d quipped McCartney. \u201cI think I was just really inspired to talk about my life in clothes and the wardrobe and the journey of the beginning and the middle and the now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSquarely front of mind were her upbringing in Scotland and the internships she undertook as a 15-year-old at Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent in the 1980s, a period that lent its nipped waists and defined shoulders to the lineup.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe trotted out a spectrum of of options, ranging from ultra-feminine long slipdresses with lace spliced diagonally on one side of the bust and ladylike daywear to tomboyish collegiate polo shirts and anoraks tucked into stirrup jeans and mannish tailoring aplenty, with cuts going from slimline to generous.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor those who fall somewhere in the middle, there was plenty, too.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn no particular order: a roomy peacoat with an oversize martingale dropped low on the back, paired with thigh-high boots; a shawl-collar jacket with a soft basque, worn with cargo trousers; plenty of high-necked long-sleeve dresses with and without handkerchief peplum details, and a liquid-looking sequined silver halter top that came with immaculately cut black slacks.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere were constants like playful touches \u2014 that \u201cMy dad is a rock star\u201d tank closing the show! \u2014 and the tension between masculine and feminine, but the lineup also hit trends that are emerging from the runways of the season, like power dressing.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt suggested that while McCartney has her eye on the sustainable goalpost, she also has her finger on the pulse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt\u2019s the Year of the Horse and I\u2019ll do anything I can to get near a horse, to be honest with you,\u201d said Stella McCartney after her show. \u201cSo I thought I\u2019d bring them to my day job and have equine therapy.\u201d Given the news cycle and the state of the world, one couldn\u2019t fault her. Especially not after taking in the majestic spectacle that played out in the middle of the arena at the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Equestrienne de Paris where the British designer paraded her fall collection on Wednesday. A dozen horses, half of them white and the other black, cantered in formation and even rolled on the ground at the behest of horse artist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Pignon, who was behind a similar display back in 2023. The display warmed the cockles of an audience that included McCartney\u2019s father Paul, Gayle King, Isla Fisher, Machine Gun Kelly and Oprah Winfrey, who\u2019d flown in for the occasion \u2014 and to see the younger McCartney receive France\u2019s Legion of Honor on Thursday, the designer revealed. Having equines in her show tracked back to the designer\u2019s love and respect for nature. \u201cI try to remind people in the world of fashion that we don\u2019t have to kill animals and we can work with them,\u201d she said. Making sure the industry understands that the only way forward is to find a way to make it a win-win with nature is what\u2019s been powering the brand for the past quarter of a century after all. Significantly lightening the fashion footprint is doable: 93 percent of the materials used for this collection are made from sustainable materials, including 100 percent recycled denim, non-plastic sequins and lead-free crystals. Certified and responsibly sourced textiles go without saying. And if that sounds like the work of a lifetime, it\u2019s not far off the mark. \u201cThis show really started with my birth,\u201d quipped McCartney. \u201cI think I was just really inspired to talk about my life in clothes and the wardrobe and the journey of the beginning and the middle and the now.\u201d Squarely front of mind were her upbringing in Scotl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}