I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather, and leather is luxury.' To me, it's the complete opposite: leather is everywhere - it's so cheap a material; it's so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn't have a luxury element to it.
Interpretation
This quote challenges the notion of luxury tied to materials, specifically leather, arguing it is mass-produced and exploitative rather than exclusive.
Stella McCartney's quote critiques the conventional perspective on luxury materials like leather, asserting that the mass production and exploitation inherent in the fashion industry strip away any true luxury status. She highlights the ethical implications of using leather, drawing attention to the millions of animals sacrificed each year for fashion, and suggests that true luxury should align with values of sustainability and compassion rather than mere opulence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a fashion industry seminar to spark discussions on ethical sourcing.
I never want to promote an ad that makes women feel bad about themselves, because when I was young, I never felt rich enough or fashionable enough or good enough. I felt talked down to by luxury fashion labels. There was a disconnect. They made me feel we weren't right for each other.
It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
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