Be Stella my heart

Stella McCartney named green designer of the year 2

Stella McCartney
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Beatle offspring Stella McCartney was named the first-ever Green Designer of the Year at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards earlier this week. The vegetarian fashion designer doesn't use leather or fur in her designs, and seeing as her mom was animal-rights activist Linda Eastman and Sir Paul also hearts the animals, it's clear the McCartney doesn't fall far from the tree.

Green style guru Danny Seo once told Grist, "Stella McCartney is great -- her shoes and accessories are all faux leather, but it's not a PVC-based synthetic, it's polyurethane-based, so it's actually not so terrible for the environment, and the products are beautiful." But she won't have designs on you unless you can pony up some dough. (So that's how Stella got her greenbacks.)

Holly Richmond is a Seattle-based freelance writer and editor, and was previously Grist’s editorial intern and marketing assistant.

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  1. Angelsnecropolis Posted 8:40 am
    08 Nov 2008

    Blah!Just what the American people need... another high dollar eco-fashionist whose products will never reach the hands of the average American.
    This isn't the kind of eco-fashion we need. Some people contend that being green is easy or not expensive but not when I have to pay 10 bucks more for a plain organic cotton T-shirt that I have to order online cause it's not sold at JC Pennys and the likes.
    I'm more interested in hearing about American made clothes that are sustainable and competitive and available to the masses... huh? What was that? They doesn't exist? Dammit!

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  2. honeysucklebarb Posted 3:27 am
    10 Nov 2008

    Congratulations StellaCongratulations Stella i am real proud of you

    You stand your ground about what you believe in

     Your whole family is proud of you

    your mom is smiling in heaven

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