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SMUGGY STELLA
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I have just been reading that the walking Smugfest, Stella McCartney has been awarded an OBE for "services to fashion". That's like me getting an award for services to teetotalism! In case you missed it she was also awarded Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Wonders will never bloody cease! On dreary, dark Mondays like this when I should be getting stuck into all the work piling up on my desk, (but my hip flask is distressingly empty), I simply have a quick traipse through Stella's website to cheer myself up. Stella's designs are lauded as being animal friendly, but they aren't exactly women friendly. There is always so much that makes me laugh. Take this for example
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BUY ME!
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This is selling for £2,995/€3,690/$4,812. And it's 80% polyester. As is Stella, herself, if her permanently shiny face is anything to go by. What a bargain! Now, it says that this is the Last one! on the website so skip on over there immediately if you have money to burn and want the silky soft feel of the world's most expensive polyester on your delicate hide.
If blue isn't your colour never fear, I have something for you too.
This is one of the most hideous jackets I've ever seen. The good news is, it only costs £1,120. This is also the Last one! - hopefully this is because it was the only one. It's a heady,luxurious mix of polyamid, elastane and ugliness. Alas, it's only available in the shade Clinical Depression.
We all know how important accessories are of course, so here we have my top pick.
This little beauty comes in at a mere £1,175. It's only available in this shade called Back on the Drugs. But you do get a lovely cheap-as-chips rhinestone for your money!
I just want to know who the hell is buying this crap? Because if you're that crazy and keen on wasting money, let's meet up and spend an afternoon in Paris together! Something tells me that if her squillionaire father Sir Paul was to suddenly drop dead, his auditors would find every cupboard in his mansion stuffed full of Stella's "designs". All with the tags still on. In fact he has probably spent most of his fortune indirectly financing her career to the extent that when he does shuffle off his musical coil there'll be nothing left for the rest of them to inherit.
I must now get back to looking very serious and pretending to be busy - it's called work, apparently. Why isn't Paul McCartney my daddy?
MEOW!
Sulky I was feeling so blue until I saw this post up and I've just read it twice cackling away the whole time! What a cure for a Monday, thank you so much dollface!
ReplyDeleteI have often wondered the same thing: who buys these poly rags, maybe it is Paul hahaha!
Glad you had a laugh, Dani - I must use my lunch hours for blogging in future! I bet that Papa Paul is now having to stash her monstrous creations under the floor boards by now! His house must be one giant tinder box with all that polyester. Fire hazard!
DeleteThat jacket is a monstrosity. Oh and if a crazed spendthrift offers you a trip to Paris, I'll carry the bags for the price of a blowout at Chanel.
ReplyDeleteShe is the Frankenstein of clothes designers. If the crazed spendthrift is Sir Paul, ( it's got to be him!) he'll be carrying OUR bags to try and make amends for enabling his talentless offspring. Only the fact that he used to be a Beatle will save him from ending up wrapped around the wheels of a bus.
DeleteThanks. This is just what I needed - reading this post and seeing the pictures, my lips immediately curved upwards.
ReplyDeleteHorrible, terrible clothes and the materials used and the prices!
Indeed - WHO buys these ( other than Macca )?
And WHO would like to buy them ( given the cash )? Is there even anyone, WHO´d take them for free?
And remember all that horrendous leopard print stuff you showed us? I think her designs are the stuff of nightmares for the rest of us! I'd take them for free - but only if a flamethrower was made available to me.
DeleteLol!! Finally, Sulky speaks :) I totally agree with you - Stella's creations are pedestrian at best and I'm just as baffled that anyone would willingly spend that kind of money on them. I also find her personally very boring and plain - she doesn't seem to fit the image of a 'designer.'
ReplyDeleteShe is incredibly dull to listen to. Now I know who Victoria Beckham has been modeling herself on! I think she foists her creations on to her celeb friends, who then go into hibernation if they can't bear the shame of being seen in them.
DeleteAre you kidding me? I don't know what stuns me more --- that somebody would pay this much or that somebody would actually wear this stuff. I wouldn't wear this clothing in these images even if it was given to me for free! Bleh!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't wear any of it under any circumstances! The prices are laughable, but I suppose it keeps her off the streets.
DeleteYou are so bad, now when I see that color jacket on someone, I will spew coffee out all over the room and say, "Oh my god, it's the Clinical Depression colour!"
ReplyDeleteDid you see the white and gold uniforms for the Olympics? They were only surpassed in ugliness by the giant horses on the front of the TEAM USA by Ralph Lauren.
So happy to see your post, I was missing my Sulky Kitten fix!
Apparently she didn't design the white and gold tracksuits,Kay! But that doesn't excuse her for the truly awful performance and podium wear monstrosities! She says it took her THREE YEARS to come up with these. Three years!! To make a pigs ear out of the British squad's outfit. She should have been locked up, not given an OBE.
DeleteHey, I wear polyester too!
ReplyDeleteI hope you didn't pay $4,753 Canadian dollars for it!
DeleteYou are a very naughty kitten. Have you been at the catnip again? Thought so.
ReplyDeleteYou speak the truth, though. Stella is a mystery to me. WTF is going on with that jacket. It frightens me.
Catnip cocktails - I thought I'd overdosed (as if!)when I saw that clutch bag. I had to clutch my paws over my eyes in disbelief when I saw that jacket. People have been imprisoned for lesser crimes.
DeleteOh... it was a clutch bag. I thought it was an eye glass case ... or something... in a shade called "Faux Pucci"...
DeleteAnd there we have my favourite phrase of the day - Faux Pucci. Jesus, I can't stop saying it now!
DeleteFinally I have discovered someone else who thinks Stella is crap. Always have. Regardless of what it costs, would you want to wear it even if you received it for free? Rich daddy indeed. Just depressing really.
ReplyDeleteMel.
I made better outfits for my teddy bear when I was a six year old. Someone gave me a huge swathe of green lurex material (poor teddy!) and I sewed him a whole wardrobe of trendy clobber with my own little paws. Some parents would worry about their child wielding sharp needles & scissors, but mine just wanted to open a sweatshop.
DeleteBahaha! This explains a lot. Hehehe.
DeleteOK - done laughing, you're hysterical even when I don't totally agree with you. My ex-husband and father of my daughter was the son of a very famous person, and it's not an easy thing to ever get credit for anything you do on your own, no matter how hard you try. In some ways it's a real curse to try to get away from that shadow. I think Stella's designs are a mixed bag. Way too expensive for sure, but her classic blazers are very well cut, as are her classic skirts and pants. She never has said her stuff is environmentally friendly, just no animal cruelty, which is how she was raised, and you as a kitten, should be happy about that! You have picked some of the ugliest of her designs, and I know people love to hate her, but I'm a bit of a fan, although have none of her clothing. But, you remember, I also think Gwyneth Paltrow is OK.
ReplyDeleteOh, I knew you'd like her, Kathy! You've just reminded me that her best friends are the awful Gwynnie and the super-skank herself Kate Moss. I don't care whether her stuff is environmentally friendly or not, I'd just like to know how she can put a price of £600 on what is essentially a plastic/vinyl bag. (earlier collection). How many other students at St Martin's had super models to show off their collection in their final year? Still, she does at least acknowledge that having famous parents is a "luxury" that most people aren't afforded!
DeleteSulky - all "designer" bags are way overpriced and have little to do with the cost of materials and manufacturing, as you know. $4k for a Chanel? $10+ for an Hermes? In the land of designer handbags (those being recognizable as "status symbols") - her's is modestly priced. Overpriced yes, but it ALL is. Sorry for my contrary mood this morning. xo
DeleteI know, I know - I'm just enjoying whining about her. And you are not being contrary - I appreciate any/all of your comments. (Says me, stroking my $55,000 backpack from Mary-Kate and Ashley! purr.rrr).
DeleteLet's whine about French women being so superior in everything, especially smoking and stretching the truth.
DeleteHello Sulky
ReplyDeleteI was getting all excited thinking this was your giveaway!! As my mother would say, these rags and the wearers look like something the cat would bring home in the morning. Your teddy must have looks like Michael Flatley in the green lurex coutiere. (have you seen Mario Rosenstock's impersonation of Michael Flatley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0s4uw78e-0)
Thanks for brightening our Monday
Helen xx
Helen, he is hysterical - I love him! My poor teddy looked like a chubby elf - so yes, I guess he did look like Mr Flatley. Ha!
DeleteDear Sulky Kitten
ReplyDeleteSometimes you are evil and wrong, but not this time.
Ms McCartney's clothing designs of oversized jackets, peg leg pants and high, pointy shoes are so universally unflattering, that I did think she was being subversive in an Emperor's New Clothing way. However, I suspect you are right, her father's house is full of so much synthetic clothing that the static electricity generated is used as an alternate fuel source.
Now get back to work.
Evil? Wrong? Moi? You must have mistaken me for some other Kitty! (haughty sniff).Ha!
DeleteAh, cute Kitten, you speaketh the truth that no other dares!! and I thought it was only me, and that I am not able to get it with the Stella stuff. It always looks dreary to moi. Plus I can run up a polyester lace frock for, say, $40!! Hurrah for rich Daddies. Happy New Year, Sulky! xx
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather have one of your creations than one of hers, Patricia! Run a few up, stick fake labels in them and you can sell them for $3,000 each!
DeleteYou speak the truth dear Sulky.
ReplyDeleteI dare say it helps somewhat to have a daddy who was a Beatle...?
xx
Too right! I suppose I should be grateful she didn't go down the singing route!
DeleteBut Sulky, I'm certain the polyester MUST be organic!!
ReplyDeleteAnd certainly no petrochemicals were used in its production because that would be poisoning our environment and our animals.
The bown jacket is just plain garbage. I wouldn't donate something that ugly to the Salvation Army...and they probably wouldn't take it!
I know - I wouldn't line my litter tray with it! It would be a more charitable act to keep it incarcerated in a dank dungeon, chained to a wall. No charity should have to suffer its ugliness.
DeleteStella is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteShe makes me think that I too can 'create' clothes from old bri-nylon sheets, clippy rugs, dish cloots and antimacassars.
I have it on good authority that that clutch is actually a melted Twix packet that Stells had to hide from her chum Victoria. Vics gets terribly offended, because the Twix has a better figure than she does, natch.
What about cruelty to pathetic synthetic polymers, eh!
Ha! Old bri-nylon sheets would be a step up for Stella. Don't you start giving her ideas!
DeleteI will not judge the fashion worthiness of her designs since I am a walking fashion faux pas! You would laugh if you saw me in the morning walking my cats in the backyard with my stretch polar fleece head to toe and donning my huge over the glasses sunglasses and knit hat. I'm with you Sulky, these items are way over priced! I do feel sorry for those famous rich kids who have to struggle under the enormous burden of their more famous and rich parents ...we really just can't know what they go through (yes, that is sarcasm).
ReplyDeleteStretch polar fleece, sounds cosy! (said the woman who'd live in pyjamas if it was legal!)You are probably Sir Ranulph Fiennes perfect pin-up girl.
DeleteNo getting around it, most of her designs are crap. I always thought the one with the talent at Chloe was Phoebe Philo.
ReplyDeleteHer days must have been spent saying " Hmmm, no Stella - shall I just put this in the "to burn" pile?".
DeleteSulky, Sulky, you are the voice of reason in the freaking kingdom of the naked king... I swear it is as though the King's invisible clothes is everywhere and no one has the courage to say the king is naked... although with these examples I might want to go around naked or buy a 100% polyester dress at Forever 21 for 30 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBetter to spend $30 than $3,000 - I'd rather have one of your paintings!
DeleteI knew Stella as a gel when she went night clubbing in the South East with my daughter,those children where brought up very frugally,no private schooling....no way would PM subsidize a business loss.
ReplyDeleteNo I am not a beatles fan,nor do I care for Stella's clothes...but she is obviously doing well,however famous a father/mother you have business depends on the person running it.
I feel sad that this woman gets kicked mostly because of whose she is the daughter of PM....MEOW!! Ida
Ida! You Bitch!! How dare you disagree with me, you McCartney groupie!! Ha - ONLY KIDDING! It's not a secret that she got the creative directorship of Chloe solely because of her famous name. She was only 2 years out of college, and if her name had been Stella Smith it would simply never have happened. And,she has acknowledged herself, that because of her parents she was never subjected to the financial compromises that most struggling young designers experience. Fame by association is just a fact of life - it happens. It's only when the fame isn't justified or backed up by some talent that I get a bit tetchy. Hence my little whine about Stella.
DeleteDarlinkkkk me a bitch!!! that word does not even come close to the real me...watch yourself kitten I have very large claws.Ida
DeletePut'em up, put 'em up - I'm the one with nine lives! Meowww!
DeleteIf the fabulous Ida won't write a blog, someone should at least gather all her comments on various blogs together for our reading pleasure.
DeleteI know! She's quite the little sauce pot!
DeleteSo funny, you are! I actually like most of Stella's designs but maybe not that horrid jacket.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, the chances of me ever forking out the big British pounds for her things is in the snow-ball-in-hell category. Unless I find something floating around in my nearest thrift shop, that is.
Adrienne,if you ever see anything like that jacket...RUN!!!
DeleteO, you know how I feel about this overpriced.. crap.. And I must admit to wondering about the genuineness of Stella's talent and success, in view of the very slight helping hand she might have gotten from her dad. Then I told myself I'm just being jealous lol
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather have one of your cute creations than anything by Stella. She'll be gnashing her teeth with jealousy when she reads that! Ha!
DeleteYes - what is with the shiny face? Too much botox? Can't be, as she eshews make-up apparently. Polyester lace will never do it for me even at this "cheap as chips" price - or the pink trou or the shoulders on steroid jacket.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the linebacker shoulders are ridiculous. I also think her hair is an indicator of her personality - dull and lifeless.
DeleteOh Kitty, welcome back, you had me in stitches or was it bao kicking the hell out of me, not sure!
ReplyDeleteAnyhoos, I do respect this lady & her work, but her own dress sense, that's a little dodge, no? What I didn't know was that little piece was made from 80% polyester, I think i'm about to have a nosebleed just thinking about it, might as well go to Primark!
I'm also having another chuckle at the shiny face comment - she hasn't aged one bit, and as a mum of 3 or 4 (i've lost count) there's got to be some lines somewhere!
Have a happy non-teetotal weekend! Plus have a cocktail (or 5) for me too please!
x.o.x.o
She's got 4 kids - Polyester, Viscose, Nylon and Pleather. I think wrinkles just slip off her face. Are you missing a little weekend drinky? Don't worry Sparky - I'll have your share! xx
DeleteThose are my favorite baby names, along with Ashtray.
DeleteHa! I think you've just nailed the perfect name for Kate Moss's next child!
DeleteHow the heck did I miss this post? GEEZ....I need to get with the program!! Meow........
ReplyDeleteHowever, not meowing here but HOWLING at the Clinical Depression colour shades. Dreadful!! I too wonder how much of Stella's career has been "assisted" by having Sir Paul as her Dad and Madonna, Naomi, Kate, Gwyneth etc as best buddies. I agree with Kathy's comment above that she probably hasn't had it easy with her career when her daddy is famous and she has had to prove herself, but then there's the other end of the spectrum where people feel they can't ever criticize her work because she is the daughter of a Beatle.
Even the models on her website stand as if they're embarrassed to be seen in the clothes. Either that, or Stella has them at gunpoint!
DeleteHow many polyesters must die? Esp the rare blue ones. Hilarious, Sulky!
ReplyDeleteHa! She also has these truly horrific citrus shorts in rayon and acetate, but I couldn't show them because I don't want any of my readers to go blind.
DeleteHello Sulky, I see that you're still in good form. It's hard to believe anyone would pay those kind of prices for polyester. I really hate polyester.
ReplyDeleteThat's because you're much too classy for polyester, Susan! What would the cats think?!
DeleteI hope Joan Rivers reads this and invites you to be on Fashion Police. Just imagine the fun you two would be together!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter loves her perfume - at least it's not overpriced any more than all perfume is.
I want her to dump Melissa and adopt me! Then I could be with her all day, every day. I love her.
DeleteTruly, that is quite possibly the ugliest jacket I've ever seen.
ReplyDeletePearl
It is DEFINITELY the ugliest jacket I've ever seen!
DeleteTotally agree with you! I think most of the designer items are extremely over priced for no damn reason. Yes Even if it was silk, it shouldnt cost them so much!!
ReplyDeletemegha
http://meghafashionista.blogspot.com
Stella also does shapeless and ugly in silk - she's versatile!
DeleteI wish you would write every day...I don't know how I missed this gem last week...you crack me up...completely concur on all of it!! Is Polyester the new Cashmere? lol
ReplyDeleteI must force my paws to the keyboard more frequently! I'm beginning to think Stella has a fetish for polyester.
DeleteFunnily enough I just saw her stuff in Neiman's in Walnut Creek, took a hard left when I saw all the zeros. Think I'm going back to the days when cashmere was the new polyester. But I'm such an old fuddy duffy...
ReplyDeleteThink of the static all that polyester must create - it's a fire hazard!
DeleteThank you from my heart to your reply... here I was dying with anxiety afraid of being fired, but at the same time, I am tired of swallowing my answers dealing with these spoiled, egotistical executives. You just made me feel it is ok.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has had their share of terrible bosses, it can be incredibly frustrating. I remember on my first day at a new job, my boss tried to argue that I had agreed to a different (lower!) salary. As if. And it went downhill from there, because I wouldn't back down.
DeleteI saw that awful blue dress at Harrods 4 days ago so there must be many "last ones" ! There was no price tag on it, I suppose they were too ashamed to show it !
ReplyDeleteWas it lying forlornly in a Bargain Bin? Maybe the window dressers will cut it up and use it for dusters!
DeleteIt's funny, because I actually like most of her designs! But let's say there's no accounting for taste. And the fact that Stella (is the only high end designer who) refuses to use any fur/leather in her products really makes me appreciate her even more. I absolutely don't look down on other people buying her stuff. Personally, I wouldn't be able to afford filling my closet with it, yet I really appreciate people who see further than their superficial fashion nose. In my opinion there's really an overconsumption of leather and fur nowadays (or meat for that matter), and it's pretty cool she can manage to brand/market her brand in a way that people actually are willing to pay so much money for cruelty free goods. And honestly, even though she makes some polyester things (so does Acne and plenty of others..), the biggest part of her collection is of incredibly high quality, moreover require mad skills. She sure is lucky for being Paul's daughter, and it undoubtedly comes with a lot of benefits, but it's not that she asked for that when she was born.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I can remember having read an interview with Stella in which she stated that the money she has gotten to invest in starting her own company did not come from her father, but from the Gucci group. :-)
I just don't think she is capable of designing a paper bag. Even if she did, it would probably retail for £500! Yes, you're right she was very happy to have the financial backing of Gucci - maybe she conveniently forgot about their love of seal-fur boots when she was signing the contract.
DeleteHer stuff is definitely ridiculously high priced and inaccessible to most people. But the fact that one doesn't like her designs, doesn't make her a bad designer without skills and knowledge. And unfortunately I don't think there are many investors/companies out there that are not (in some way) involved with animal cruelty or environmental pollution, the nasty truth..
ReplyDeleteI just don't think a designer whatever their skill level should call themselves a "luxury brand" and then push out PVC handbags and polyester. Having examined a lot of her clothing line in person, I was not even remotely impressed by either the tailoring or fabrics. But, as I've already stated this is simply MY opinion. I don't think she eats small children for breakfast, or anything!
DeleteI feel you and respect your opinion, BUT I still think she is a great answer to the 'rich' vegetarians/vegans on this planet. PVC obviously does not have the same 'luxury' image as leather, but I do think today's technology makes it possible to come very close to the quality and properties of leather. She is obviously not using PVC because she wants to be a pain in people's ass, or save money, but simply to show that one can also look fashionable without wearing animal skins. I have heard (and read) from other people that her shoes are actually rather comfortable and durable, considering it's faux leather. Try look around on the internet to find fashionable high-end vegan shoes, don't think you'll find many.. Hence her popularity amongst vegetarians. I honestly think this concept of luxury faux leather products is just hard to understand if one does not care much for animal welfare (and high fashion at the same time).
ReplyDeleteDo you work for Stella? I also understand your vegetarian stance and why you support her efforts. But the production of synthetic materials also has a deleterious effect on the ecosystem and therefore a knock-on effect on the animals who live in it. Maybe she is only concerned about some animals? Then again, she's vegetarian, not vegan.
DeleteNo I don't work for Stella, but wouldn't mind! I just find it interesting to discuss about this topic. Of course, the production of synthetics has terrible impacts on the environment, but I guess you can only do so much as an individual to 'retain' this planet, and everyone does it in their own way (or not at all). It's probably impossible to not at all be (in)directly involved with environmental pollution, animal torture or any other ethical issues (the production of laptops, phones, clothing etc. has sure been bad for the environment and polluted other people's drink water, yet we're all using these products). But yes, she would definitely be cooler if she were a vegan, only using natural fabrics, etc!
DeleteBtw, haven't spotted much polyester in her current clothing collection though!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you were blinded by the acetate and rayon? I'm kidding!
DeleteI guess she wouldn't be able to keep her head up only using cotton, linen and other natural fabrics! Stella sure can improve her lines, but for now she's still on top of the pyramid when it comes to innovative sustainable designers (what other well-known luxury designer has ever made biodegradable shoe soles?). Curious to see who will kick her of her vegetarian throne at some point.
DeleteI'd be happy to kick her anytime! I'm joking!
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