Stella McCartney Quotes

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

I really like the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection - all of those kind of laser-cut leather dresses.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

It's just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That's definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Fashion today is available to everybody in a way that it's never been before: you've got every designer you've ever heard of working for H& or Target. That's fantastic.

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.

On a red carpet, you really want to feel your best, so to work with a designer who will shape a dress to your figure and take into consideration your opinions is really a blessing.

What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way each person approaches it.

My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style.

My designs are slightly subversive in their way; it can be in the cut or the colour, but they're always obtainable: they're not so difficult that a 40-year-old woman wanting to go to a cocktail party looking foxy and a little bit different in something well-made would be alienated by them.

You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.

If you want to go high-end, that's great, but my dream has always been to make fashion affordable enough so you're not limited by your budget.

Working with Uniqlo is probably the most incredible template of democracy in fashion, and it's nice that my design can be accessible to anyone, on all different levels.