Stella McCartney Quotes

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend.

I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.

This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.

For me, being involved in fashion is fun. But I like to be relatable and to wear things that other people can wear, too.

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.

I was never a chiffon and satin person. I am always a cotton person. It's just the way I am.

I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.

I prefer flat shoes and comfort: I feel more like myself.

I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.

I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed, don't you?

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

I’d rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.

I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.