Stella McCartney
Designer: Stella McCartney

• “Stella McCartney did some spring cleaning for fall-winter, replacing her old wardrobe standbys with a more textural and sculpted collection than usual.” [AP]
• “McCartney ticked all the trend boxes for this season–oversized, mannish silhouettes, pinstripe suiting, a plaid print, and, well, some kind of ugly shoes. That’s not to say the look wasn’t very cool.” [The Daily Beast]
• “Stella McCartney’s oeuvre received a jolt of the ’90s today.” [Daily Front Row]
• “The tailoring was spot on: dark and pinstriped, recalling Stella’s tenure on Savile Row, but volumised, big, purposeful, confident.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “In a season where clothing that embraces more than overpowers the wearer is prevalent across the board Ms McCartney was in her element.” [Grazia Daily]
• “The power play between masculine and feminine codes in fashion, territory the British designer has always prowled, has been a recurring theme of this fashion season. So at her Paris Opera house catwalk show, McCartney cut to the chase.” [The Guardian]
• “This show was a triumph for Ms. McCartney, taking her to that magical fashion place where she has a distinct personality, vision and message. It could be summed up as a dynamic woman of today with a sporty energy who expects her clothes to work as hard as she does.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “A haberdasher’s dream–except everything is a little off-kilter.” [The New York Times]
• “When it comes to trend spotting this season Stella McCartney hit the nail on the head.” [NOWFASHION]
• “Never mind that Bono, Paul McCartney, Kanye West, and Jessica Alba were sitting front row. And never mind that the setting was Paris’s gorgeously gilded Opéra Garnier. The clothes on Stella McCartney’s Fall 2013 runway were plenty spectacular on their own.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “Her new collection for Fall wasn’t exactly sexless, but it did have a cooler, less come-hither sensibility than usual, which seemed to play against her strengths.” [Style.com]
• “Stella McCartney … is thinking big, bigger, and biggest about the shape of things to come.” [Vogue.com]
• “Of all the masculine-feminine mixes we’ve been seeing this season, this collection had a clever new take and it was all very Stella.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “Gender play, girls-will-be-boys, call it what you will, the incorporation of mannish motifs into women’s clothes is an oft-used, classic conceit. In the collection she showed on Monday, Stella McCartney manipulated one of its obvious elements–pinstripes–into something new and utterly engaging.” [WWD]