Nous vous livrons ci-après une interview de Stella McCartney réalisée par Mary Hart pour « Entertainment Tonight. »
MARY HART: You know, Stella, I [have been] following your career — what an incredible rise. [Has] fashion really been your obsession since you were a young girl?
STELLA McCARTNEY: I suddenly realized the other day that I used to watch a lot of Disney films. My mom used to love all the Disney animated films and ‘Cinderella’ was one of my favorites — it was that little bit where the little mice make her dress. … It was a pink dress and the birds got all the ribbons. I must have liked [fashion] at an early age ’cause that was a big scene for me.
MARY: And obviously your mother has been a tremendous influence on your career. How so?
STELLA: Looking at the way she dressed was really a big influence for me, especially the stuff in the ’70s, and much more — just her character is a very positive influence. I try and design clothes that will inspire women to have more confidence and feel better about themselves. I think her own freedom, the way she cut her own hair, was a very confident way of dressing, especially at that time.
MARY: It does seem like you have a lot of celebrity friends. Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow being two close friends who love your clothes and brag about you and your clothing. How did you meet Madonna?
STELLA: She came to my studio in London right before I left for Paris, when I just had left college. She came and bought some clothes and I made her pay for them through the nose. She basically funded my whole second collection really. But she came as a client. She didn’t actually know who I was when she met me. She didn’t know who my parents were.
MARY: Well I know the friendship has lasted. Does it make a difference to have famous people wearing your clothes? Is that an important part of your business?
STELLA: Yeah, I think in this day and age it is. We don’t ever pay people to wear our clothes. I am definitely as interested in real normal people wearing my clothes. In fact I find it more of a reward if I go into a store that holds my clothes and I see women looking at it and responding to it and talking about it and discovering details. That to me is the best thing about what I do.
MARY: You know what the thing that does come through is what an easy person you are to talk to and what a down-to-earth person you are. From what I have read or know about you it seems that your parents worked very hard to make sure you kids had a normal, close-knit family upbringing.
STELLA: Yeah, there were six of us living in a two-bedroom house until I was, like, 15, so close-knit is probably the word you would use. I had a very normal upbringing. I went to state schools, and just kind of normal in a very abnormal kind of way.
MARY: I know your dad comes whenever he can to the showing of your new collection. Do you still get nervous? Does that give you an extra sense of excitement about showing a collection?
STELLA: I think when any of my family come to my shows it’s something. It’s more important to me that my friends and family enjoy the show than anything else.
MARY: And Stella, I would be remiss not to ask: The tabloids did make so much out of your father remarrying and a possible rift in the family. What are your feelings about that?
STELLA: I would never talk about things like that just because those kind of things are just very private to me. And obviously everything’s totally fine in my family. Just too private for my own good, I’m sorry. I don’t tend to talk about my fiancé, my brothers or my sisters or my dad in that private sense. Boring I know, but some things are more just sort of sacred, I guess.
