Stella McCartney receives a CBE for services to fashion and sustainability from King Charles in investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle
Fashion designer Stella McCartney received a CBE at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
McCartney famously designed the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding reception dress and Team GB’s uniforms for the London 2012 Olympics.
The 51-year-old, who champions environmentally friendly garment production with no animal products, collected her CBE for services to fashion and sustainability after being recognised in the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours.
She was presented with the honour by King Charles with Skunk Anansie singer Deborah Dyer, best known by her stage name Skin, also among those receiving honours.
Stella previously received an OBE for services to fashion.
Honour: Fashion designer Stella McCartney received a CBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle on Tuesday for her services to fashion and sustainability
The designer looked chic in a navy dress belted at the waist and accessorised with a headband with a veil.
McCartney, 51, appeared at the Cop26 climate change summit in 2021 where she complained that the fashion world had been ‘getting away with murder’ and called for the industry to cut down on waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
As part of her green drive, she recently launched her new Frayme bag, the first in the world to be made out of vegan leather as well as her sustainable skincare line STELLA.
King Charles and McCartney discussed her vegan fashion range at the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow, and he reportedly found her exhibition ‘enlightening and inspiring’.
Motivated by her late mother Linda, a passionate animal rights activist, McCartney has not used fur, leather or any animal skins in her label since it launched in 2001.
During a September 2022 interview with The Telegraph Stella spoke about wanting to do things in live that her late mother Linda never had the chance to,
Linda died of cancer at the age of 56 in 1998 after 29 years of marriage to Stella’s father, Beatles legend Paul.
‘I was riding my horse there the other morning and living my best life and thinking, all that matters is that I get to do all the things I wish my mum had,’ Stella said.
CBE: The 51-year-old, who champions environmentally friendly garment production collected her CBE after being recognised in the Queen’s 2022 Birthday Honours
Big day: The designer looked chic in a navy dress belted at the waist and accessorised with a headband with a veil
Designer: As part of her green drive, she recently launched her new Frayme bag, the first in the world to be made out of vegan leather as well as her sustainable skincare line