{"id":268796,"date":"2026-02-01T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/268796\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:26:08","slug":"stella-mccartney-becomes-ambassador-for-central-saint-martins-m-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/268796\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella McCartney Becomes Ambassador for Central Saint Martins M School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLONDON \u2014 Stella McCartney<\/a> is taking her sustainability<\/a> campaign to Central Saint Martin\u2019s, becoming the first industry ambassador for its new M School, which offers fashion, jewelry and textile courses.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCentral Saint Martins<\/a> is where I found my voice as a designer and business founder. I\u2019m here to champion sustainable materials, encourage innovators to engage with education and push for meaningful support so the next generation has the tools to lead,\u201d said the designer.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcCartney graduated from CSM, part of the University of the Arts London, in 1995. She received an honorary degree from University of the Arts London in 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcCartney has been a sustainability<\/a> trailblazer for more than two decades, having eschewed fur, feathers and other animal byproducts since she founded her brand in 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCreativity begins long before the sketch \u2014 it starts with the decisions of how and what we make. If fashion is going to change, education has to be at the center of that,\u201d she said during a conversation with Sarah Mower, British Fashion Council ambassador and a fashion journalist.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the early days of her label, McCartney said she faced pushback from the luxury fashion industry for her eco-friendly and animal-free designs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was pretty ridiculed,\u201d she said. \u201cThe snobbery and elitism around the fashion industry and luxury sector has never come comfortably to me anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that leather, though used across the industry, \u201cis the most un-luxurious and un-glamorous material on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMcCartney also talked about her efforts to develop regenerative materials and her work with textile innovators to develop products such as mycelium leather and sequins made from seaweed.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added while 98 percent of her 2026 pre-fall collection<\/a> was made from responsible materials, there is still much work to be done. She said developing sustainable materials and manufacturing needs constant investment, while the wider industry needs to adopt environmentally-conscious practices.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the talk, attendees browsed eight types of sustainable materials used by McCartney. Items ranged from a gold pendant made by The Royal Mint out of recycled gold and silver to a mini dress made with plant-based feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Stella McCartney is taking her sustainability campaign to Central Saint Martin\u2019s, becoming the first industry ambassador…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28630,146,85,46,34410,3594],"class_list":{"0":"post-268796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-central-saint-martins","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-stella-mccartney","13":"tag-sustainability"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}