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The listening exercises in Business Spotlight Übungsheft (p. 5) are based on the article “So Stella” (Names & News, p. 8). Here, we provide you with the audio file and transcript.
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So Stella
Some children of celebrities walk in their parents’ footsteps, but not Stella McCartney. Rather than follow her father, ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, into music, or try photography, her mother’s profession, Stella was drawn to the world of fashion. After working at the French fashion company Christian Lacroix and doing an internshipPraktikuminternship at British Vogue, she studied fashion at London’s Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design.
At age 25, McCartney took over from Karl Lagerfeld as creative director at Chloé, and revitalize sth.etw. neues Leben einhauchenrevitalized the French luxury brand. She designed a wedding dress for Madonna, and outfits for actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler. She also created the uniforms worn by the British athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.
In 2001, McCartney launched her eponymousgleichnamigeponymous brand through a joint venture with the traditional fashion house Gucci. A lifelong vegetarian, she even got the Italians to agree to her no-fur and no-leather rules. And she wants to go much further in making fashion sustainablenachhaltigsustainable. Her new range of trainers (UK)Turnschuhetrainers, called S-Wave, are compostablekompostierbarcompostable — even the soleSohlesoles are made of bio-degradablebiologisch abbaubarbiodegradable plastic. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chiefChefredakteur(in)editor-in-chief of Vogue, told TIME magazine: “It was impossible for fashion to think of luxury and sustainability in the same breathim selben Atemzugin the same breath before Stella changed that.”