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Stella Shines in British Fashion AwardsStella McCartney was last night named designer of the year at the British fashion awards.
The award, which comes weeks after McCartney's seven-year-old label announced it had turned a small profit for the first time, is indicative of how McCartney has established herself as a respected designer.
The Stella perfume and diversification into sunglasses and a range of sportswear for Adidas have helped to balance the books, while McCartney's aesthetic, which mixes sportswear influences with tailoring and vintage-feel feminine fabrics, has become part of the fashion vernacular - a fact proved by the Marks & Spencer collections for next summer, which feature pale, silky parkas, a McCartney signature piece.
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