Stella McCartney's Sexy, Eco-Friendly Collection for Green Cultural Creatives

To use a phrase from London’s Independent newspaper, Stella McCartney defies the notion that ethically-minded, Cultural Creative luxury designers must live in “sartorial Siberia”.

Within the emerging Cultural Creative consumer population, we have a subdivide between ethically conscious, globally-minded, environmentally-concerned consumers who are vegetarian, PETA supporters and those who are not. (See: Honorary Smart Sensuality Designer Alber Elbaz at Lanvin.)

Stella McCartney, Fall 2009 via Style.comStella McCartney is most certainly the world’s most successful vegetarian fashion designer. McCartney’s label, part of the Gucci group, is known for both sexiness and sustainability.

Because sustainability isn’t actually visible — in fact, Stella defies us to get a stinky-poo attitude about her green clothes — it’s accurate to say that Stella McCartney is known for designing highly wearable, beautiful clothes for Smart Sensuality women, who love fashion.

For Fall 2009, McCartney returns to her roots, moving away from her sportier collections of recent years (note that Stella’s sport collection is sold by Adidas).

If her sexy, sporting sensibility seemed more obviously eco, then Stella challenges our assumptions and expectations about fashion eco-beauty with her exquisite slip dresses and Smart Sensuality lace insets for Fall 2009.

Style.com calls McCartney’s lingerie-inspired pieces the prettiest slipdresses we’ve seen from New York to Paris. Conceptually McCarney weaves a ‘recycled design effect’, splicing silk with tulle to create the illusion of nudity with panels and peek-a-boo insets.

Stella McCartney, Fall 2009. Via Style.comMcCartney’s ‘fragile’, refined, elegant creations seem cut from the same cloth as Alber Albaz’s ribbon dress, worn with his reversible ribboned fur coat, offering both Cultural Creative and Modern options but not green or vegetarian fabrics and materials.

Stella takes the Cultural Creative, green customer and proves that she can look just as exquisitely dressed as her impure-green Cultural Creative cousin. This is Smart Sensuality style.

Impossibly high leather leggings were all the rage in the Fall 2009 designer collections. Stella McCartney scored a eco-conscious bullseye on this trend, as well.

Stella McCartney, Fall 2009. Via Style.comIf Prada set the Cultural Creative stage (see Prada Dons Hip Boots, Sending Smart Sensuality Women Into Economic Cleanup Mode) with this highly-functional, no-nonsense leg look, Stella swooped in like a protected bald eagle, making an equally big statement with her sexy, eco-ethical leather-look boots.

Stella McCartney, daughter of Sir Paul McCartney and his deceased wife Linda, is a lifelong vegatarian and a committed, talented and financially-viable example that green needn’t be a separate-category business.

McCartney’s goal is to challenge us with an aesthetic “why not”, on the subject of Going Green. A