Stella McCartney's office-inspired Fashion Show wows Paris Fashion Week

Stella McCartney drew her audience to an office building on Wednesday for her namesake label's winter 2025 runway outing. The show featured a feminine line-up of power suits, low-waisted trousers, broad-shouldered jackets, and glittering eveningwear.

Guests, including French First Lady Brigitte Macron, actor Cameron Diaz, and designer and movie producer Tom Ford, were greeted on an upper floor with a sweeping view of the outskirts of Paris and a packet of sticky notes on their seats. The seats were arranged around desks, water coolers, and hulking copy machines.

Model Natalia Vodianova opened the show wearing an all-grey ensemble: a double-breasted jacket paired with glossy boots that rose above the knees and matching gloves, her hair pulled into a neat ponytail. Adding texture, thick, hooded sweaters, jeans, and suits embellished with tassels and elaborately draped minidresses followed.

"I was thinking the best of, the best of, the best of," McCartney said after the show, noting she sought to relay her label's day-to-night designs for her first show as an independent designer.

A wardrobe for this season’s Stella woman. A boss, a mother, a lover. She does it all, enjoying every aspect of her working day whilst having fun and being herself at night.Instagram

In January, McCartney, who famously does not use leather or fur, announced she was repurchasing LVMH's minority stake in her label but continues to advise LVMH on sustainability matters.

"It's just always been the goal, always the dream, and it's the right time," she said of the split.

For Wednesday's show, which featured pole dancers performing in sparkling leotards, McCartney said she wanted to focus on exotic dancing rather than exotic skins, the use of which has "just got to end."