Stella McCartney Receives a TIME Earth Award Presented By Her Friend, Cate Blanchett

Stella McCartney believes our style shouldn’t come at the expense of our values; it should reflect them. A lifelong vegetarian, her fashion house does without animal products including leather, feathers, and fur in any designs, instead leveraging innovative materials. “We’ve worked with spider silk that’s grown in labs. We’ve made handbags out of mushrooms, and we’ve turned apple waste into shoes,” McCartney said on stage in London on March 26, as she received a TIME Earth Award, presented by her friend, actor and producer Cate Blanchett. Read more: https://time.com/collection/earth-awards/2026/stella-mccartney-acceptance/ Subscribe to TIME’s YouTube channel ►► http://ti.me/subscribe-time Subscribe to TIME: https://ti.me/3E3UCqt Get the day’s top headlines to your inbox, curated by TIME editors: https://ti.me/48dFNwQ Follow us: X (Twitter): https://ti.me/3xTVwSk Facebook: https://ti.me/3xWI2Fg