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Stella McCartney makes powerful environmental rallying cry at Paris Fashion Week

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Eco-friendly designer Stella McCartney pulled no punches at her latest Paris Fashion Week show.

The autumn/winter 2024 collection opened with ‘a message from Mother Earth’.

A collection of screens next to the runway showed pictures of nature, with a voiceover read by actors Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren – representing Mother Earth – asking: “Why are you harming me?”

The voiceover continued: “But what will be left

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