THE NEW CREATIVITY

It’s sustainability, STELLA MCCARTNEY says, in between telling STEPHEN SHORT about horses

HORSES ARE WHAT Stella McCartney wishes to talk about. We're sitting in Café Gray Deluxe, atop The Upper House in Admiralty. The glint in McCartney's eye when she picks the topic and the huge smile that crosses her face are manifestations of relief after a long day. She's on a whistle-stop tour of Asia, checking her retail outposts, gaining consumer insights and giving an occasional interview.

#legend grants her wish. “Horses are so magical, so superior,” McCartney says. “They have this incredible strength. There is something very sexy and majestic about a horse. And they have this amazing balance between masculine and feminine. When you ride a horse you have to be in control, otherwise they smell your fear. You have to own it.”

It's not easy being Stella McCartney.

She's been campaigning, pretty much singlehanded, for more than a decade, promoting a green dream that the fashion world will remove its rose-tinted designer specs and get real about how it wastes and wantonly abuses ever-diminishing resources.