Stella McCartney unveils collection inspired by 'the men in my life'

The designer’s menswear range managed the ultimate coup – it outshone stars like Kate Moss and Orlando Bloom at the launch

In fashion, there’s no party like a Stella McCartney party – and that was the case on Thursday night. For the launch of her first menswear collection, shown at London’s Abbey Road studios, made so famous by her father, the likes of Kate Moss, MIA, Orlando Bloom and Professor Green turned up, while Beth Ditto and Darryl McDaniels, the “DMC” in Run DMC, performed.

Really – for once – celebrity attendees and performances weren’t the main event at this event. Instead it was the clothes: a long-awaited move into menswear. McCartney’s easy, wearable and fun aesthetic translates well here, as seen on models wearing long slouchy cardigans, souvenir jackets, mod-ish tailoring and her take on the football scarf. Here, she talks to us about menswear, her dad’s shirts and not taking fashion too seriously.