Coordinates	12°2′36″N77°1′42″N
name	Stealing Beauty
director	Bernardo Bertolucci
producer	Jeremy Thomas
writer	Susan MinotStory:Bernardo Bertolucci
starring	Liv TylerJoseph FiennesJeremy IronsSinéad CusackD.W. Moffett
music	Richard Hartley
cinematography	Darius Khondji
editing	Pietro Scalia
distributor	20th Century Fox
released	March 29, 1996 May 16, 1996 June 14, 1996
runtime	113 minutes (theatrical)119 minutes (DVD release)
country
language	EnglishFrenchItalianSpanishGerman
gross	$4,722,310 }}

''Stealing Beauty'' (French: Beauté volée; Italian: Io ballo da sola) is a 1996 drama film directed by Academy Award-winning Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot. It stars Liv Tyler, D.W. Moffett, Jeremy Irons, and Rachel Weisz. The film focuses on an American teenage girl who travels to a lush Italian villa to stay with family friends of her poet mother who recently committed suicide. The film was actress Liv Tyler's first lead role, which garnered her critical attention, and because of this, is often seen as a starting point for her film career.

While the film takes place in Italy, the primary language spoken by the characters is English - however, Italian, French, Spanish, and German are also spoken by several of the characters through the course of the film.

''Stealing Beauty'' premiered in Italy in March 1996, and was officially selected for the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in France in May. It was released in the United States on June 14, 1996.

Plot

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager, is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa there. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted. Lucy's mother has committed suicide since then, and she also hopes to discover the identity of her father, whom her mother hinted was a resident of the villa. Once she arrives, Lucy meets and befriends a variety of eccentric locals who were companions of her mother, and begins to form relationships and connections with each of them. Lucy has decided to lose her virginity and becomes an object of intense interest to the men of the household, but the suitor she finally selects is not the initial object of her affection.

Cast

Liv Tyler as Lucy Harmon

Sinéad Cusack as Diana Grayson

Donal McCann as Ian Grayson

Rebecca Valpy as Daisy Grayson

Jeremy Irons as Alex Parrish

Jean Marais as M. Guillaume

Rachel Weisz as Miranda Fox

Joseph Fiennes as Christopher Fox

D. W. Moffett as Richard Reed

Soundtrack listing

# Hooverphonic: "2 Wicky" (written by Burt Bacharach) # Portishead: "Glory Box" (written by Geoff Barrow) # Axiom Funk: "If 6 Was 9" (written by Jimi Hendrix) # John Lee Hooker: "Annie Mae" # Liz Phair: "Rocket Boy" # Stevie Wonder: "Superstition" # Nina Simone: "My Baby Just Cares For Me" (written by Walter Donaldson) # Billie Holiday: "I'll Be Seeing You" (written by Sammy Fain) # Mazzy Star: "Rhymes Of An Hour" (written by Hope Sandoval) # Cocteau Twins: "Alice" # Lori Carson: "You Won't Fall" # Sam Phillips: "I Need Love"

Hole's song "Olympia" (AKA 'Rockstar') was also used in the film. Tyler was shown dancing and singing wildly along to the track, listening with her headphones and walkman.

Critical reception

The critical reception for the film was mixed to positive, with some critics praising the Italian setting and the slow pace, while others criticised it for its apparent self-indulgence, and lack of character development and drama.

According to Roger Ebert of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', who gave it 2/4 stars, "The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model, suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to give her as a gift....The problem here is that many 19-year-old women, especially the beautiful international model types, would rather stick cocaine up their noses and go to discos with thugs on motorcycles than have all Tuscany as their sandbox."

Critics such as Desson Thomson of the ''Washington Post'', Mick LaSalle of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', and James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave negative reviews, with Berardinelli in particular, calling the movie 'an atmosphere study, lacking characters', and Thompson calling it 'inscrutable'.

Others, such as Jonathan Rosenbaum of ''Chicago Reader'', Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'', Janet Maslin of ''The New York Times'', and Jack Mathews of the ''Los Angeles Times'' were more positive, with Rosenbaum in particular praising the movie's 'mellowness' and 'charm'.

The film currently holds a 51% or 'Rotten' rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Although of the mixed reception to the film, Liv Tyler's performance was met with critical acclaim. making the movie her breakthrough role.

References

External links

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Coordinates	12°2′36″N77°1′42″N
name	Liz Phair
background	solo_singer
birth name	Elizabeth Clark Phair
born	April 17, 1967New Haven, Connecticut
origin	Chicago, Illinois, United States
instrument	Vocals, guitar, piano
vocal register	Contralto - Mezzo Soprano
genre	Alternative rock, indie rock, lo-fi, pop rock
occupation	Singer-songwriter
years active	1991–present
label	Matador, Capitol, ATO Records
website	www.lizphair.com
notable instruments	Fender Duo-Sonic II }}

Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Phair began her career in the early 1990s by self-releasing audio cassettes under the moniker Girly Sound, before signing with the independent record label Matador Records. Her 1993 debut studio album ''Exile in Guyville'' was released to acclaim: by the turn of the 21st century, it had been ranked by ''Rolling Stone'' as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ten years after the release of her debut, Phair's fourth album, ''Liz Phair'', was released on Capitol Records and her music began to move in a more pop rock-oriented approach. Phair has sold nearly three million records worldwide. Her latest album, ''Funstyle'', was released on July 3, 2010.

Life and career

1967–1992: Early life and career beginnings

Phair was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but was raised in Winnetka, Illinois, by wealthy adoptive parents. She graduated from New Trier High School in 1985. During high school, Phair was involved in student government, yearbook, and the cross country team, and took AP Studio Art her senior year, among many other advanced-level classes. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and majored in art history.

Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw and Phair moved to San Francisco together, and Phair tried to become an artist there. After being unsuccessful as an artist in San Francisco and moving back to Chicago, Phair began writing songs and recording homemade tapes under the name Girly Sound, and supported herself by selling her charcoal drawings on the streets of Wicker Park . She became part of the alternative music scene in Chicago and became friends with Material Issue and Urge Overkill, two of Chicago's upstart bands to go national in the early 1990s, as well as Brad Wood and John Henderson, head of Feel Good All Over, an independent label in Chicago. (A later attempt at re-recording the Girly Sound tapes failed after arguments between Henderson and Phair.)

1992–2003: ''Exile in Guyville'', ''Whip-Smart'' & ''Whitechocolatespaceegg''

After asking Wood who the "coolest" indie label was, Phair called up Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador Records, in 1992 and asked him if he would put out her record. Coincidentally, Cosloy had just read a review of Girly Sound in ''Chemical Imbalance'' that very day and told Phair to send him a tape. Phair sent him a tape of six Girly Sound songs. Cosloy recalls: "The songs were amazing. It was a fairly primitive recording, especially compared to the resulting album. The songs were really smart, really funny, and really harrowing, sometimes all at the same time. . . . I liked it a lot and played it for everybody else. We usually don't sign people we haven't met, or heard other records by, or seen as performers. But I had a hunch, and I called her back and said O.K."

Cosloy offered a $3,000 advance, and Phair began working on a single, which turned into the eighteen songs of ''Exile in Guyville''.

''Exile in Guyville'' was produced by Phair and Brad Wood, and released in 1993. The album received uniformly excellent reviews. The album received significant critical acclaim for its very blunt, honest lyrics and for the music itself, a hybrid of indie rock and pop. The album established Phair's penchant for exploring sexually explicit lyrics such as in the song "Flower": "I want to be your blow job queen/...I'll fuck you and your minions too." By contrast, her trademark low, vibrato-less monotone voice, sometimes compared to indie folk singer Quinn Marston, gave many of her songs a slightly detached, almost deadpan character. The combination of these factors won Phair many dedicated fans. Most notable among her detractors, producer Steve Albini was involved in a public flamewar printed in Chicago's free art and culture weekly, the ''Chicago Reader''. Albini wrote an angry response to an article by Billy Wyman (Hitsville), entitled "Not From the Underground: 1993 in Review", stating his belief that Phair and several other artists had shown an "explicit rejection of much of the insularity that increasingly characterizes underground music". Albini identified the aforementioned artists as "pandering sluts" and said Phair was the modern Rickie Lee Jones, "more talked about than heard, a persona completely unrooted in substance, and a fucking chore to listen to". Humanities professor Camille Paglia chimed in on Phair's ''Guyville'' era, stating, "I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the [Rolling] Stones. Dream on."

Hoping to capitalize on the acclaim for her debut album, the release of Phair's second album received substantial media attention and an advertising blitz. ''Whip-Smart'' debuted at #27 in 1994 and "Supernova", the first single, became a Top Ten modern rock hit, and the video was frequently featured on MTV. Phair also landed the cover of ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' with the headline "A Rock Star is Born." Nonetheless, the album received mixed reviews, and although it was certified Gold (shipments of at least 500,000 units), it ultimately did not sell as well as expected, as it was hoped the album would introduce Phair to a wider, more mainstream audience. Following ''Whip-Smart'', Phair released ''Juvenilia'', a collection of some early Girly Sound tracks and several B-sides, including her cover of the 1980s classic by The Vapors, "Turning Japanese".

In 1994, Phair made several live television and radio appearances in an effort to promote ''Exile in Guyville'' and ''Whip-Smart'', including David Letterman performing "Never Said" and "Supernova" and Jay Leno performing an acoustic version of "Whip-Smart". She even performed "Alice Springs" live on 'Good Morning America''.

She also appeared on the MTV alternative rock show ''120 Minutes'' performing "Never Said", "6'1", "Cinco de Mayo" and "Supernova" live at various times during 1994 and early 1995.

In 1995, Phair married Jim Staskauskas, a film editor who had worked on her videos. They had one child, James Nicholas Staskauskas, on December 21, 1996. The couple divorced in 2001. Phair recorded a song called "Down" in response to her divorce. A quasi-stop-motion animation video using photographs was created for it by filmmaker Rodney Ascher (he shot fifty rolls of still photographs in L.A.'s Chinatown), and posted on her official website LizPhair.com. The song was never officially released on any of her albums.

Phair's third album, entitled ''Whitechocolatespaceegg'', was finally released in 1998 after some delays, which included a disagreement about content; at one point, the label rejected the album as submitted, and asked Phair to write a few additional radio-friendly songs for the set. The album displayed a more mature Phair, and reflected some of the ways marriage and motherhood affected her. The single "Polyester Bride" received some airplay, but the album was no more successful than her previous records. To promote the record Phair joined Lilith Fair. Phair performed on the main stage along with acts like Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott. She also opened for Alanis Morissette on her 1999 Junkie Tour.

She portrayed the role of Brynn Allen, opposite her good friend Robin Tunney, in the film ''Cherish''.

2003–2008: ''Liz Phair'' & ''Somebody's Miracle''

In 2003, her self-titled fourth album was released on her new label, Capitol Records. Phair had not released an album in several years; she had been working on her record, as well as making guest appearances on other tracks (she lent backing vocals to the Sheryl Crow hit "Soak Up the Sun") a song that she also co-wrote.

Initially, Phair worked on several album tracks with songwriter Michael Penn as the producer. When she submitted the finished Penn-produced album to Capitol, the label gave it a lukewarm reception and was unwilling to release it as submitted. Having already exhausted her recording budget, label president Andy Slater offered Phair more money to record only if Phair agreed to work with the production team known as The Matrix (best known as songwriters for Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne) to come up with some singles for the album. Phair's collaboration with the Matrix resulted in only four songs, but much of the media attention focused solely on the Matrix-produced tracks, which were a departure from her earlier work. The album received many negative reviews, especially from the independent music press, who accused Phair of "selling out" by making the record very pop-oriented.

''Liz Phair'' provoked a strong backlash from critics and disappointed fans of her earlier work. Many decried her for "selling out", and she became a "piñata for critics." ''The New York Times''' Meghan O'Rourke's review, titled "Liz Phair's Exile in Avril-ville", said that Phair "gushes like a teenager" and had "committed an embarrassing form of career suicide."

The debut single "Why Can't I?", co-written by The Matrix, did reach the Top 40 charts in North America, and its follow-up, "Extraordinary," was also somewhat successful: it appeared on the soundtrack to the 2004 movie ''Raising Helen'' and was the promotional theme for the 2004 Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament; in March 2007, the song began appearing in Gatorade television advertisements. Phair continued to flirt with sexually explicit themes, however, as was most evident in a track called "H.W.C.", standing for "Hot White Cum". Phair also offered backing vocals on Jimmy Eat World's "Work" track on their ''Futures'' album.

''Somebody's Miracle'', Phair's fifth album (and final album with Capitol Records), was released on October 4, 2005. The album returned to a more traditional rock sound, mixing the mood of Phair's earlier work with a more mellow sound. The album received mixed reviews and was not a chart success.

2008–2010: ''Exile in Guyville'' reissue & career as TV composer

Phair signed with ATO Records in early 2008 and re-released ''Exile in Guyville'' on June 24, 2008. ''Exile in Guyville'' was reissued on CD, vinyl, and in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska," "Say You," and an untitled instrumental. Phair has also completed a new documentary DVD, "Guyville Redux." This DVD features an introduction by Dave Matthews, founder/co-owner of ATO Records, and describes the making of the album, in the male-dominated, Chicago independent music scene of the early 1990s (which included Urge Overkill, Material Issue, and Smashing Pumpkins), associated with the Wicker Park neighborhood where many of these bands often performed.

"''Exile in Guyville'' is miles more complex than the porn-star manifesto it was often considered," said Alan Light (former editor-in-chief of ''Spin'', ''Vibe'', and ''Tracks'') in an essay written for the reissue. "Phair spoke for the uncertainties facing a new generation of women, struggling to find a balance between sexual confidence and romance, between independence and isolation. . . . ''Exile in Guyville'' sat at the center of a culture in transition."

In May 2009, Phair released a new song "Faith and Tenderness," sold exclusively at Banana Republic.

In recent years Phair has broadened her career by serving as a composer for television dramas. Beginning with the theme song for NBC's ''The Weber Show'' she has also worked on the CBS show ''Swingtown'', the CW reboot of ''90210'', for which she won the 2009 ASCAP award for Top Television Composer, and most recently has been hired on as composer for the USA Network show ''In Plain Sight''.

2010–Present: ''Funstyle''

Phair had said in an interview that she is writing a book and working on a new album. On July 3, 2010, her official website announced a surprise link to download her new album ''Funstyle''. It contains 11 songs, many of which are experimental or at least unorthodox, compared to most of her earlier released songs. The song "Bollywood" was available to stream from the site for a limited time, before Phair took it down. The album download is available for $5.99, in three different electronic forms, with cover art.

As of July 10, 2010, there's a note to her fans posted on her official website of which says the following:

How To Like It.

You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep.

Yes, I rapped one of them. Im as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but dont mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens.

This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards.

-Liz

Phair also had an interview with the ''Wall Street Journal'' where she explained the falling out with her record label, ATO, after a change in management. "The people who were still there didn’t like, or didn’t know what to do with, the music I was making, so we just stalled out and I asked to leave."

Phair went on tour to promote the album, playing many songs from ''Guyville'' and ''Whip-Smart'', along with songs from all throughout her repertoire. The Funstyle Tour ran from October '10 to March '11; the last show being at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

Phair has also been reviewing books, including Keith Richards's Life. She spoke with The Nashville Scene about her reviewing. Currently, Phair is in the process of writing a new album and novel, as well as continuing TV scoring.

Discography

''Exile in Guyville'' (1993)

''Whip-Smart'' (1994)

''Whitechocolatespaceegg'' (1998)

''Liz Phair'' (2003)

''Somebody's Miracle'' (2005)

''Funstyle'' (2010)

Awards

Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy AwardsASCAP Awards

Year !! Award !!Category !! Work !! Result
1995	Grammy Awards	|	"Supernova"	Nomination
1996	|	Best Female Rock Vocal Performance	"Don't Have Time"	Nomination
2009	|	Top Television Composer	90210 (TV series)>90210"	Won

References

External links

Liz Phair — official site.

Liz Phair — official Facebook.

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Coordinates	12°2′36″N77°1′42″N
birthname	Liv Rundgren
birth date	July 01, 1977
birth place
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	1994–present
spouse	Royston Langdon (2003–2008; 1 child) }}

Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film ''Silent Fall''. She then appeared in supporting roles in ''Empire Records'' (1995), ''Heavy'' (1996) and ''That Thing You Do!'' (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role ''Stealing Beauty'' (1996). She followed this by starring in supporting roles including ''Inventing the Abbotts'' (1997) and ''Cookie's Fortune'' (1999).

Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy ''Jersey Girl'', the indie film ''Lonesome Jim'' (2005), the drama ''Reign Over Me'' (2007) and big-budget studio films such as ''Armageddon'' (1998), ''The Strangers'' (2008) and ''The Incredible Hulk'' (2008).

Since 2003, Tyler has served as a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador for the United States, and as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics.

Early life

Tyler was born Liv Rundgren at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She is the first-born daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and former Playboy Playmate (Miss November 1974), and Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith. Her mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann, after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5, 1977 issue of ''TV Guide''. She is of Italian, German, Polish, Russian and English ancestry on her father's side and also has three half-siblings: Mia Tyler (born 1978), Chelsea Anna Tallarico (born 1989), and Taj Monroe Tallarico (born 1992). Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington.

At birth, Buell claimed that rock star Todd Rundgren was Tyler's biological father. At age nine, Tyler discovered that she was Steven Tyler's daughter after meeting him and noticing a resemblance she shared with his other daughter, Mia. When she asked her mother about the similarity, the secret was revealed. The truth about Tyler's paternity did not become public until five years later, in 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name. Buell's alleged reason for the initial decision was that Steven was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of her birth. Since learning the truth about her paternity, Liv and Steven have developed a close relationship. They have also worked together professionally, once when she appeared in Aerosmith's music video for "Crazy" in 1993 and again when Aerosmith performed many of the songs in the film ''Armageddon'' (1998), in which Liv Tyler starred.

Tyler attended the Congressional Schools of Virginia, Breakwater School and Waynflete School in Portland, Maine, before returning to New York City with her mother at the age of 12. She went to York Preparatory in New York City for junior high and high school, after her mother researched the school to accommodate Tyler's ADHD. She graduated in 1995, and left to continue her acting career. When asked about the way she spent her early life, Tyler said: "For me, I didn’t get much of a childhood in my teen years because I’ve been working since I was 14. But that also kept me out of trouble. When everybody was doing acid and partying like crazy, I was at work on a movie in Tuscany ... having my own fun, of course, but it was a different kind of thing. I have no regrets. I love the way my life has gone."

Career

Early work

At the age of 14, Tyler received her first modeling job with assistance of Paulina Porizkova who took photos of her that ended up in ''Interview'' magazine. She later starred in television commercials. However, she became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and decided to go into acting. She never took acting lessons. Tyler first became known to television audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith's 1993 song "Crazy".

Tyler made her feature film debut in ''Silent Fall'' in 1994, where she played the older sister of an autistic boy. In 1995, she starred in the comedy drama ''Empire Records''. Tyler has described ''Empire Records'' as "one of the best experiences" she has ever had. Soon after, she landed a supporting role in James Mangold's 1996 drama ''Heavy'' as Callie, a naive young waitress. The film received favorable reviews; critic Janet Maslin noted: "Ms. Tyler ... gives a charmingly ingenuous performance, betraying no self-consciousness about her lush good looks."

Popular success

Tyler had her breakthrough role in ''Stealing Beauty'' (1996), in which she played Lucy Harmon, an innocent, romantic teenager who travels to Italy intent on losing her virginity. The film received generally mixed reviews, but Tyler's performance was favored by the critics; ''Variety'' wrote: "Tyler is the perfect accomplice. At times sweetly awkward, at others composed and serene, the actress appears to respond effortlessly and intuitively to the camera, creating a rich sense of what Lucy is about that often is not explicit in the dialogue." ''Empire'' noted, "Liv Tyler (here radiantly resembling a ganglier young Ava Gardner) with a rare opportunity to enamour, a break she capitalises on with composure." The film was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, who chose Tyler for the role after meeting with a number of young girls in Los Angeles, including Tyler's music video co-star Alicia Silverstone. Bertolucci claimed "there was something missing in all of them". He later admitted that what he saw in Tyler was a ''gravitas'' he described as "a New York aura". During promotion of the film, Tyler admitted she wanted to separate herself from the character during production; "I tried my damnedest not to think of my own situation. But at one point, after a take, I just started to cry and cry. I remembered when I found out about my dad and how we just stared at each other from head to toe taking in every nook and cranny."

She later appeared in ''That Thing You Do!'' (1996), a movie about a fictional one-hit wonder rock band called The Oneders, following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their plunge back to obscurity. The film was written and directed by Tom Hanks. It grossed over $25 million worldwide, and was met with favorable reviews. The following year, she appeared in ''Inventing the Abbotts'' in 1997, in which she played the daughter of Will Patton and Barbara Williams' characters. The movie is based on a short story by Sue Miller. ''Entertainment Weekly'' declared Tyler's performance as "lovely and pliant". That same year, Tyler was chosen by ''People'' magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.

Tyler next appeared in ''Armageddon'' (1998), where she played the daughter of Bruce Willis' character and love interest of Ben Affleck's character. The film generated mixed reviews, but was a box office success earning $553 million worldwide. The movie included the songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love Are You On" by Aerosmith. In a 2001 interview with ''The Guardian'', she admitted that she turned down the role in ''Armageddon''; "I really didn't want to do it at first and I turned it down a couple of times, but the biggest reason I changed my mind was because I was scared of it. I wanted to try it for that very reason. I mean, I'm not really in this to do amazing things in my career - I just want it to be special when I make a movie."

She was then cast in the drama ''Onegin'' (1999), a film based on the 19th century Russian novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, in which she portrayed Tatyana Larina and co-starred with Ralph Fiennes. Tyler was required to master an English accent, though Stephen Holden of the ''New York Times'' felt that her approximation of an English accent was "inert". The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. That same year, she appeared in the historical comedy film ''Plunkett & Macleane''.

She later appeared in two films directed by Robert Altman, ''Cookie's Fortune'' (1999) and ''Dr. T & the Women'' (2000). In ''Cookie's Fortune'', she was part of an ensemble cast that included Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Chris O'Donnell, and Patricia Neal. Her performance well received among critics; Salon.com wrote: "This is the first time in which Tyler's acting is a match for her beauty (she's always been a bit forlorn). Altman helps her find some snap, but a relaxed, silly snap, as in the cartoon sound she makes when she takes a midday swig of bourbon. The lazy geniality of the movie is summed up by the way Emma [Tyler's character] saunters off to take a swim with her cowboy hat and pint of Wild Turkey." ''Entertainment Weekly'' also noted that Tyler is "sweetly gruff as the tomboy troublemaker". In the romantic comedy, ''Dr. T & the Women'', she played Marilyn, a gynecological patient of Richard Gere's character, who is the lesbian lover of his daughter, played by Kate Hudson.

In 2001, Tyler played the object of infatuation for three men (Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Paul Reiser) in the black comedy ''One Night at McCool's''. In discussion of the role, she said: "This was definitely the first part where I had to be so physically aware and have people so aware of me physically. Maybe it's not hard for anybody else, but it is a bit for me. I mean I love my body and I feel very comfortable in my skin, but this was tough." Peter Travers of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "Tyler, a true beauty, gives the role a valiant try, but her range is too limited to play this amalgam of female perfection."

Recent work

In 2001, she starred in the feature film ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', directed by Peter Jackson. She played the Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel. The film is based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. The filmmakers approached Tyler after seeing her performance in ''Plunkett & Macleane''. She learned to speak the fictitious Elvish language that was created by Tolkien. Mick LaSalle of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' noted that Tyler's performance was "lovely and earnest".

A year later, Tyler again starred as Arwen in ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'', the second installment of the series. The film received favorable reviews. Tyler spent months before filming learning swordfighting, to be used during the concluding battle scenes in ''The Two Towers'', though her scenes from the battle were removed after the script was changed. The film was an enormous box office success, earning over $926 million worldwide, out grossing its predecessor, which earned over $871 million. In 2003, Tyler featured in the third and last installment of the series, ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''.

Following the success of ''The Lord of the Rings'', she appeared opposite her ''Armageddon'' co-star Ben Affleck in writer-director Kevin Smith's romantic comedy ''Jersey Girl'' (2004), playing a woman who re-opens a widowed father's heart to love, played by Affleck. In an interview with MTV News, Tyler confessed that she felt "scared and vulnerable" while filming ''Jersey Girl'', adding "I was so used to those other elements of the character [Arwen]. On ''The Lord of the Rings'', a lot of things were done in post-production, whereas this was really just about me and Ben sitting there, just shooting off dialogue." However, she reiterated that doing ''Jersey Girl'' was what she wanted to do.

In 2005, she appeared in Steve Buscemi's independent drama ''Lonesome Jim'', where she was cast alongside Casey Affleck, as a single mother and nurse who reconnects with an old fling who has returned to their small town of Indiana after a failed run as a novelist in New York. The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Tyler's next appearance in film was in a supporting role as an insightful therapist who tries to help a once-successful dentist (Adam Sandler) cope with the loss of his family during the events of the September 11th attacks in ''Reign Over Me'' (2007).

In 2008, she starred in the horror-thriller ''The Strangers'' with Scott Speedman, a film about a young couple who are terrorized one night by three masked assailants in their remote country house. Although the film garnered a mixed reception among critics, it was a box office success. In an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'', she noted that ''The Strangers'' was the most challenging role of her career. "It was as far as I could push myself in every way: physically, emotionally, mentally."

She appeared in ''The Incredible Hulk'' (2008), in which she played Dr. Betty Ross, the love interest of the title character, played by Edward Norton. Tyler was attracted to the love story in the script, and was a fan of the television show. She said filming the part was "very physical, which was fun", and compared her performance to "a deer caught in the headlights". ''The Incredible Hulk'' was a box office success, earning over $262 million worldwide. ''The Washington Post'', in review of the film, wrote: "Tyler gives Betty an appropriately angelic nimbus of ethereal gentleness as the one Beauty who can tame the Beast ... during their most pivotal encounters."

Tyler is appearing in two films released in 2011: ''Super'' and ''The Ledge''. In April 2011, publishing house Rodale announced that Tyler and her grandmother Dorothea Johnson, a noted etiquette expert, have written a book called "Modern Manners." Rodale plans to release the book in May 2012.

Personal life

In 1998, Tyler began dating British musician Royston Langdon of the band Spacehog. She and Langdon became engaged in February 2001, and married in Barbados on March 25, 2003. On December 14, 2004, she gave birth to a son, Milo William Langdon. On May 8, 2008, the couple confirmed through representatives that they would be separating but remain friends. In an interview with the Australian ''Daily Telegraph'', Tyler revealed that her separation from Langdon led her to move to Los Angeles, explaining that it was hard to be in the New York home they shared. In June 2010, Tyler stated she was "far too sensitive" for casual dates, adding "I fall in love once in a blue moon."

Tyler is an active supporter of the charitable United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003. In November 2004, she hosted the lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake in New York City. Tyler also served as spokesperson for the 2004 Givenchy Mother's Day promotion, in support of UNICEF's Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) campaign.

Since 2004, she has donated to the Women's Cancer Research Fund to support innovative research, education, and outreach directed at the development of more effective approaches to the early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all women's cancers. In October 2007, Tyler, along with her mother, Bebe Buell and her grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, helped launch the Emergen-C Pink energy drink, in which the event was in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

She is good friends with designer Stella McCartney, model Helena Christensen and actresses Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow. Tyler was formerly a vegan, but has since begun to eat meat. In 2003, she became the spokesperson for Givenchy perfume and cosmetics; in 2005 the brand named a rose after her, which was used in one of its fragrances. In 2009, Tyler signed on for two more years as Givenchy spokesperson.

Filmography

!Year	!Film	!Role	!Notes
1994 in film	1994	''Silent Fall''	Sylvie Warden
rowspan="2"		Callie
''Empire Records''	Corey Mason
rowspan="2"	''Stealing Beauty''	Lucy Harmon	Nominated – Young Star Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film
''That Thing You Do!''	Faye Dolan
rowspan="2"	''Inventing the Abbotts''	Pamela Abbott
	Girl in Bus Station	Cameo appearance
		Grace Stamper	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Female PerformanceNominated – MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo Shared with Ben AffleckNominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress -Science Fiction
rowspan="3"	''Plunkett & Macleane''	Lady Rebecca Gibson
''Cookie's Fortune''	Emma Duvall
	Tatyana Larina	Russian Guild of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Actress
	''Dr. T & the Women''	Marilyn
rowspan="2"	''One Night at McCool's''	Jewel
''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
	''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''	Arwen Undómiel	Online Film Critics Society Award for Best EnsemblePhoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast
	''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King''	Arwen Undómiel	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a CastBroadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best CastNational Board of Review Award for Best Cast Nominated – Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble
		Maya
	''Lonesome Jim''	Anika
	''Reign Over Me''	Dr. Angela Oakhurst
rowspan="3"	''The Strangers''	Kristen McKay	Scream Awards for Best Horror Actress Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller
	Betty Ross
	Clare Cooper
rowspan="2"		Sarah
	Shana

References

Further reading

Corliss, Richard. "One life to Liv -- But can she act?." ''Time''. June 17, 1996. Accessed January 8, 2009.

Fischer, Paul. "The Liv Factor." Girl.com. 2001. Accessed January 8, 2009.

Mottram, James. "BBC Movies - Liv Tyler interview." BBC Films. December 5, 2001. Accessed January 6, 2009.

Mzimba, Lizo. "Liv Tyler on Two Towers: full interview." BBC News. December 10, 2002. Accessed January 7, 2009.

Head, Steve. "IGN: An Interview with Liv Tyler". IGN Movies. December 16, 2002. Accessed January 12, 2009.

Otto, Jeff. "IGN: An Interview with Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler." IGN Movies. December 17, 2003. Accessed January 8, 2009.

Fischer, Paul. "Exclusive Liv Tyler Interview." Girl.com. 2003. Accessed January 8, 2009.

Cole, Bethan. "Cover story: Liv a little." ''The Times''. February 29, 2004. Accessed January 13, 2009.

Head, Steve. "IGN: An Interview with Liv Tyler - Bringing it on home for Jersey Girl." IGN Movies. April 2, 2004. Accessed January 19, 2009.

Collura, Scott. "IGN: Liv Tyler Talks The Hobbit." IGN Movies. May 20, 2008. Accessed January 13, 2009.

Barnard, Linda. "It's a scream." ''Toronto Star''. May 31, 2008. Accessed January 9, 2009.

Palmer, Alun. "Interview: Liv Tyler on her son, work and marriage break up." ''Daily Mirror''. June 12, 2008. Accessed January 7, 2009.

Thompson, B. "Interview: Liv Tyler." ''Montreal Gazette''. June 12, 2008. Accessed January 7, 2009.

External links

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Coordinates	12°2′36″N77°1′42″N
name	Bernardo Bertolucci
birth date	March 16, 1940
birth place	Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
years active	1962–present
spouse	Adriana Asti (div.)Clare Peploe (1990–)
parents	Attilio Bertolucci (1911–2000)Ninetta Giovanardi }}

Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1941) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include ''The Conformist'', ''Last Tango in Paris'', ''1900'', ''The Last Emperor'' and ''The Dreamers''. In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

Origins

Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma, in the region of Emilia Romagna. He is the elder son of Ninetta, a teacher, and Attilio Bertolucci, who was a poet, a reputed art historian, anthologist and film critic. Having been raised in such an environment, Bertolucci began writing at the age of fifteen, and soon after received several prestigious literary prizes including the ''Premio Viareggio'' for his first book. His father's background helped his career: the elder Bertolucci had helped the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini publish his first novel, and Pasolini reciprocated by hiring Bertolucci as first assistant in Rome on ''Accattone'' (1961), where he met his first wife, Adriana Asti.

Bertolucci has one brother, the theatre director and playwright Giuseppe (b. February 27, 1947). His cousin was the film producer Giovanni Bertolucci (June 24, 1940 – Feb, 17, 2005), with whom he has worked on a number of films.

Bertolucci's first wife, Adriana Asti, starred in his early film ''Prima della rivoluzione''. In 1978, he married Clare Peploe, a British screenwriter who has since directed a few films as well.

Starting out with Pasolini

Bertolucci initially wished to become a poet like his father. With this goal in mind, he attended the Faculty of Modern Literature of the University of Rome from 1958 to 1961. As noted above, this is where his film career as an assistant director to Pasolini began. Shortly after, Bertolucci left the University without graduating. In 1962, at the age of 22, he directed his first feature film, produced by Tonino Cervi with a screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini, called ''La commare secca'' (1962). The film is a murder mystery, following a prostitute's homicide. Bertolucci uses flashbacks to piece together the crime and the person who committed it. The film which shortly followed was his acclaimed ''Before the Revolution'' (''Prima della rivoluzione'', 1964).

The boom of Italian cinema, which gave Bertolucci his start, slowed in the 1970s as directors were forced to co-produce their films with several of the American, Swedish, French, and German companies and actors due to the effects of the global economic recession on the Italian film industry. It has been speculated that this is the point in its history at which Italian cinema began to depend upon the international market.

A poetic personality

Bertolucci soon left Pasolini's poetic ideas behind in order to follow his own personal idea about cinema based more or less on the individuality of people who find themselves having to deal with sudden changes in their lives, both on an existential as well as political level, yet they have no clear cut solution, nor are they looking for one in many cases.

''Prima della rivoluzione''

The above theme is present in almost all of Bertolucci's works, starting with his second film, ''Prima della rivoluzione'' (1964), where this theme is very clear in the story of a young upper-middle agrarian class boy from Parma (Francesco Barilli), who, incapable of dealing with his best friend's suicide, throws himself into a relationship with a much older distant relative from Milan (played by Adriana Asti). Bothnof them know the relationship can never last, and when she leaves, the young man has no choice but to marry his previous girlfriend, who he does not love, but who comes from a wealthy family of high standing, so the marriage makes his family happy.

The scandal of ''Last Tango in Paris''

Bertolucci became famous in 1972, with the "scandalous" film ''Last Tango in Paris'', with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Leaud and Massimo Girotti, where sex is portrayed as the only possible answer, but not definite, to the conformity surrounding the characters; the protagonists in this film are, as they will be in many of the films to come, unstable beings, whose only way out is transgression. ''Last Tango in Paris'' presents Brando's character Paul as he finds comfort in an anonymous affair after the death of his wife in violent circumstances. The film caused controversy in Italy for an anal penetration sex scene, and it was sequestered by the censorship commission and all copies were ordered destroyed. An Italian court revoked Bertolucci's civil rights for five years and gave him a four-month suspended prison sentence. Many years after, when the general modesty had changed and the censorship commission had been abolished, the film reappeared (because Bertolucci had kept a clandestine copy) and was projected in a slightly censored version. The original copy, and the copies that had been preserved abroad, were used to make the DVD.

Becoming World Famous

Bertolucci increased his fame with his next few films, from ''Novecento'' (1976), an epic depiction of the struggles of farmers in Emilia-Romagna from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II with an impressive international cast (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda) to ''La luna'', set in Roma and in Emilia-Romagna, in which Bertolucci deals with the thorny issue of drugs and incest, and finally ''La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo'' (1981), with Ugo Tognazzi.

''Red Harvest''

During the making of Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci toyed with the idea of adapting Dashiell Hammett's book ''Red Harvest'' into a feature film. That material had formed the basis for Kurasawa's ''Yojimbo'', which in turn was the basis for Sergio Leone's ''Fistful of Dollars'' (''Per un pugno di dollari''), countless others have used its premise since. The reason for this was his wanting to branch out into other forms of cinema. Bertolucci wrote two screenplays, the first draft was written almost entirely as a political film, from which emerged a story inspired by socialist syndicalism of the late '20s in America. The second draft was more faithful to Hammett's original story and changed the setting to 1934. Actors considered for the role The Continental Op were Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson. In Rome, Bertolucci and Warren Beatty talked in great detail about the film, and in 1982 Bertolucci left Europe for Los Angeles where he was to shoot ''Red Harvest'', but five years went by and the film was never made.

Academy Awards with ''The Last Emperor''

In 1987, Bertolucci directed the epic ''The Last Emperor'', a biographical film telling the life story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last Emperor of China. The film was independently produced by noted British producer Jeremy Thomas, who became Bertolucci's preferred producer. Bertolucci has worked almost exclusively with Thomas from then on. The film was independently financed and three years in the making. Bertolucci won the Academy Award for Best Director. The movie starred John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, and Chen Kaige. Bertolucci co-wrote the film with Mark Peploe. ''The Last Emperor'' uses Puyi's life as a mirror that reflects China's passage from feudalism through revolution to its current state.

At the 60th Academy Awards, ''The Last Emperor'' won all nine Oscars for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music, Original Score and Best Sound

''The Last Emperor'' was the first feature film ever authorized by the government of the People's Republic of China to film in the Forbidden City. Bertolucci had proposed the film to the Chinese government as one of two possible projects. The other film was ''La Condition Humaine'' by André Malraux. The Chinese government preferred ''The Last Emperor'', and made no restrictions on the content. ''The Last Emperor'' became the first western film made in China and about the country to be produced with full Chinese government cooperation since 1949.

His latest films

After The Last Emperor, the director went back to Italy to film, and also went back to his old themes with varying results both from critics as well as from the public. He filmed Stealing Beauty in 1996, then The Dreamers in 2003, which describes the political passions and sexual revolutions of two siblings in Paris in 1968.

In 2007 he received the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for his life's work, and in 2011 he also received the Palma d'Oro at the Cannes Film Festival.

As a screenwriter, producer and actor

Bertolucci has also written many screenplays, both for his own films as well as for films directed by others, two of which he also produced.

His only experience as an actor was in the film Golem-The Spirit of Exile directed by Amos Gitai in 1992. After his divorce from Adriana Asti, Bertolucci married Clare Peploe, screenwriter and director with Mark Peploe of ''Professione Reporter'', and who had already collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni.

Upcoming projects

Bertolucci is said to be working on a historical romance centering on 16th Century classical musician (and murderer) Carlo Gesualdo.

Bertolucci's next feature film will be an adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti's young-adult's book ''Io e te (You and Me)'', the first film he will create in 3D. The screenplay for the movie was written by Bertolucci himself, Umberto Contarello and Niccolò Ammaniti, and expected to release late 2012.

Politics and Personal Beliefs

Bertolluci is an atheist.

Bertolucci's films are often very political. He is a professed Marxist and like Visconti, who similarly employed many foreign artists during the late 1960s, Bertolucci uses his films to express his political views; hence they are often autobiographical as well as highly controversial. His political films were preceded by others re-evaluating history. ''The Conformist'' (1970) criticised Fascist ideology, touched upon the relationship between nationhood and nationalism, as well as issues of popular taste and collective memory, all amid an international plot by Mussolini to assassinate a politically active leftist professor of philosophy in Paris. ''1900'' also analyses the struggle of Left and Right. The 1987 epic ''The Last Emperor'' (recently re-released at an extended 219 minutes) allowed Bertolucci to influence politics both through his characters and through the act of making the film itself. He was granted unprecedented permission to film in the Forbidden City of Beijing, and the film's central character Pu Yi undergoes a decade-long communist re-education under Mao which takes him from the peacock colors of the palace to the grey suit worn by his contemporaries to live out his life as a gardener.

On September 27, 2009, Bertolucci was one of the signers of the appeal to the Swiss government to release Roman Polanski, who was being held while waiting to be extradited to the United States.

Awards

Cinematographic awards

1971: National Society of Film Critics Award for best director

1973: Nastro d'argento for best director

1988: Academy Award for Best Director

1988: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1988: Golden Globe for best director

1988: Golden Globe for best screenwriter

1988: David di Donatello for best director

1988: David di Donatello for best screenplay

1988: Nastro d'argento for best director

1988: Directors Guild of America Award for best director

1997: Honorable Mention at the Locarno Film Festival

1997: Award special visual sensitivity in directing at the Camerimage

1997: Award for collaborating director – director of photography (Vittorio Storaro) at Camerimage

1998: Recognition for free expression by the National Board of Review

2007: Leone d'oro for his career at the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Venice

2011: Honorary Palma d'oro at Festival di Cannes

Filmography

''La commare secca'' (1962)

''Before the Revolution'' (''Prima della rivoluzione'', 1964)

''La via del petrolio'' (1965)

''Il Canale'' (1966)

''Partner'' (1968)

''Amore e rabbia'' (1969, episode "Agonia")

''La strategia del ragno'' (''The Spider's Stratagem'', 1970)

''Il conformista'' (''The Conformist'', 1970)

''La salute è malata'' (1971)

''Ultimo tango a Parigi'' (''Last Tango in Paris'', 1972)

''1900'' (''Novecento'', 1976)

''La Luna'' (''Luna'', 1979)

''La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo'' (1981)

''L'ultimo imperatore'' (''The Last Emperor'', 1987)

''The Sheltering Sky'' (1990)

''Little Buddha'' (1993)

''Stealing Beauty'' (''Io ballo da sola'', 1996)

''Besieged'' (1998)

''Ten Minutes Older: The Cello'' (2002)

''The Dreamers'' (2003)

''Io e te'' (''You and Me'', 2012)

See also

La Lega

References

External links

Jeremy Isaacs, "Face to Face: Bernardo Bertolucci", BBC interview, September 1989

Roger Ebert, review, ''The Last Emperor'', ''Chicago Sun-Times'', December 9, 1987

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Coordinates	12°2′36″N77°1′42″N
Name	Stella McCartney
Nationality	British
Birth date	September 13, 1971
Birth place	Lambeth, London, England
Education	Central St. Martins
Label name	Stella McCartney, Stella McCartney Kidds, adidas by Stella McCartney
Spouse	Alasdhair Willis (2003-)
Children	Miller, Bailey, Beckett, Reiley
Awards	}}

Stella Nina McCartney (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.

Early life

Stella McCartney was born in Lambeth, London on 13 September 1971, the second child of former Beatle bassist Sir Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman. She is named after her maternal great-grandmothers: both of Linda McCartney's grandmothers were named Stella. As a young girl, McCartney travelled the globe with her parents and their pop group Wings, along with her siblings: older half-sister Heather (who was legally adopted by Paul McCartney), older sister Mary, and younger brother James. According to her father, the name of Wings was inspired by Stella's difficult birth. As his daughter was being born by emergency caesarean section, Paul sat outside the operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel." Wings toured from shortly after her birth in 1971 until 1980.

Despite their fame, the McCartneys wanted their children to lead as normal a life as possible, so Stella and her siblings attended local state schools in East Sussex, one of them being Bexhill College. McCartney has said that while attending state school, she was a victim of bullying, as well as being a bully herself.

Career

Beginning

Stella McCartney became interested in designing clothes at age 13, when she made her first jacket. Three years later, she interned for Christian Lacroix, working on his first fashion design collection, honing her skills working for Edward Sexton, her father's Savile Row tailor for a number of years.

She studied her foundation at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the early 1990s. Her graduation collection in 1995 was modelled by friends and supermodels Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free – at the graduation runway show. The collection was shown to a song penned by her famous father, called "Stella May Day." The show made front-page news, and the entire collection was sold to Tokio, a London boutique. The designs were licensed to Browns, Joseph, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus. In 1998, she designed her sister Mary's wedding dress for her wedding to television producer Alistair Donald.

A lacto-ovo-vegetarian, McCartney does not use fur or leather in her designs and supports PETA. Some of McCartney's designs have text that elaborates on her "no animal" policy; for example, one of her jackets for Adidas says, "suitable for sporty vegetarians" on the sleeve. Stella does use wool, silk, and other animal-derived fabrics in her designs.

In March 1997 McCartney was appointed Creative Director of Paris fashion house Chloé, following in the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld was less than impressed with the house's choice, famously stating, ''"Chloé should have taken a big name. They did, but in music, not fashion. Let's hope she's as gifted as her father."'' Despite initial skepticism, McCartney's designs have enjoyed considerable commercial and critical success. She was accompanied to Chloé by her assistant and friend Phoebe Philo, who later replaced her as design director.

In 2001, McCartney resigned from Chloé in order to enter into an eponymous joint venture with Gucci. The line has four stores; one in New York City which opened September 2002, one in Mayfair, London, which opened April 2004, one in Los Angeles which she opened on her birthday in September 2005 and included an expansion into the perfume market, and most recently one in Hong Kong, which opened in 2008. In 2009, Stella launched a store in Paris in the heart of the Jardins du Palais Royal.

Stella McCartney received the VH1/''Vogue'' Designer of the Year award in 2000. Paul McCartney presented the award to his daughter. She thanked him in her acceptance speech and dedicated the award to her late mother. In 2000, McCartney designed Madonna's wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie.

In January 2007, McCartney launched a skincare line called CARE. The 100% organic line includes seven products, from a cleansing milk made with lemon balm and apricot to green tea and linden blossom floral water.

Collaborations

In 2004, she designed clothes for Madonna's Re-Invention Tour, Annie Lennox's summer tour, and Gwyneth Paltrow's and Jude Law's costumes for the film ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow''.

She also launched a joint-venture line with Adidas, establishing a long-term partnership with the corporation in September 2004. This line is a sports performance collection for women. The collection includes apparel for swim, gym, running, tennis and wintersports, as well as bags. McCartney's favorite pieces in the collection come with a special reflector keychain.. In early 2006, the keychain was in the shape of a pink heart and in later 2006, it was in the shape of a gray wolf's head. In January 2007, Stella McCartney announced that she would be adding a branch called Gym Yoga to her sports range for Adidas. Gym Yoga spring/summer 2007 collection is inspired by ballet and dance uniforms. The collection features double-layered tank tops with deep necklines, low-waisted skinny trousers and lightweight rubber shoes. Her Adidas contract was extended until 2010.

In 2005, she designed a range of clothing and accessories for H&M; to boost public awareness of her own brand and to create more affordable options for her fans. The line was released in November of that year and sold out almost immediately on launch day, due to the similarity (in many cases, almost direct copies) between her expensive main line and the H&M; line. On 12 March 2007, McCartney's limited edition 42-piece range was released to just 100 Target stores exclusively in Australia. The range was priced from $30 for a silk scarf to $200 for a taffeta trench coat. The collection was made in China. Scenes of near hysteria broke out as women stormed the stores to buy the collection. A problem was "clothing scalpers", who bought up large amounts of the range to resell on eBay at a high mark-up. Later, a large number of buyers returned their Stella clothes to Target complaining of strange, non-standard sizing that was bigger than the norm. A Target spokesperson defended the range saying that Stella's look was "generous" and "oversized". Later, returned Stella clothes languished on the racks having had their prices slashed by up to 60 percent.

In January 2008, McCartney's collaboration with lingerie label Bendon was scheduled to be released to department stores, speciality stores and Stella McCartney stores. McCartney was also scheduled, in early 2008, to release a line of handbags for LeSportsac. The collection has 30 to 40 styles and will range from $200–$500. The collection consists of travel bags, luggage, baby accessories and bags for mothers with infants and toddlers. The line is sold at high end retailers, the Los Angeles and New York Stella McCartney stores, select LeSportsac boutiques, and will be available for purchase online.

Since starting her own label, McCartney has also collaborated on projects with several artists including Gary Hume, R. Crumb, Jeff Koons, David Remfry and Ed Ruscha.

In January 2010, McCartney announced she would be collaborating with Disney to create an Alice in Wonderland-inspired jewelry collection.

In October 2010, Stella relaunched her Designers for Target range in Australia. This time around, less crowds ran into the stores and refunds for the products have been significant. The range is priced from 30 dollars AUD to 249 AUD.

Stella McCartney Kids children's wear was launched on 3 November 2010.

In July 2011 she participated at the catwalk of The Brandery fashion show in Barcelona.

She is designing the Adidas sportswear for the British Olympic and Paralympic teams for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

Criticism

McCartney has always claimed that she would have been a famous fashion designer even if her father had not been Paul McCartney. However, it has been suggested that Vendome, owners of the Chloé house, appointed her as much for the wave of publicity the appointment would generate as for her talent. In recent times, however, some commentators have said that she is capable. Indeed, ''Vogue'' magazine wrote that "her first collection for the house Chloé, shown in Paris in October 1997, quickly dispelled any doubts about her talent."

In November 2007, Stella designed a silver necklace featuring a single leg, an apparent attack on her father's estranged wife Heather Mills, an amputee. Fashion insiders thought it was "edgy", but also a bit "out of order".

Personal life

McCartney married British publisher Alasdhair Willis on 30 August 2003 in a private Catholic chapel at Mount Stuart House, the ancestral home of the Marquess of Bute on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. McCartney's wedding dress was an updated version of her mother's wedding dress from her March 1969 marriage ceremony to Paul McCartney. She designed the dress with Tom Ford, her boss at Gucci. The service was attended by Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler, Pierce Brosnan, and Madonna.

McCartney and Willis have four children: sons Miller Alasdhair James Willis (born 2005) and Beckett Robert Lee Willis in London (born 2008) and daughters Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis (born 2006)Her second daughter, Reiley Dilys Stella Willis (born 2010).

Stella and her husband are members of the Royal British Legion, Paddington Branch. In addition to her elder sisters and younger brother, Stella has a much younger half-sister, Beatrice Milly McCartney, born on 28 October 2003 to her father and his second wife, Heather Mills.

References

External links

Stella McCartney's official site

adidas by Stella McCartney

''Hello! Magazine'' Profile

Jewish Virtual Library biography

"Baby, You're A Star", Christa D'Souza; 1999

Bloomberg - Meatpacking District Draws Levi’s, Loses McCartney

"YSL and Balenciaga Will Be Joining Stella McCartney in Soho" Racked

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