'Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment,' said Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney has the world at her feet.
In a couple of months time, the Olympics kit she designed for Team Great Britain will be worn by 900 athletes taking part in myriad sports.
With worldwide television coverage beamed to some 750 million people, this will be the biggest fashion show the world has ever seen.
'The magnitude of that is way out of my comfort zone,' she told Interview magazine.
'What's most mind-blowing about it is I'm serving the nation a bit, serving the team, trying to bring them together.'
Stella feted the tenth anniversary of her eponymous brand last year.
She is due to celebrate her tenth wedding anniversary with husband Alashdair Willis in 2013 and has four model children.
However, alongside babies and marriage, another important milestone in her life was the death of her mother Linda McCartney who lost her battle with breast cancer in 1998.
'Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment,' she observed.
'I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.'
She continued, 'I feel like I'm in the thick of it. I mean, the eye of the storm.'
Linda McCartney's influence courses deep through the veins of her brand to its very ethos: 'I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals.
'And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.'
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