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Stella McCartney preaches Peace and Dove in mission to save birds

Designer launches campaign to banish real feathers from fashion industry as she shows latest collection in Paris

In front of an audience that included the former Chanel creative director Virginie Viard, wearing a Stella McCartney faux-fur bomber jacket, the show began with Helen Mirren narrating a new manifesto: “A world where there are only planes in the sky, and no song in the trees, will never make the heart soar.” There were pastel minidresses in this collection so realistically feathery that the models looked like newly hatched chicks, albeit very leggy and in stilettos. But these were made from peekaboo regenerated nylon, knitted into a powder-puff texture to resemble feathers, but produced from recycled plastic bottle tops.

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