Charlie Rose Talks to Stella McCartney

You’ve had your own label since 2001. How is it evolving? What makes it different?
The thing that maybe places us aside from the rest of the fashion houses in luxury is, we have a different approach. We’re asking questions, challenging the system a little bit. It means we’re unconventional in our manufacturing. [We ask] a lot of questions on sourcing, including the fact that there are over 50 million animals a year killed in the name of fashion.

How did you come to that sensitivity?
I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age—not just for health, not for the environment, just because I didn’t believe in killing animals to eat them. And then I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. I didn’t think that I could not eat it and just go, “Hey, it’s OK, because it’s a handbag and a pair of shoes.”