Stella McCartney Announces New Menswear Line

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After hearing whispers that some big changes were in the works over at

Stella McCartney

, the designer has finally confirmed she’ll be launching an official menswear line later this year. The announcement was made today at Pitti Uomo in Florence, one of the biggest menswear trade shows in the industry. The first menswear collection will be debuted at a special presentation in London on November 10 in conjunction with her women’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection. The show will take a “see now, buy now” approach with buyers, and deliver product to stores by December, just in time for the holiday rush.

Until now the only men who were able to wear McCartney’s designs were her father, former Beatles member Paul McCartney, and her husband, Alasdhair Willis, with a few one-off pieces for Guy Ritchie and David Bowe. “The desire to marry the Stella woman to a man has been inside me since the very beginning,” McCartney told the

New York Times