PARIS (AP) — Inside the Centre Pompidou, Helen Mirren opened Stella McCartney ’s Paris Fashion Week show with a spoken rendition of The Beatles ’ “Come Together.” Less performance than manifesto, it set the tone for a Tuesday night collection framed around humanity, animals and the planet. This season she claimed her most conscious offering yet: 98% sustainable, 100% cruelty-free. “It’s about coming together — all humanity, all Mother Earth’s creatures — now more than ever,” the designer said backstage. Instead came world-first innovations: FEVVERS, a plant-based alternative to feathers, and PURE.TECH, a programmable fabric that absorbs pollutants from the air. The collection captured McCartney’s recurring aesthetic — eco-lux innovation, ’80s-inflected power dressing, activist theater softened by British wit.