Cleo Wade is a writer, poet, and New York Times best-selling author of three books ... but that didn’t stop Clicquot. She went on to helm what became Veuve Clicquot for nearly six decades ...

I asked her if she recalled the moment she truly found Widow Clicquot in her. She said, ‘When I read the book, I knew that I had her in me. There was something about her, I mean I was afraid ...

But this was not the case for Stella McCartney’s recent collaboration with Veuve Clicquot. Instead, it was about what they could give her: specifically, the stalks, skins, pulp, and discarded fruits ...