1. Stella Tennant was a British model and fashion designer, who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years.
19 Facts About Stella Tennant
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Stella Tennant worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker.
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Stella Tennant died on 22 December 2020 shortly after her 50th birthday.
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Stella Tennant's family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period.
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Stella Tennant was born on 17 December 1970 in London, England, the youngest of three children born to Hon.
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Stella Tennant was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters.
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Stella Tennant was directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society, and a fourth cousin-once-removed to Diana, Princess of Wales.
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In 1993, Stella Tennant sent photographs of herself to a high fashion magazine, and a friend introduced her to fashion writer Plum Sykes.
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Stella Tennant had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time.
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Stella Tennant is reported to have thought that she was reminiscent of Coco Chanel.
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Stella Tennant modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick.
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Stella Tennant appeared on fashion catwalks for Shiatzy Chen, Bill Blass, Dior and Chanel.
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Stella Tennant was a muse for the designers Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace, Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquiere, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham.
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Stella Tennant appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including Calvin Klein, Hermes, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for Burberry.
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Stella Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999.
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Stella Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50, in Duns.
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In 2009, Stella Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home.
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Stella Tennant made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat.
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In June 2012, Stella Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.