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British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of fifty.
The Scot made her name during the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace and on the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
Her family said that her death was “sudden”, and police said there have been “no suspicious circumstances”. She died just after five days after from her 50th birthday.
The family is very sad right now and said: “It is with great sadness we announce the overtime of Stella Tennant on 22nd December 2020.Her family invite their privacy to be respected. Arrangements for a memorial service are going to be announced at a later date.”
About Stella Tennant
Tennant become popular after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of twenty-two in 1993, and went on to figure with designers and fashion houses including Alexander McQueen, Klein , Jean Paul Gaultier and Burberry.
Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage. She is the granddaughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, and Deborah Mitford.
She also starred within the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games alongside fellow British models like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.
Before choosing modeling as her career, she studied at Winchester School of Art and embarked upon a career in sculpting, which she described as “my first love”.
Even after being spotted by Vogue photographer Steven Meisel, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to make a career in modelling.
But she did join the style world, and said the 90s were “a great time to start out modelling”.
In the late 90s, Lagerfeld unveiled her because the new face of Chanel, noting her resemblance to Coco Chanel.
Tennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 as she was pregnant together with her first child, but later returned.
She married French-born photographer David Lasnet within the small parish church of Oxnam within the Scottish Borders in 1999. that they had four children.
She also worked on campaigns to market using less energy and to scale back the environmental impact of fast fashion.
She said at the time that she was reusing clothes she has had since the 90s and only buying about five new items a year.
“At my age, I feel it’s probably quite normal you are not that curious about consuming, [and not] loving shopping the maximum amount as when you’re much younger. We all got to think a touch bit harder.”
In 2012, she was inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame.
