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Stella Tennant was a well-known model who first caught the attention of photographers in 1993. She quickly found success as a fashion model and starred on the cover of magazines all over the world – including France and Italy. The model died on December 22, just five days after her 50th birthday.
Model Stella Tennant married Paris-born photographer David Lasnet in 1999 at a church in Oxnan, Scotland
He credited her with pulling him out of depression when he
spoke about their marriage in a 2011 interview
Couple had four children together Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris, aged 15 to 22, before their split in August
The mother-of-four Stella was found dead at her home on the Scottish borders this week shortly after her 50th
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“Stella came off the train from Scotland smelling of goats,” Isabella Blow chortled down the phone to me. It was the summer of 1993 and Stella Tennant had been scouted for the December British
Vogue “London Babes” story to be shot by Steven Meisel. The portfolio was being orchestrated by Isabella Blow and stylist Joe McKenna and they were searching for striking bluebloods with Meisel-level allure. The wide-eyed, gangly young writer Plum Sykes had also been enlisted on the hunt and remembers the “tiny little passport photo” that was submitted to Isabella, of Stella with her septum ring. “She was remarkable looking,” Sykes recalls, “she came in and she was just so incredibly cool that I was intimidated. She was so level headed and not vain, she wasn’t grand, she was just this really cool beautiful country turnip.” Sykes continues, “She looked like a model but was very grounded. She just looked