Model replaced Claudia Schiffer as face of Chanel
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December 25, 2020 â 11.06am
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Model, Stella Tennant, wearing a grey tweed wool jacket and matching knee-length pleated skirt, by Anna Su.
Credit: Arthur Elgort/Conde Nast via Getty Images..
STELLA TENNANT 1970â2020
Stella Tennant, who has died aged 50 of undisclosed causes, was an aristocratic supermodel whose cool modernity and âattitudeâ made her one of the most sought-after faces in the fashion business over more than 25 years.
Bold, scowly, willowy and posh, Stella Tennant began her career in the early 1990s with fashion shoots for
Aristocratic British model Stella Tennant has died suddenly at the age of 50.
Stella Tennant who has died aged 50 of undisclosed causes, was an aristocratic supermodel whose cool modernity and attitude made her one of the most sought-after faces in the fashion business for more than 25 years. Bold, scowly, willowy and posh, Stella Tennant began her career in the early 1990s with fashion shoots for
The Face and
i-D magazine, her nose ring and pale skin rendered even more ghostly by a shock of black hair, making her seem the ultimate embodiment of the punk aesthetic.
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
The fashion world is fickle but Stella Tennant was a rare survivor, striding down catwalks and smouldering from magazine covers for almost 30 years.
By the flighty and superficial standards of her industry, she seemed a beacon of substance: avoiding the party circuit, eschewing celebrity culture and refusing to have anything much to do with such social media fripperies as Instagram.
Married for more than two decades, she and her French photographer-turned-osteopath husband, David Lasnet, raised their four children not in London, Paris or New York, but in an 18th-century manor house in rural Scotland where they would swim in rivers, grow vegetables and walk in the hills.
Stella Tennant, aristocratic high-fashion model who forged a radical new idea of beauty – obituary
She blazed a trail in the 1990s with The Face and i-D, moving on to Vogue and the biggest brands including Chanel and Burberry
23 December 2020 • 6:21pm
Stella Tennant (Paco Rabanne, Paris 1994): achieving her look required self-discipline and professionalism
Credit: Daniel SIMON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Stella Tennant, who has died aged 50 of undisclosed causes, was an aristocratic supermodel whose cool modernity and “attitude” made her one of the most sought-after faces in the fashion business over more than 25 years.
Bold, scowly, willowy and posh, Stella Tennant began her career in the early 1990s with fashion shoots for The Face and i-D magazine, her nose ring and pale skin, rendered even more ghostly by a shock of black hair, making her seem the ultimate embodiment of the punk aesthetic.