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Stella Tennant (17 December 1970 – 22 December 2020) was a British model and fashion designer, who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, , , Alexander McQueen, and . She worked for names like Valentino, and by and with photographers , Bruce Weber, , and . Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for , , Hermès and .

Tennant won VH1/Vogue Model of the Year Award in 2001, Model of the Year at the 2011 British Fashion Awards and the Contribution to British Fashion award at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year 2016 awards; she was also inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame as Model of the Year in 2012. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was one of the British supermodels, with models and , walking the runway in the closing ceremony.

In 2016, she co-designed a collection with Lady Isabel Cawdor for the Chanel owned London-based brand, Holland & Holland. She also ran Tennant & Son, a line of hand-knitted cashmeres and a luxury homewares company with her sister. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time to looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes.

She died on 22 December 2020 shortly after her 50th birthday. Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period.


Early life and ancestry
Stella Tennant was born on 17 December 1970 in London, England,England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. the youngest of three children born to Hon. Tobias Tennant (b. 1941), son of Christopher Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and his wife, Emma (b. 1943).

She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the . Stella was a great-niece of the flamboyant socialite , of war poet Edward Tennant, and of William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington who married Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy (a member of the and younger sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy). She was also directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of English society, and a fourth cousin-once-removed to Diana, Princess of Wales.


Education
Raised on a 1,500-acre (6 km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at , in the , Tennant went to the local primary school and then attended St Leonards School in followed by Marlborough College before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art.


Career
In 1993, Tennant sent photographs of herself to a magazine, and a friend introduced her to fashion writer (Victoria Rowland). She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. then used her on the cover of Italian Vogue. Soon after, announced Tennant as the new face of , with an exclusive contract. He is reported to have thought that she was reminiscent of . She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including , David Sims and . Priya Elan, writing in her obituary, credits her, together with and Erin O'Connor, with having "introduced an era of androgyny on the catwalk".

Tennant appeared on fashion catwalks for , Bill Blass, Dior and Chanel. She was a for the designers Karl Lagerfeld, , Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquière, and . She also appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including , Hermès, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for . In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by . During the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Tennant, along with and Kate Moss, was one of the British models wearing fashions created by British designers specifically for the event.

In 2016, Tennant and Lady Isabella Cawdor premiered a new ready to wear collection they designed for the gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant.


Personal life
Tennant married French photographer and David Lasnet in the village of , Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. They had four children together. The family lived near Duns, in the small village of in Berwickshire, also in the Scottish Borders. In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated.


Death
Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50, in Duns. According to her family, she died by suicide related to mental illness.


Activism
In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation to promote using less energy at home. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment, including 's "Second Hand September".

In August 2014, Tennant was one of 200 celebrities who signed a letter to newspaper expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.


Honours and awards
In June 2012, Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.


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