The youngest of the four siblings, Iris shared her mother’s passion for modelling after candid shots appeared of a photoshoot she did with Stella for Oxfam UK, a charity which Stella was very passionate about. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. MORE: Royalty and celebrities come together for emotional memorial to Karl Lagerfeld She was said to have even toyed with the idea of getting into taxidermy. It was said that she was grateful about her income from modelling, however her two passions took centre stage: gardening and sculpture. In 2002, Stella strikingly returned to the Chanel fold, shooting the fashion house's Spring-Summer 2002 campaign for Karl, down at the designer's Biarritz house. I have long holidays and it's not nine to five." Stella Tennant’s Return to Fashion "It's part-time, I don't have to work if I don't want to. "It seemed incredibly incompatible before I had children, but once I started working, I realised it's a brilliant job to do," she stated in 2002, a year before giving birth to her third child, Jasmine. She wore a short, Helmut Lang-designed dress after modelling for the Austrian brand in 1995 for Vogue and, following the service, drove her new husband to the wedding reception.Īfter welcoming daughter Cecily, born in 2000, Stella dipped a toe back into the fashion world again with a return to modelling and design of a knitwear line for Burberry. Nine months after Marcel's birth, she married her photographer boyfriend David Lasnet, who she had met on a Mario Testino shoot, at a family ceremony in her home village of Oxnam. In fact, at the beginning of 1998, the British beauty announced she was retiring from the world that had made her name, as she was pregnant with her first child. In the course of her career, Stella never let her head be turned by the fashion industry. MORE: Remembering Karl Lagerfeld Stella Tennant’s Family "Stella is more in tune with modern fashion trends than Claudia," Lagerfeld told an interviewer. Her predecessor, Claudia Schiffer, was placed aside in favour of the budding model. Meisel was the visionary who saw Stella’s potential, with Karl Lagerfeld later making her the new face of Chanel. "Sometimes I see myself and I have no idea why they booked me." She still found it hard to believe her luck, however. She shot a campaign for Verscace the week after her shoot for Italian Vogue. In her first weeks as a budding model, Stella performed catwalk shows in Paris, Milan and London, as well as undertaking editorial work for US Vogue and Elle. It took a superhuman attempt on the booker's part to persuade her to give it a go. At first, Stella was not keen on pursuing a career in fashion and told her agency booker that she would think about it before calling her.
So impressed, in fact, that the next day he took her off to Paris for an Italian Vogue photo shoot. Steven Meisel was impressed with this unsmiling, patrician vision of Britain. Their requests for Stella to remove the piercing fell on deaf ears, and the session took place with the metalwork stubbornly in place. When Stella, a friend of one of the Vogue-ettes turned up for the shoot with a ring embedded, bull-style, in her septum, the fashion set blanched.
Steven, the image-maker for American Vogue was in London to do a shoot for the magazine's British counterpart, and had informed the fashion department he wanted non-models. And it appears the budding creative would have made a name for herself in the art world sooner or later if it hadn't been for a photographer called Steven Meisel. Stella attended the prestigious St Leonards School for Girls in Scotland, close to the 1,500-acre sheep farm in the Borders where she grew up, before going to Marlborough College in Wiltshire to study for her A Levels.Īn art foundation course at Kingston Polytechnic preceded a degree course at Winchester School of Art, where Stella embarked upon her sculpting career, the part of her life she described as "my first love".
Stella Tennant was born in 1970, the youngest of the three children of the Honourable Tobias Tennant and his wife Lady Emma, daughter of the current Duke of Devonshire.
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