Stella Tennant

Stella Tennant was a British model who rose to fame in the early 1990s. She worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. In 2016, she co-designed a collection with Lady Isabel Cawdor for Chanel owned London-based brand, Holland & Holland.

About Stella Tennant in brief

Summary Stella TennantStella Tennant was a British model who rose to fame in the early 1990s. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was one of the British supermodels, with models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, 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 looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. She died suddenly on 22 December 2020 shortly after her 50th birthday. She was the great niece of the flamboyant socialite Stephen Tennant, and was directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society.