- Stella Tennant was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish (Sir Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire ) and Deborah Cavendish (Dame Deborah (nee Mitford) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire) on one side and of Lord Glenconner on the other side. Relatives included Colin Tennant (uncle) and Nancy Mitford and Jessica Mitford (great aunts). Tennant eschewed using her hereditary title of "Lady".
- Her line of baby knitwear was known as "Tennant and Son".
- Was ranked #27 in Channel 5's "World's Greatest Supermodels".
- 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.
- In June 2012, Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.
- She died suddenly on 22 December 2020 shortly after her 50th birthday.
- Raised on a 1,500-acre (6 km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders, Tennant went to the local primary then attended St Leonards School in St Andrews followed by Marlborough College[11] before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art.
- For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes.
- Stella was a great-niece of the flamboyant socialite Stephen Tennant, of war poet Edward Tennant, and of William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington who married Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy (member of the Kennedy family and younger sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy).
- 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.
- She was also directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society, and a fourth cousin-once-removed to Diana, Princess of Wales.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool 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 Oxfam's "Second Hand September".
- From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace.
- Tennant was a British model and fashion designer, who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years.
- Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Hermès and Burberry.
- Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.
- She worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker.
- Had four children: son Marcel Lasnet (born 1998) and daughters Cecily Lasnet (born 2001), Jasmine Lasnet (born 2003) and Iris Lasnet (born 2005) with husband David Lasnet.
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