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 The fashion world is replete with stories of Cinderella, who suddenly became a princess. However, podiums and gloss conquer not only girls from the provinces, but also a real aristocrat. Model Stella Tennant is just one of them.
Vicissitudes of life
Stella Tennant was born December 17, 1970 in Scotland. Countess of Devonshire is her own grandmother (Devonshire - the famous county in southwest England). After receiving primary education, Stella Tennant arrived at Winchester School of Art. Despite the obvious successes in the field of sculpture, after graduation she still did not know what she wanted to do in the future. Stella could not afford an idle life (so the townsfolk seem to lives of aristocrats). The need to work to earn a living was evident, as the title and state are inherited through the male line.
The fate of Stella Tennant broke the case. She met a member of the British Vogue, who was looking for a model for a new project. It was necessary to find a young Englishwoman, ordinary representative of the London streets. Stella sent to the Editor your photos and a week later received an invitation to take part in a photo shoot. For beginners, a model that just makes the first steps in his career, it was a great success.
Road to the fashion Olympus was not strewn with rose petals. His first fashion show catwalk for Versace, which was supposed to attend the best models at the time Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, Stella Tennant rookie failed miserably - said the lack of experience and confidence. Aspiring model will long be remembered contemptuously thrown to her by Gianni Versace backstage at a fashion show, "Do you not warned that we no longer need your services? "
Man or woman?
One of his most lucrative advertising contracts concluded with Stella Tennant Chaumet jewelry house in the early 2000s. The best candidate for the cooperation of the company is unlikely to have been able to find. Representatives of Devonshire dynasty that owns our heroine, acquired Chaumet jewelry since 1825. Grandmother Stella has a great collection of jewelry in which this product brands are represented adequately. As a child, girl enthusiastically considered treasures from grandma's casket, touching rings, bracelets, necklaces and brooches. As an adult, Stella can indulge yourself and buy yourself your favorite ornaments. She wears them with deliberate casualness, while remaining elegant - a true modern aristocrat.
Due to the peculiarities of their appearance Stella Tennant manage easily transform: it good at both female and male characters. This feature noticed by representatives of the brand Chaumet and decided to use it in their advertising campaign. In advertising model captures images in a platinum tiara with diamonds. She impressively looking straight at the handsome young man. Look for this man: Yes it's very Stella!
From the aristocracy to democracy
Model-aristocrat has worked with well-known in the world of fashion brands: Chanel, Dior, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Hermès. On cooperation with Chanel is to say a few words separately. Stella Tennant was one of the muses of Karl Lagerfeld and face of the brand.
After working for an advertising contract, Stella has not stopped cooperation with Chanel: she still takes part in seasonal fashion show. Forty years of Stella Tennant feels pretty confident on the podium among the young models.
Stella Tennant works not only in the field of high fashion, she collaborates and democratic fashion label. Here's a recent example: the advertising campaign for Zara. Typically, Zara does not invite well-known models for shooting in advertising, but Stella Tennant was an exception.
Summer Collection 2011 from Zara
Summer Collection 2011 from Zara
It seems that the company co-operation with the model were satisfied, because she entrusted to represent not only the spring-summer collection, but autumn and winter. On the pictures Stella appears in the form of an ordinary modern woman. It demonstrates skirts, dresses, pants, blouses, coats. Butch, detached expression, no smile - a firm, easily recognizable style of the model Stella Tennant.
Collection / Winter 2011-2012 from Zara
Collection / Winter 2011-2012 from Zara
Wasp waist
Model-aristocrat is not afraid to go for risky experiments. Proof of this - a recent photo shoot for the magazine Vogue, during which Stella Tennant posed for well-known in the fashion photographer Steven Meisel. It is symbolic that twenty years ago, her modeling career began with just shooting for Vogue under the guidance of the master. So, the new joint work of photographer and model: Stella captured in photographs laced into a corset. Provocative? Yes. Handsomely? No. When browsing through the photos there is a feeling of a fastidious bewilderment. It is unlikely that someone deems their aesthetic and attractive, though ...
The prototype for the provocative shooting served Ethel Granger, winner of the world's thinnest waist. At constant wearing corset she insisted her husband, resulting in waist women become equal in the amount of 33 cm. Value for women in the XX century to fight against the corsets that in the XXI century voluntarily to return to them? In addition, Ethel Granger pierced nose and ears wearing several pairs of earrings at the same time. All these details are also found its reflection in a photo shoot for Stella Tennant Vogue.
Career is not a hindrance family
Stella Tennant and manages to successfully combine a successful career and family life. With marriage and birth of children she did not pull. In 1999, Stella Tennant married David Lasneta known French photographer. Happy parents are raising four children. Pregnancy and childbirth if not reflected in the figure of Stella: She's fine and is still taking part in photography, he goes to the podium. However, now it is not working so intensely as before. Stella can afford significant interruptions to devote more time to her husband and children.
Taste, as it is known, is inculcated from childhood. Once in the small world of fashion Stella Tennant led by the hand grandmother and mother who regularly visited Paris for all major fashion shows. Now, thanks to his work in modeling Stella Tennant well versed in fashion trends, personally acquainted with the best designers and, of course, has its own recognizable style.
Author: Irina Rukavishnikova
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