It was inspiring to meet them and hear about their lives.
#Stella tennant full
This was a room full of intelligent and capable young women. We certainly weren’t a group of young women putting ourselves on the marriage market as was once the case with events like these. Many of them are already studying at universities around the globe, or, like me, are applying for them now. Everyone spoke fluent English and one, if not three, other languages. Girls had come from all over Europe, South America, North America and Asia. There were crinolines, column dresses, sparkles, laces and feathers and everyone was looking fabulous. Having thought that I had totally nailed it with my Chanel Couture choice, it was clear that everyone had chosen something especially suited to herself. I was excited to meet them all, and see their dresses, of course. A darling of the 90s fashion scene, Stella was known for her androgynous looks and aristocratic.
I was first introduced to all of the other debutantes the day before Le Bal. Model Stella Tennant has died suddenly five days after her 50th birthday, her family has confirmed. She also studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art, England. Later, she attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England. Lionel Cironneau / AP Tennant was born into the Scottish aristocracy. Stella Tennant was born on Thursday, 17 December 1970 (age 50 years at the time of death) in London, England. I felt so privileged that I was going wear this wonderful creation. British model Stella Tennant during Chanels 1996-97 fall-winter haute couture fashion collection in Paris on July 9, 1996. A couple of years ago I visited the couture ateliers behind the scenes at Chanel and it was fascinating to see Karl Lagerfeld’s drawings and then the process of bringing them all into reality. Mum described watching this fitting as ‘watching a butterfly float around the room’. The bright colours were irresistibly pretty, and the hand embroidery work in the top was just exquisite. The silk fabric was woven with silver and gold threads and the silhouette flattered in all of the right places. The first I tried was the one that I fell for. Mum and I flew together from Scotland to the famous Chanel studio on the Rue Cambon where the couturiers had selected an array of the most beautiful gowns for me to choose from. Once I had agreed to attend, the next step was to choose my dress. Ultimately, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to be Cinderella for the night.
I was impressed by the support that it gave to Enfants d’Aise and the Selini Institute, two charities helping young women, but I was apprehensive about going to a party where I knew no one. Tennant was 50 years old when she was found deceased by authorities who responded to a call at a property in Duns, Scotland on. I knew about the traditional English debutantes’ coming-out parties, but this was the first that I had heard of Le Bal in Paris. British supermodel Stella Tennant died by suicide, her family said. As an insecure teenager, Stella recalled a visit to her eccentric aesthete uncle the Honorable Stephen Tennant who had been a noted Bright Young Thing and a celebrated beauty himself in the 1920s.“I heard the first whispers of Le Bal back in February when Chanel asked my mother, Stella Tennant, whether I might like to go. Stella’s father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean island of Mustique with a youthful inheritance and transformed it into the playground of rock and real royalty. Her mother, botanical artist Lady Emma Cavendish, was the daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah “Debo” Devonshire, the youngest of the fabled Mitford sisters who was famously droll and beautiful and whose entrepreneurial flair transformed Chatsworth, the Devonshires’s storied family estate, into one of Britain’s great tourist destinations. Stella was also the bluest of blue-bloods. This has been mentioned upthread but to see it all in one paragraph, wow.