STELLA TENNANT History 1994 | 2004 - Fashion Channel

STELLA TENNANT History 1994 | 2004 - Fashion Channel Tennant started modeling “accidentally,” she told British Vogue back in 2018. While many models of her era were discovered as teenagers by model scouts, Tennant was still submitting photos to casting agents in her early 20s. She’d graduated from art school, and planned to pursue sculpture if her modeling didn’t take off. “My first ever modeling gig was for the December 1993 issue of British Vogue, and it happened pretty much by accident. A friend of mine happened to know Plum Sykes, then an assistant at the magazine, and Plum was working with Isabella Blow on a portfolio of English roses with an edge. Izzy was already a legendary stylist at that point, and she was looking for non-models that she thought epitomized British cool. Being tall and skinny, I had tried to do some modeling a few years earlier after I finished my degree at the Winchester School of Art, but after a couple of weeks of running around London to go-sees, nobody seemed interested. Frankly, I had sort of given it up.” Tennant gave Blow a couple of passport photos for consideration for the upcoming fashion spread, which led to her being cast in the photo shoot with famed fashion photographer Steven Meisel. The “Anglo-Saxon Attitude” shoot for British Vogue featured Tennant, her eyes ringed by heavy black eyeliner, wearing Alexander McQueen designs, Wolford fishnets and Vivienne Westwood platforms. Videos, fashion, stylists, models, the...