Jasmine Guinness
{{short description|Irish model, designer and Guinness heiress}}
{{Use Irish English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jasmine Guinness
| image = Fendi store opening - Jasmine Guinness (14114411293) (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Jasmine Guinness in a Fendi store opening in 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|09|28|df=yes}}
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| education = Winchester School of Art
| father = Patrick Guinness
| relatives = Guinness family
Desmond Guinness (grandfather)
Mariga Guinness (grandmother)
| spouse = {{marriage|Gawain Raney|2006}}
| children = 3
| occupation = Fashion designer, model
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Jasmine Leonora Guinness (born 28 September 1976) is an Irish designer and a fashion model[http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=36750 The Coral Eclipse Ladies Day put Sandown Park in the style lead this weekend (Vogue.com UK)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312004241/http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=36750 |date=12 March 2007 }} active since 1994. She is a member of Anglo-Irish brewing Guinness family.
Personal life
She is the daughter of Patrick Guinness and Liz Casey. She was educated at St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, in Dublin. She also spent a year at Winchester School of Art.{{cn|date=April 2020}}
She and Gawain O'Dare Rainey were engaged on 31 January 2005 and married on 1 July 2006 in Leixlip, Ireland.[http://www.showbizireland.com/news/july06/17-guinness01.shtml ShowBiz Ireland – Jasmine Guinness Weds Gawain Rainey in Ireland: Photos] The wedding was extensively covered in Hello! magazine (in the issue dated 18 July 2006) and attended by 500 guests, including the designer of her draped silk dress, Jasper Conran,[http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2006-07/060712-the-beautiful-bride.aspx 'The Beautiful Bride' Vogue.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515103444/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2006-07/060712-the-beautiful-bride.aspx |date=15 May 2009 }} Mario Testino, Paddy Moloney, Anjelica Huston, Jacquetta Wheeler, Jade Parfitt, Erin O'Connor, Garech Browne and Philip Treacy.{{cite news |url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3355011/Checking-it-out.html |title=Checking it out |first=Hilary |last=Alexander |date=17 July 2006 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=6 May 2012 |location=London}}
Her husband is the son of Michael Rainey and the Hon. Jane Ormsby-Gore, a daughter of David, 5th Lord Harlech. They have two sons and a daughter together.
She opened the toy shop Honeyjam on London's Portobello Road in 2006{{Cite web |date=2010-02-13 |title=My Secret Life: Jasmine Guinness, model & designer, 33 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-secret-life-jasmine-guinness-model-amp-designer-33-1895396.html |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
Modelling career
A portrait of her is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.{{Cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp67631 |title=Jasmine Guinness, Fashion model |access-date=14 September 2006 |archive-date=18 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618081530/http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp67631 |url-status=dead }} She has modelled for various perfume and make-up campaigns, including Armani and Shu Uemura. She was the face of the "Goffs Million" horse races at the Curragh in September 2007, an event that paid the highest winnings of any race meeting in Europe.{{cite news| url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2007/0531/1180483498324.html | newspaper=The Irish Times | title=Jasmine Guinness joins 'Bernard the unstoppable' at races | date=5 May 2007}}
In 2009 she was the face of the "Arthur's Day" event celebrating her ancestor Arthur Guinness.{{cn|date=May 2020}} In March and December 2011 she was again the subject of articles in Hello.[http://premiomag.com/products/entertainment-people/HELLO-magazine-GB.html "Hello" 5 December 2011]
2014 marked a revival of Guinness' modelling career as she led Jaeger's AW14 campaign{{Cite web|url = http://www.jaeger.co.uk/womens/jaeger-journal/aw15_interview_ww_wk29.html|title = Interview: Jasmine Guinness|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160302042332/http://www.jaeger.co.uk/womens/jaeger-journal/aw15_interview_ww_wk29.html|archive-date = 2 March 2016|url-status = dead}} alongside her mother Liz and fellow models Kirsty Hume and Jodie Kidd. Her range largely included knitwear; including cardigans, skirts and sweater dresses.
Family
Guinness is the great-granddaughter of Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley), who was one of the Mitford sisters, and her first husband Bryan Guinness, later the 2nd Lord Moyne. Her paternal grandfather, Desmond Guinness, was a conservationist specialising in Georgian and classical architecture, while her paternal grandmother, Mariga Guinness, was born Marie-Gabrielle, Princess of Urach. Desmond and Mariga Guinness were co-founders of the Irish Georgian Society. Guinness's maternal family was researched in the RTÉ programme Where Was Your Family During the Famine?[http://www.rte.ie/tv/wherewasyourfamily/ RTE website page]
Ancestors
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|1= Jasmine Leonora Guinnness
|2= Patrick Guinness
|3= Felicity Clare "Liz" Casey
|4= Desmond Guinness
|5= Princess Marie-Gabrielle "Mariga" von Urach
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|8= Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
|9= Diana Mitford
|10= Prince Albrecht von Urach, Count of Württemberg
|11= Rosemary Blackadder
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|16= Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
|17= Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine
|18= David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale
|19= Sydney Bowles
|20= Wilhelm Karl, 2nd Duke of Urach
(King Mindaugas II of Lithuania)
|21= Duchess Amalie in Bavaria
|22= John Blackadder
|23= Anna Wilson
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Notes
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050313032501/http://vogue.co.uk/Vogue_Daily/Story/story.asp?stid=13516 Vogue story 2003]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612143225/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/celiawalden/3643491/Christmas_party_fever/ Daily Telegraph 2006]
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- {{IMDb name | id=3142394 | name=Jasmine Guinness}}
- [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/22080/Jasmine+GUINNESS.aspx Miss Jasmine Guinness] at Debrett's People of Today
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090503223443/http://www.style.it/cont/photogallery/0705/0920/jasmine-guinness.asp www.style.it 2007]
- [http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/vogue_italia_20_wenn5016853 Roberto Cavalli 2007]
- [http://www.take2models.com/ViewByTalent.aspx?TtId=74&TtyId=2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111081819/http://www.take2models.com/ViewByTalent.aspx?TtId=74&TtyId=2 |date=11 January 2009 }}
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Category:People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin
Category:Alumni of the University of Southampton