Jasmine Guinness

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Template:Short description Template:Use Irish English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Jasmine Leonora Guinness (born 28 September 1976) is an Irish designer and a fashion model[1] 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

She and Gawain O'Dare Rainey were engaged on 31 January 2005 and married on 1 July 2006 in Leixlip, Ireland.[2] 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,[3] Mario Testino, Paddy Moloney, Anjelica Huston, Jacquetta Wheeler, Jade Parfitt, Erin O'Connor, Garech Browne and Philip Treacy.[4]

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.[2]

She opened the toy shop Honeyjam on London's Portobello Road in 2006[5]

Modelling career

A portrait of her is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.[6] 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.[7]

In 2009 she was the face of the "Arthur's Day" event celebrating her ancestor Arthur Guinness.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In March and December 2011 she was again the subject of articles in Hello.[8]

2014 marked a revival of Guinness' modelling career as she led Jaeger's AW14 campaign[9] 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?[10]

Ancestors

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  1. The Coral Eclipse Ladies Day put Sandown Park in the style lead this weekend (Vogue.com UK) Template:Webarchive
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