Jasmine Leonora Guinness (born 28 September 1976) is an Irish designer and a fashion model active since 1994. She is a member of Anglo-Irish brewing

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Personal life

She is the daughter of Patrick Guinness and Liz Casey. She was educated at St. Columba's College,

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, in

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. She also spent a year at

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. She and Gawain O'Dare Rainey were engaged on 31 January 2005 and married on 1 July 2006 in

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, Ireland.ShowBiz Ireland – Jasmine Guinness Weds Gawain Rainey in Ireland: Photos
/ref> 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,

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, Jade Parfitt,

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and

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. 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

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in 2006

Modelling career

A portrait of her is held at the

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in London. She has modelled for various perfume and make-up campaigns, including

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and Shu Uemura. She was the face of the "Goffs Million" horse races at the

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in September 2007, an event that paid the highest winnings of any race meeting in Europe. In 2009 she was the face of the "

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" event celebrating her ancestor

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. In March and December 2011 she was again the subject of articles in ''

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''. 2014 marked a revival of Guinness' modelling career as she led Jaeger's AW14 campaign alongside her mother Liz and fellow models

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and

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. Her range largely included knitwear; including cardigans, skirts and sweater dresses.

Family

Guinness is the great-granddaughter of

Diana Mitford Diana, Lady Mosley (''née'' Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003), known as Diana Guinness between 1929 and 1936, was a British fascist, aristocrat, writer, and editor. She was one of the Mitford sisters and the wife of Oswald Mosley, le ...

(later Lady Mosley), who was one of the

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, and her first husband Bryan Guinness, later the 2nd Lord Moyne. Her paternal grandfather,

Desmond Guinness Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Brya ...

, 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

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. Guinness's maternal family was researched in the

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programme ''Where Was Your Family During the Famine?''RTE website page
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Ancestors

Notes

External links

Vogue story 2003Daily Telegraph 2006
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Miss Jasmine Guinness
at Debrett's ''People of Today''
www.style.it 2007Roberto Cavalli 2007
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