Jasmine Guinness

Jasmine Leonora Guinness (born 28 September 1976) is an Irish designer and a fashion model^[1] active since 1994. She is also an heiress^[2] to the Guinness brewing fortune.

Personal life

She is the daughter of

St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, in Dublin. She also spent a year at Winchester School of Art.^{[citation needed}

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She and Gawain O'Dare Rainey were engaged on 31 January 2005 and married on 1 July 2006 in Leixlip, Ireland.^[3] 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,^[4] Mario Testino, Paddy Moloney, Anjelica Huston, Jacquetta Wheeler, Jade Parfitt, Erin O'Connor, Garech Browne and Philip Treacy.^[5]

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.^[3]

She opened the toy shop Honeyjam on London's Portobello Road in 2006^[6]

Modelling career

A portrait of her is held at the

Curragh in September 2007, an event that paid the highest winnings of any race meeting in Europe.^[8]

In 2009 she was the face of the "

Hello.^[9]

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

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?^[11]