Jane
Seymour
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FASHION
WEEK
Jane
Seymour’s Passion
Gives Way to Fashion
Story
by Roger Webster
Photos by Patrick McMullan
 OU
might call Jane Seymour a renaissance woman, and her many
extraordinary accomplishments make her a woman of the 21st Century.
She grew up outside London with dreams of becoming a ballet dancer
or a couturier. After an accident caused her to give up a promising
ballet career, she refocused her ambition on acting.
She
made her film debut at eighteen in Richard Attenborough’s
Oh, What A Lovely War, one of the original Bond
girls, became known as the Queen of Miniseries and struck ratings
gold with Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, bringing her multiple
Emmy and Golden Globe awards.
She
married the actor/director James Keach, raised a family of
six children, and found international recognition as a painter of
beautiful floral watercolors.
Throughout,
Jane maintained a passion for clothes. Just last month debuted her
first self-designed line of women’s fashions before a packed
audience at a Champagne Veuve Clicquot Fête and High Tea at
Doubles, the elegant private club in New York’s Sherry Netherlands
Hotel.
Jane
Seymour and James Keach
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Fashionistas
were utterly thrilled, including her husband and their gorgeous
daughter Jenny Keach, who is studying law and doing a little
modeling on the side, Grace Hightower, Somers Farkas, R. Couri
Hay with Susan L. Schwartz, who is busy preparing her
off-Broadway production of Debbie Does Dallas, Tom Gates,
Heidi Albertsen, Robert Janjigian, Amy Rosi and Wendy
Carduner.
The
moderately priced outfits run the gamut from ultra feminine silk
chiffon floral dresses inspired by her paintings to beaded denim
separates and classically tailored pantsuits.
They
can be see in your own home, as they are available exclusively
through Blair Corporation’s Spring 2002 Crossing Pointe catalogue
and web site www.CrossingPointe.com.
While
in town for the show and to visit Seventh Avenue fabric and trimming
houses with sketchbook in hand, Jane made a big splash.
She
appeared with her collection, on size 14 models, on ABC’s The
View. Within ten minutes after Star Jones spelled out her
website on the air, the site had more than 25,000 hits and
temporarily crashed.
Jane
Seymour, James Keach and
daughter Jennie Keach
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She
and her husband attended the Wildlife Conservation Society Penguins
and Pearls kickoff at Tiffany’s where she promised WCS president
Dr. Steven E. Sanderson that she would do a watercolor of her
interpretation of the theme. The image will be printed on silk
scarves for guests at the May 30 gala in the Central Park Zoo, with
a percentage of proceeds going to benefit the society.
She
went to the big Page Six party at the Mercer Kitchen and did
a segment for the WB network, delivering secrets for a romantic
evening starting, of course, with Veuve Clicquot.
She
will be back in New York soon as she is the honorary chair for the
YWCA-NYC spring cocktail party, a natural for Jane as the theme is
art and she is nothing if not an artist.
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