Jeanne Beker is one of Canada’s great success stories and most prolific exports, the one who brought the exclusive world of high fashion to television. She’s now best known for hosting FashionTelevision, the programme and channel, which is shown around the world. To Jeanne, the essence of fashion is costume. Her first love is theatre and Jeanne loves the transformative power of clothes for a stage character. Fashion, like a costume, can create a new image or character, and is fundamentally playful. So when Star Portraits does a sitting with Jeanne, she wants to be surrounded by theatrical costumes, to remind us that that’s how she views fashion. We find a storage company that stores the Baroque theatrically costumes of the Opera Atelier theatre company in Toronto.

Jeanne Beker is one of the most iconic and influential women in the fashion industry. Beker is host of Canada’s leading fashion series FashionTelevision, as well as, FashionTelevisionChannel. Jeanne is also a regular contributor for The Globe and Mail, a published author, and judge on the popular reality series Canada's Next Top Model. Jeanne will be launching an exclusive clothing line titled “Edit by Jeanne Beker” with The Bay, before celebrating FT’s 25th anniversary this fall.

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