Stephanie Seymour

Stephanie M. Seymour is an American model who has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers. She has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, and Gilles Bensimon. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers.
Career

Born in San Diego, California, the middle child of a California real estate-developer father and hairstylist mother, Seymour started her modeling career working for local newspapers and department stores in her hometown at the age of 14. A year later she won the Elite Model Management Look of the Year modeling contest.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Seymour appeared in numerous issues of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and appeared on the cover of Vogue. During the same period, Seymour was a primary lingerie and hosiery model for the relatively new Victoria's Secret company in its mail-order catalogs and retail stores. In 1991 and again in 1994, Seymour posed for Playboy.

In 1998, she wrote Stephanie Seymour's Beauty Secrets for Dummies.[3][4] In 2000, Seymour was ranked #91 on the FHM 1000 Sexiest Women of 2000.[5] In 2006, she appeared in a campaign for Gap with her children.

In July 2007, it was reported that Salvatore Ferragamo had finished the creative campaign for his fall/winter 2007/2008 collection featuring Seymour and Claudia Schiffer. The collection was shot on location in Italy with Mario Testino. In the promotional photos, the supermodels play film stars protected by bodyguards and pursued by the paparazzi.

Acting

In 2000, Seymour played Helen Frankenthaler in the movie Pollock. In 2002 she played the role of Sara Lindstrom in the "Crazy" episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

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