Stephanie Seymour was a top fashion model who flourished during the 1980s and 1990s.
The doe-eyed wonder was one of the most famous supermodels along with Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, and Claudia Schiffer.
The 56-year-old brunette beauty was in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the cover of Vogue, as well as being a former Victoria’s Secret Angel.
She worked on the biggest campaigns for Versace and Fendi, and even dated Guns N roses singer Axl Rose.
In 2014, Seymour was named a global spokesmodel for Estée Lauder. And she also starred on an episode of Law & Order.
The New Yorker still looks fabulous today as she recently posted images to Instagram.
Stephanie Seymour was a model who flourished during the 1980s and 1990s. And she still looks great today. Seen on her Playboy cover in 1991
On the runway walking the Versace show in Paris in 1992
Born in San Diego, California, Seymour started modeling as a teen for local papers.
At age 15 in 1983 she was a finalist at the inaugural Elite Model Management Look of the Year modeling contest (now called Elite Model Look).
Seymour posed for the Victoria’s Secret catalogs.
And she was a hit for Hugh Hefner: In March 1991, and again in February 1993, Seymour posed for Playboy.
In 1998, Seymour wrote Stephanie Seymour’s Beauty Secrets for Dummies.
In 2006, she appeared in a campaign for Gap with her children.
Salvatore Ferragamo’s creative campaign for his fall/winter 2007/2008 collection featured Seymour and Claudia Schiffer.
She worked for Victoria’s Secret; seen on the cover of their catalog
Her Cosmo covers were gorgeous and many
She was the beauty on top of it all: Seen on the cover of Harpers Bazaar in 1988
She and Axl were front page news. They started dating in 1991. She appeared in two music videos by Guns N’ Roses: Don’t Cry and November Rain. The couple were reportedly engaged, but they broke up in February 1993
Seymour was joined by other fellow supermodels Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Daria Werbowy, Christy Turlington, and Amber Valletta for the September 2013 issue of Interview magazine titled ‘Model’.
Seymour co-founded and launched the lingerie line Raven & Sparrow in 2017.
And she looked amazing on the cover of Vanity Fair last year.
The California native wore a sheer dress for her own stand alone cover last year
She is seen far right at the bottom in a lace outfit that was stamped 1999 – the shoot was by Luigi and Iango in 2023
Seymour’s first acting role was as explosives expert Cynna Stone in the video game Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller.
She played the unusual part of a live actor in a game whose characters and scenery were nearly all CG renders.
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.
At the age of 14, she began dating 42 year old John Casablancas, the head of Elite Model Management, who was, at the time, married to model Jeanette Christiansen. The couple lived together before Seymour broke off the relationship.
From 1989 to 1990, she was married to guitarist Tommy Andrews. They have a son named Dylan together.
By mid-1991, she had become involved with Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N’ Roses. She appeared in two music videos by Guns N’ Roses: ‘Don’t Cry’ and ‘November Rain’. The couple were engaged, but they broke up in February 1993.
In August 1993, Rose sued Seymour claiming she assaulted him and stole more than $100,000 worth of jewelry
Seymour countersued claiming he was physically abusive.
Seymour subpoenaed Erin Everly, Rose’s ex-wife, to testify that she was also abused by him. The lawsuits were eventually settled.
Shortly after her breakup with Rose, Seymour began dating business man Peter Brant, who was married and the father of five children. She gave birth to the couple’s first son, Peter II, in December 1993.
Seen with her son Harry who died and her husband Peter in 2015
Seymour and Brant married in July 1995 in Paris. Seymour gave birth to a second son, Harry, in 1996, and a daughter in 2004. In March 2009, Seymour filed for divorce from Brant after almost 14 years of marriage. The couple reconciled in 2010.
In January 2021, Harry died at age 24 from an accidental prescription medication overdose, after struggling with addiction for several years.
Last year she said she wears her dead son’s clothes. She admitted it ‘feels so good’ to keep his memory alive through his favorite outfits.
She told WSJ. magazine of wearing Harry’s suit for the photoshoot that accompanied her interview: ‘It’s a suit that I keep hanging in my dressing room, which is this big room where I keep all my stuff. I do my make-up there. I live in that room.
‘I looked at that suit one night and I said, ‘I’m going to put it on.’ It fit me.
‘It still feels so good to put his clothes on.
‘I packed up these huge trunks with all his things, and I have this idea that I want to keep photographing his clothes because I think he would love it. He’s got this whole flock of women that would love to wear his clothes and be photographed. That’s something I’m going to enjoy doing.’
Stephanie recalled how Harry and his brother Peter were always interested in fashion and loved to choose her outfits when she went to parent-teacher meetings at school.
Seen with a friend in a November 8 post to Instagram
Seen in 2020 at the Marc Jacobs fashion show at Park Avenue Armory in NYC
She recalled: ‘It was the cutest thing when they were in elementary school. I would say, ‘OK, you can choose my outfit,’ and then he would go through everything, the vintage, the everything, lay it all on the floor.’
On one occasion, Harry picked out a baby-blue vintage Christian Dior dress and matching Manolo Blahnik shoes.
She added: ‘I’d say, ‘Harry, I can’t wear a vintage couture dress to a parent-teacher conference’ and he’d say, ‘Why not?’
Stephanie also revealed her eldest son Dylan – whose father is her first husband Tommy Andrews – became a dad for the first time in October and named his little boy in honour of his late half-brother.
She said: ‘He had a little boy. And they named him Harry.’
