On the cusp of releasing her sixth book, Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn, Beker spoke to The Globe about her life pre- and post-FashionTelevision and how she dealt with a breast-cancer diagnosis
Were it not for Jeanne Beker , the world’s fashion IQ would not be half as high as it is today. As the host and sometime-producer offor nearly 30 years, Beker ’s onscreen journalistic chutzpah have given zoomers, boomers, Gen Xers and millennials a behind-the-curtain look into high style.
I did it on the first day I sat in a chemo pod at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. It happened to be National Cancer Wellness Awareness Day and The book is told through the lens of wardrobe. Pieces of clothing and accessories act as springboards for storytelling. There’s one incredible jacket that I got back in the eighties – I don’t know who designed it – but it was hand-dyed and coloured. I wore it for a photo shoot that I did with the late, great journalist Peter Goddard, who wrote about me when I got up on stage, at 17, to dance with Ronnie Hawkins at the Toronto Pop Festival in 1969. I was wearing a pompom yellow bikini top.
Oh, yes. The idea of smash-and-grab, in-your-face television with just unapologetically being there in the moment and improvising. That was incredible training for everything that I ended up doing, because it is essentially the art of improv. John Martin and I started our show in 1979. It was pre-MTV. That hadn’t even been invented yet but that immediacy is everywhere now.McQueen
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