Career
He was also a patron of the arts Sekers had trained trained in textile technology in Krefeld, Germany. During World World War II West Cumberland Silk Mills was required to make parachute silk.
When supplies of silk ran low, and the new experimental product nylon was introduced as a replacement, Sekers began experimenting with the new synthetic fabric, seeing its potential for dressmaking.
An introduction to Christian Dior led to Sekers producing fabrics for him and many others in the field of Haute Couture. In the 1960s, Sekers began to design and produce furnishing fabrics.
He sat on the boards of Glyndeborne, the Royal Opera House, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was an early supporter of the painter Percy Kelly. He was an early patron of the portrait painter Judy Cassab and commissioned work by Oliver Messel, Graham Sutherland, John Piper and Suzanne Balkanyi.
Sekers established and endowed a trust to convert a barn at his home at Rosehill, Whitehaven, into the Rosehill Theatre.
He appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 22 April 1968. Sekers died on 23 June 1972, in Yugoslavia, while on holiday. His portrait, a 1969 photograph by Godfrey Argent is in the National Portrait Gallery.