They are slender, beautiful, desirable … They decorate covers and billboards. One caveat: they are well over 60! The editorial staff of Woman’s Day remembered well-known fashion models, who cannot be called young for a long time.
Age: 66 years.
Career: founder of the cosmetic and perfumery brand Rodin Olio Lusso, model.
Portfolio: The Row pre-fall 2014 lookbook, Karen Walker spring-summer 2013 ad campaign, Matches Fashion, an online retailer for Style Report.
Bright accessories, colorful skirts, tattoos … It seems that their owner, an ash blonde, is not 30. But only Linda takes off her glasses and lifts her hat, as it becomes clear: she is good for us grandmothers.
Linda is the owner of her own perfumery brand, makes friends with Hollywood stars, and sometimes works as a model for fun … And quite successfully!
Curiously, Linda doesn’t dye her hair. It was not peroxide that made them ash, but gray hair … And also opposes any plastic.
“All my life I have done what I love, and not what others expected of me. Of course, it takes a certain amount of courage, but I managed to find it inside myself, ”says Linda.
Age: 83 years.
Career: model, author of the book “To be beautiful: secrets and techniques that I have learned over 40 years of working as a model.”
Portfolio: фотосессии для Moschino, Lancaster, Rolex, Target, Chanel, Banana Republic, Elizabeth Arden, GAP.
Carmen got into the Guinness Book of Records as the most “catwalk model” … For the first time a girl appeared in front of a camera lens at the age of 14, although it was difficult to call her a star then. On the contrary, until the age of 30, she was quite ordinary.
And then she left the podium altogether, devoting herself to raising children. Carmen returned to the world of fashion, only having exchanged her fifties and leaving behind her third failed marriage … But she returned as a queen! Carmen, unlike many women, was not young, did not dye her hair in natural colors. And she only emphasized her gray hair, which she won love.
Age: 82 years.
Career: former marketing director for a glossy magazine.
Portfolio: advertising campaign for Karen Walker spring-summer 2013, photo shoots for Dazed, Another Magazine and Guardian.
This woman is an opera singer, ex-director in a glossy magazine, wife, mother and grandmother … She is fond of singing, loves to visit theater and museums. Reads and travels a lot.
And the modeling business considers it a hobby, which, by the way, has recently begun to bring good income …
Age: 93 years.
Career: decorator and collector of antiques.
Portfolio: advertising campaigns Kate Spade, Alexis Bittar.
There is no second such American grandmother! She lives in the center of New York, in Manhattan, and like the heroine of “Sex and the City” Kerry Bradshaw most of all loves unusual things.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s interior items or fancy necklaces from Africa!
Of course, it is impossible to pass by such a grandmother. That is why fashion photographers and editors love Iris so much, every now and then inviting her to decorate the covers.
Age: 86 years.
Career: worked as a model all her life.
Portfolio: Shooting for Vogue and Marie Claire, participation in advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana and Moschino.
86-year-old beauty Daphne Self has been working as a model for 64 years! She appeared on the podium in 1950 and, with a height of 170 centimeters, weighed 63 kg. Now she would be called fat, but in those days there were completely different canons of beauty …
Daphne is in wide demand to this day. He does not deny himself candid photo shoots. And her one working day costs about $ 1500, which is quite good at the current exchange rate – almost 120 thousand rubles …
Daphne assures that she has never done plastic surgery, and shows her hands to those who claim the opposite.
Like, if there were operations, she would start with flabby arms, not her chest and certainly not her lips.
Age: 62 years.
Career: make-up and makeup artist.
Portfolio: Graced the covers of The Oprah Magazine, More, Glamor, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, and also starred for Garnier, Olay, Elizabeth Arden, Hush Puppies shoes, Macy’s New York department store and many other brands.
Cindy Joseph has worked as a makeup artist all her life. But at 49, her life changed dramatically. Cindy met an agent on the street – he was looking for a model for a Dolce & Gabbana commercial. Advertisers liked the image of a mature woman who consciously accepts her age and does not try to hide it. Thus began a second life for Joseph …
And with a new job came a new love. True, Cindy is in no hurry to get married. She likes to enjoy the status of “bride” more.
Age: 82 years.
Career: Danced at the Apollo Theater all her long life.
Portfolio: Shooting for the Lanvin advertising campaign.
Jacqueline Murdoch dreamed of a career as a fashion model since childhood, but her dream was destined to come true only when the woman turned 82. Three years earlier, Jacqueline met the famous photographer Ari Set Coen on the street. Ari took a photo of Jacqueline, and this was the end of their relationship, but it turned out differently.
Photos posted on his blog were noticed by employees of the Lanvin house. And voila! – they were looking for such a gorgeous lady for the filming of their new advertising campaign.
The photographer invited Jacqueline to take part in a fashion photoset, and she, of course, did not refuse.
Age: 61 year.
Career: actress.
Portfolio: Shooting for the American Apparel brand.
Unlike her runway colleagues, 61-year-old Jackie O’Shaughnessy never wanted to become a model. It seems that going to the casting at the age of 13, where the girl was told to lose weight and fix her nose, turned her away from this profession forever!
And she concentrated on acting …
And only when Jackie was 60 years old, fate brought her together with the head of the American Apparel brand Marsha Brady.
For the first time women encountered on the street – Marsha was delighted with Jackie’s sense of style and complimented her.
And two days later they met again – at adjacent tables in the restaurant. Then their conversation dragged on for a long time, and Marsha invited her new friend to take part in an advertising campaign for her brand.
The photo session turned out to be very unusual and even almost turned into a scandal – candid poses and a minimal amount of clothes on an elderly woman caused the outrage of the public.