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"There is a real tendency with fashion to trend-chase, and the older women don't do it," she says. "Older women have a very developed sense of their own style. Older women bring something very personal. Fashion," she lowers her voice slightly, "got really removed from reality and carried away with itself." (I suspect she is thinking of that absurd Peter Jensen baby-gro.) "But now there is more a sense of reality," she says, "Designers are being more inclusive."
But mainstream fashion will always worship the young, she says, because it believes that the young are sexy, and sexy sells product. "There is a public relations element to using older models, to bucking the trend," she says. "With Tom Ford's New York Fashion Week show, there was an element of 'Yes, let's grab the headlines'.
I have a private theory, too. Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue and the most powerful woman - or thing - in fashion, is ageing, too. At the age of 60, she is more than capable of stroking a mirror and saying: "The next big thing is me…"
And I laugh, too.
It is partly business. Baby boomers are ageing, older women have more money and they buy more clothes. Explaining his reason for using older models, Francisco Costa, the creative director of Calvin Klein, said: "I wanted a cast that represented a customer I design for, and that's not really a 16-year-old. We wanted to acknowledge women who have always worn our clothes."
I looked at Advanced Style this morning and found a 98-year-old woman in a grey trouser suit and golden gipsy earrings walking down Madison Avenue with a stick. She looked very cool, as if she was about to hit toddlers. Then came an old man dressed in an orange suit and cowboy boots, laughing and holding a pocket watch, even though I sensed time is not something he cares about. Then there was a woman in a wondrous sort of hat, which looked like a jewelled colander with blue ears. The final woman, in fur and leather breastplate, looked like a follower of Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, but slightly more ruthless.
Fashion - whom I normally despise, considering her an acolyte of the young,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the rich and the thin - has promised again to mend her ways. Fashion is a bit of a junkie, in that she is always saying one thing and doing another, but now she has announced that to be elderly - or at least middle-aged - is fashionable. This edict comes just in time for London Fashion Week, which began on Friday, which means that for the first time in recorded history, I will not be behind a picket line throwing doughnuts.
I stared at the photographs and wondered why these people do not look ridiculous, as very styled people often do. And I decided - it is because they are not models. Models, in one of the many paradoxes of fashion that I note but do not really understand,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], do not actually look that good in the clothes, because they do not look very human in them. They look neither easy nor joyous. This is partly because looking contemptuous and unreachable is part of the model manifesto - like hostages, models must never smile. It is also because all models, when not on the catwalk, wear T-shirts and shorts. In their heads, it seems, they are always in Ibiza.
BY Tanya Gold |19 September 2010
So, is this a proper change, this cult of age? "No," she says, and laughs again. "But it will come around again."
Even so, this inclusiveness enchants me, even though applauding fashion for being inclusive is like applauding water for being wet - for me, at least, that is its job; because age-equals-beauty makes me ponder my grandmother, who is still the only person I have ever seen who could wear a mink coat and a turban and not look like a heart-broken transvestite. She is my argument that the old can look wonderful and, had you met her, you would realise I need no other. She once wore an armless red satin cheongsam at 70, like the Empress Wu transported to Croydon. Wherever she walked, was a catwalk.
So, could it be that fashion is becoming human, even loveable? I speak to Brenda Polan, director of programmes at the London College of Fashion. Why, I ask, is the older woman becoming a style icon? Polan giggles gently and then points out that some designers - Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood, for instance - have always sent older women down the catwalk. "In the 1980s, Bodymap used to send their mums on," she says,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "usually with a fag hanging out of their mouths."
Which brings me to an influential blog called Advanced Style, which has more than a million followers. Its creator, the New York photographer and artist Ari Seth Cohen, 28,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], strolls around the fashion capitals of the world with a camera, taking pictures of older men and women, and posting them online for his armies of young,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fashion-munching devotees. He is the most visible of a gaggle of internet artists who celebrate the beauty of age.
Clare Coulson helps compile the annual Best Dressed List for Harper's Bazaar. While I have always thought "Best In Show" awards were for dogs, not people, it is a good indicator of what fashion thinks, for the next 13 seconds, anyway. Coulson says she loves the images of older women because, unlike the occupants of planet wacko, they don't wear leg warmers one season and baby-gros the next.
Cohen moved to New York from Seattle and one day, he says, he saw a documentary about an actress called Mimi Weddell, who died last year. She was addicted to wearing hats, and her style credentials were so shimmering she even appeared as a homophobic grandmother in Sex and the City. "She was so stylish and elegant in her early nineties," Cohen says. "She had a sense of personal style and freedom."
If it's true, that is - and research suggests it is. In New York last spring, Calvin Klein put grey-haired mother-of-three Kristen McMenamy, 45, on his catwalk to parade his Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Marc Jacobs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], meanwhile, cast Elle Macpherson, 47, who is, in fashion terms at least, a rotting corpse. Last week, again in New York, Tom Ford used the actresses Rita Wilson, 53, and Lauren Hutton, 66, to wear his clothes. It was a no-press show but, since all no-press shows generate enormous publicity, I can tell you these two older women had the biggest ovation of the night.
The word freedom, I sense, is the key. "Older people wear their clothes with confidence because they no longer have anyone to impress," he says. "I see more beauty in them. These pictures are not just images. Each one tells a story." I agree with him. No one, for me, looks more like a woman than an old woman. Cohen's images have appeared in British Grazia, Italian Elle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and on the walls of that temple to the cult of being 16, Selfridges.
"But Ford also really does admire women with character," Polan concedes, "and there are advantages to maturity. It is not just wrinkles and a bit of sag. Your mind gets more interesting and it shows in the face. But fashion needs novelty. So fashion likes gimmicks."
London Fashion Week: On trend... after a fashion - Telegraph
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London Fashion Week: On trend... after a fashion
Comfortable in their sense of style, women of a certain age are suddenly blazing a trail across the catwalk. As London Fashion Week hits its stride, Tanya Gold reports.

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