Over the last few years, there’s been a noticeable increase in activity online and off in support of stylish seniors.
In 2013, a conference at the London College of Fashion “announced itself with a chat with Advanced Style’s Ari Seth Cohen, followed by a quick blast of exercise led by the alarmingly supple and energetic Daphne Selfe and rounded off with Sue Kreitzman styling up That’s Not My Age blogger Alyson Walsh – who finished the evening looking pretty fabulous. Speaking of which, you will surely recognise both Sue and Daphne from Sue Bourne’s documentary, Fabulous Fashionistas. My word, has that programme started something – I believe we have the seeds of a revolution.” Read more here.
In 2014, The Invisible Woman, writer of the regular column, “The Vintage Years,” for the UK’s The Guardian, talks about her frustration with what fashions are offered to older women and announces a quest to find designers who offer what really does work. Vivienne Westwood is her first choice. Read more here.
In 2015, fashion advertising embraced the older model: “For the last three years at about this time — which is to say, in the nascent days of the new year, when the calendar lies clear and the sense of possibility is at its apex — Selfridges, the British department store, has dedicated its windows, all 13 of them, to a new class of Bright Young Things: dozens of up-and-coming stars of fashion and art, including names like Simone Rocha, Christopher Shannon and Maarten van der Horst, who it thinks will shape what we wear and how we shop in the year to come.
“New year, new generation!
“But this year, things look a bit different. [This year], the emporium will unveil its first windows of 2015, all dedicated to the work of Bright Old Things (BOTs): 14 men and women of a certain age, who changed careers late in life, moving into the worlds of fashion and art at a time most people start thinking about saying goodbye to fashionable things.”
Read more here about “Fashion’s Two-Faced Relationship with Age.”
