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Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutJune 16, 2017

Older Models At Evans Bikes

By Amanda

Well done Evans Cycles on using this image of a stylish grown up woman – Anne, apparently- on their A Match Made In Evans advertising. Good to see. I’m a keen urban cyclist, although I rarely do distances longer than… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2017

Older Models Are Beautiful, Why Don’t We See More Of Them?

By Amanda

I was going to write about my trip to the Venice Biennale art show today, but that will have to wait, because Harper’s Bazaar needs a big pat on the back for its July photo shoot, featuring two beautiful, older… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 16, 2017

Older Models Looking Awesome With Lonely Lingerie

By Amanda

Older models are happening again, there were some great examples on the catwalks (Dries Van Noten was our favourite) and I was really thrilled to see older models featured in a lingerie campaign this week. The gorgeous Mercy Brewer, seen… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 11, 2016

Maye Musk for James Perse

By Jane

The new ad campaign for Californian brand James Perse‘s A/W 16/17 collection features 68-year-old model Maye Musk. A spokesperson for the 20-year-old brand says they are “trying to change customers’ expectations from the young beach set to underscore it has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 14, 2015

Party clothes for grown ups, AKA another excuse to visit &Other Stories

By Amanda

This weekend I had my friend Lyndsey up from deepest Pembrokeshire, where there are plenty of beautiful Welsh blankets, but fewer stores selling well priced, current fashion. She is always keen to bring herself up to sartorial speed on her… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenDecember 10, 2015

Good Gifts for Grown Up Gardeners

By Amanda

While we’re out and about in a festive shopping frenzy, or indeed doing it all online this year, it’s worth taking a moment to look at the imagery being used to flog us stuff. We grown up women had the… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingFebruary 18, 2015

Have I Said Too Much? by Carole White

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’y read this yet, but I bet it’s fabulous. You may remember we interviewed Carole back here, where she was extremely entertaining and very candid on the state of the fashion model industry. She has run her… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 3, 2014

Flattering necklines for grown up women

By Amanda

While women of the world recoil in disgust, again, at some sleezey bloke posting hacked images of female celebrities without their clothes (we’re hoping there’s a special, nasty room in hell where people like this are headed too) we’re looking … Read More

Home & GardenAugust 26, 2014

Readers Kitchens: Blending, Brewing and Blessing with Kristin Perers

By Amanda

We haven’t done a Readers Kitchens for ages, but when we visited the inspiring kitchen of photographer and This Is 50 blogger Kristin Perers, it was a no-brainer, it just HAD to go on the blog. Kristin is a vicar’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 20, 2014

Older models, another success: Angelica Huston for Gap

By Amanda

I mentioned earlier this month about how big brands were starting to use older models in their all important September advertising, well looks who turned up in the Gap campaign… The awesome Angelica Huston. The adverts, entitled Dress Normal, are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2014

Great use of older models by jewellery designer Zorya

By Amanda

We mentioned last week the fab film by The Future Lab, which highlights how the beauty industry is being very slow to realise that using older models in their marketing campaigns might be no bad thing, since, y’know, there are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 3, 2014

Older models in fashion; slowly but surely making their mark

By Amanda

It’s been rather a good start to the year for older models. It’s not just that there’s more of them about in 2014, but we’re also seeing more coverage on blogs, websites and in the printed press about how having… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 25, 2013

Older models: Jenni Rhodes, looking good in Zara

By Amanda

Last week I was doing some work with MA fashion journalism students at the London College of Fashion and was thrilled to see that one of them, Ana Rosado, is working on a final project that’s a fashion magazine for… Read More