Growing Bolder

Growing Bolder

A glance at international catwalks show that they are no longer exclusively populated by leggy teenagers. At September’s Paris Fashion Week, Jane Fonda, Helen Mirren and six supermodels of the 1990s strutted down the runway. The fashion industry has finally woken up, realising that men and women who can afford expensive clothes want to see models their own age wearing them. Whereas in the past the 60-plus model would be relegated to lifestyle adverts in lilac cardigans, today there is a plethora of vivacious silver-haired models in high-fashion glossies. Over the next few pages we celebrate four of them.