All eyes have been on London with London Fashion Week. Some
amazing runway shows that have had that va va vroom, head turning outfits that
made you want to rush up to the designer with your overdraft ready to drop as
much cash as it takes to get that outfit you had your eye on. Or if you were
really wooed and felt money was no object, you would empty your bank account
for the entire collection.
Then came on to our TV screens (in London UK) five
delightful mature women and with an average age of 80, all had a similar
indomitable spirit, a desire to keep going, to look stylish and to have fun. Whose
clothes range from smart to stunning, who wooed us with their presence, set their
own style and danced to their own fashion beat.
They set the benchmark high for mature fashionistas. Who says being old
you must resort to wearing a beige twinset, a set of pearls and blue rinse dyed
hair. Certainly these women never got that memo! Not a facelift or Botox
insight, they had aged beautifully, with wrinkles, grey hair and most of all
confidence that would put younger women to shame.
I always admire women especially older women who love themselves; they eat well and regular exercise. Their priority is to take
care of themselves and not a shamed to say they have weekly trips to the
hairdressers. When questioned about it one responded with “Why not? Would she
ask a young woman that question?”
I loved it when you heard Jean woods say “I think I would say that I’m a bit unusual
for my age,” whose Mary Quant-style fringe, statement jewellery and Doc Martin
boots would give any young fashionistas a run for their money. No one rocks a
pair of Doc Martins with such style and elegance as Jean. At 75, Jean Woods
doesn't care what people think of her. She runs regularly, a minimum 3 times a
week. Following the death of her husband, she “reinvented herself” and went to
work for the high-street store Gap - at the age of 70, she became their oldest
employee. She had an interview and they hired her on the spot.
Quirky Sue Kreitzman at 73 with her red trade marked glasses
reminds me of Sally Jessie Raphel (the American talk show host) who is known
for hers too. Sue, an artist who wears
her designs and turns the process of getting dressed into an art form; and she
takes it quite literally “I have to have my art on my back,” she says. We were
invited into her life showing us her racks of clothes and designs, which could
be described as a multitude of a giant magnificent coloured rainbow.
Gillian Lynne at age 87, a former ballet dancer, looks half
her age (and choreographer of West End shows like Cats and Phantom of the
Opera). Defies the aging process, works in a studio and is still amazingly
supple, does 40 minutes of stretches every morning ensure that she can still
touch her knee with her nose. She married a younger guy who is people
disapproved of but she couldn’t give a dam what people think or thought. She showed
us a new pair of Prada shoes that she had brought, mischievously: "I
thought, well, sod it." Many her age wouldn’t be stepping out in Prada.
Daphne Selfe, at 85 she is the world’s oldest supermodel,
with over 60 years in the fashion industry and at aged 80 appeared on the cover
of Italian Vogue aged 80. In the UK this
year is the face of TK Maxx TV adverts. What I like too she has wrinkles and
long silver hair. She never got the memo that women over 40 should not have
long hair!
Fabulous Fashionistas, showed us that age is simply a number
and being stylish has no age barrier. It
also told us the important of take care of ourselves, most importantly dancing
to your own beat.
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