How to be old: Lessons from a 70-year-old former NYC influencer
“What began as a way to express myself artistically devolved into one that was more about consumption than creativity,” she wrote last monthSlater's new memoir, “How to be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon,” which hits shelves this month, focuses on her journey from professor to model to writer. The book also touches on her style evolution, what it's like to sit in the front row at a fashion show, and what it means to get older.
When I first started in the early 2010s, I think my being shown as an older woman in the world of fashion was transgressive. I think, over time, like anything else, society doubles back and says, "OK, we're going to put you back in the box that you belong in." I think the vast majority of older people are in the middle. We are what I call, and a friend of mine, Elizabeth White, calls, the hidden middle.
In the early days, it was pretty unanimous: How do you not become invisible? In the later part of the decade, a lot of women were talking about some of the pleasures of invisibility and not being the object of the male gaze and being more in control of when they were being seen and by whom. They were asking the question, "who do I really want to be visible to and why?"
For me, style is an intensely personal thing that comes from inside of us. I think when you try to get your style from outside of you that you're always comparing and falling short. For me, it's like, "how can I use clothing to express who I am today or who I might want to play around with being today?"
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