Posts tagged with Beauty of Age

August 1, 2012 

The Long Run

More information about the RSA event The Long Run: Life is a Marathon Life as a Marathon

April 30, 2012  A mature model on the LCF BA Catwalk 2010. Image Credit: Catwalking.com

Beauty of Age

In preparing for the Beauty of Age debate tonight, a number of themes have emerged that have really set me wondering as to where our contemporary emphasis on equating youth with beauty will lead. For example, growing interest in the ancient fairy tale, Snow White. Currently a number of films, ballets and television programmes are [...]

March 5, 2012 

Carmen Dell’Orefice

I first met Carmen about four years ago when she came to the opening of David Downtown’s exhibition in the Fashion Space Gallery here at the College. It was hard not to be awestruck- a reaction I now recognise when people are first introduced to her. I knew the facts of her life and had [...]

November 1, 2011  Ali Mahdavi. Paris 2011

A Model of a Woman

Today there are thousands of girls aspiring to be the next Kate Moss in an age when perhaps it has never been easier to get into modelling. Yet there was once a golden age, when only a handful of models made it into the history books. We meet one of them Flicking through a magazine, [...]