Posts tagged with Carmen Dell’Orefice

July 12, 2012  Louise Maxwell

Life as a Marathon

We sometimes live our lives as though we are running a series of sprints, 100 metres to our desired career, 200 metres to the perfect house. Ageing is considered to be something that affects us in later life. What if we consider ageing – as some scientific studies have found – to be a lifelong [...]

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, [...]