83-year-old Model Carmen Dell’Orefice Lands Magazine Cover

[marylander1940]

Carmen Dell’Orefice on the cover of New You magazine

 

Who says the modeling industry is ageist? In the past six months, 68-year-old Helen Mirren starred in a L’Oreal Paris commercial, 80-year-old Joan Didion became the face of Celine, 65-year-old Twiggy landed a L’Oreal Professionnel campaign, 68-year-old Charlotte Rampling starred in ads for Nars, and 65-year-old Jessica Lange became the face of Marc Jacobs Beauty. Now 83-year-old supermodel Carmen Dell’Orefice is on a special edition cover of New You magazine.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/83-year-old-model-carmen-dellorefice-lands-110863096593.html

 

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9d621fde4b85ffb466e4fa715cf19b0e6eae043d/c=0-60-2771-1625&r=x1803&c=3200x1800/local/-/media/2015/02/11/USATODAY/USATODAY/635592650992052252-New-You-COVER.jpg

[Electra225]

Good for her and good for all of them!!! I hope that I look that good at age 83--I've got 30 years to go and 30 years to prepare (I hope I can do it without plastic surgery)!!

[+ SundayZip]

Wow. She is a very beautiful women and it's great to see an 83 year old woman featured as a model, but I'd say the modeling industry would be less agiest when we see 80-something models that look more like this:

 

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01457/SNA2219AA-532_1457506a.jpg

[+ quoththeraven]

I'd also note that while she's on the cover of a magazine, the others mentioned are in ads, not editorial pages. Editorial pages are still dominated by skinny (and unsmiling) young white women.

 

She's beautiful and has great features and face structure -- something she was born with (unless she's had cosmetic surgery) and can't claim credit for. It's one thing to look for the right aesthetics -- beauty sells magazines -- but the overall ethos of beauty and fashion magazines makes women think they must all strive to look and dress like the models they see there and that if they aren't skinny and attractive-looking, there's something wrong with them.

[bigvalboy]

God bless her....I think she looks positively fabulous, but I always thought that Joan Rivers looked good also. As my friend once said to me, "You can screw this growing old gracefully bullshit, I'm going into it kicking and screaming."

[rvwnsd]

Wow. She is a very beautiful women and it's great to see an 83 year old woman featured as a model, but I'd say the modeling industry would be less agiest when we see 80-something models that look more like this:

 

 

With the right makeup and glasses she would look every bit as beautiful as the supermodel.

[+ FreshFluff]

With the right makeup and glasses she would look every bit as beautiful as the supermodel.

 

True, you can't compare a photo of a woman in her everyday attire to one who has the benefit of a professional makeup artist, photographer, and (likely) a Photoshop expert.

 

However, Carmen Dell'Orefice, like Christy Brinkley, has a rare combination of exceptional features and a face that ages extremely well.

 

It's one thing to look for the right aesthetics -- beauty sells magazines -- but the overall ethos of beauty and fashion magazines makes women think they must all strive to look and dress like the models they see there and that if they aren't skinny and attractive-looking, there's something wrong with them.

 

A woman's appearance (along with her overall ability to seduce) are her main assets in the sexual marketplace, and insecurities about these issues pre-dated the modern advertising industry. Women often becoming insecure when they see young/beautiful/thin women in real life. I think that Madison Avenue simply leverages those existing insecurities to create demand for particular products.

 

Madison Avenue also taps into straight men's insecurities (about height etc.), but in a more subtle way. Men are encouraged to to sublimate these feelings of inadequacy into a desire for objects that signal status.

[+ FreshFluff]

God bless her....I think she looks positively fabulous, but I always thought that Joan Rivers looked good also. As my friend once said to me, "You can screw this growing old gracefully bullshit, I'm going into it kicking and screaming."

 

Nothing wrong with giving aging a kick in the crown jewels and escaping for a while before it re-captures you.

 

Carmen herself get some help from modern medicine, according to this interview.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2355862/Carmen-DellOrefice-82-year-old-model-reveals-secrets-lasting-success.html

[BaronArtz]

I remember that Carmen lost all of her life's savings in the Madoff scandal. Delighted to see that she bounced back with vigor and graces the cover of magazines.