{"id":12535,"date":"2023-01-21T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2023-01-29T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T17:51:16","slug":"hottygenarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/21\/hottygenarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottygenarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/older-models-fashion-over-60-aging-11673668643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">They\u2019re Cover Girls. They\u2019re in Their 70s.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Sky-high demand for older models\u2014women in their 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s\u2014is creating a silver wave in the modeling industry. They even get stopped at the supermarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/rory-satran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rory Satran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-703388?width=860&amp;height=573\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maye Musk, part of a wave of successful older models, appeared on the cover of 2022\u2019s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue at age 74. PHOTO:\u00a0YU TSAI\/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED\/CONTOUR RA BY GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninety-year-old Frances Dunscombe only began modeling at age 82 after the death of her husband. When her daughter, a model in her 60s, suggested Ms. Dunscombe join her to visit her agency, she scoffed, \u201cYou must be joking.\u201d Now, she realizes, \u201cActually, I think it was quite a good time to start modeling, because it wasn\u2019t going to go to my head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A childhood war evacuee in Britain, Ms. Dunscombe left school at 15 and didn\u2019t have a major career until modeling. Now, several years into her modeling career, she\u2019s done lingerie pictures, worn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/HK\/XHKG\/1913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prada<\/a>\u00a0in Hunger magazine and been on the cover of Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK. Ms. Dunscombe, who lives in Surrey, United Kingdom, sees her mission as inspiring and advocating for older women. \u201cI get extremely irritated when fashion editors promote the most frumpy of clothes for the older age groups,\u201d she said. \u201cAren\u2019t they aware of what is going on at the moment? That we are coming to the fore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Dunscombe is part of the fashion and beauty industry\u2019s new silver wave. In recent years, luxury fashion brands, direct-to-consumer beauty brands and mass clothing lines have begun casting older models\u2014<em>much<\/em>\u00a0older models. Some are celebrities, but increasingly, they are unknowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/older-models-fashion-over-60-aging-11673668643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal They\u2019re Cover Girls. They\u2019re in Their 70s. Sky-high demand for older models\u2014women in their 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s\u2014is creating a silver wave in the modeling industry. They even get stopped at the supermarket. By\u00a0Rory Satran Ninety-year-old Frances Dunscombe only began modeling at age 82 after the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}