Shine on
Every once in awhile I see a shot of a mature woman that just stops me in my tracks, and that's the effect of the shot Scott Schuman posted on The Sartorialist this week, of an anonymous Milanesa.She's grey and definitely not injected, lifted or fluffed. I keep returning to look at at the sparkle on her cheek and earlobe. Her scarf. The sensitivity in her face.
Brava!
Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis, 82, a history and anthropology
professor at the University of Toronto, recently won the Holberg International Memorial Prize, a Swedish honour that includes a $768,000 award.The awards committee cited her as "one of the most creative historians writing today". She is donating part of her prize money to charity but did say she'd buy a new spring coat.
The attitude of the anonymous woman, the accomplishment of Dr. Zemon Davis– the qualities of these women encourage and strengthen me.
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82--and she's still working? Love it!
My all-time favorite elderly woman is Glen Close. Classy !
I've never read any of Dr. Davis's books but I look forward to reading them.
How wonderful to have these inspiring examples of women whose beauty comes from their passions and interests rather than from surgical procedures and toxic injections . . . thanks for this post, duchesse!
What strikes me, as a North American, is the prevalence of these beliefs: that
1. Ageing is most undesirable and is therefore is to be erased from the face and
2. Intellectual development is appropriate for young adults but then you have learned all you can or need to.
Agree with you about Sartorialist vs Advanced Style - the latter often makes me cringe.
I'm mulling whether to grow out my hair colour but the prospect terrifies me - how people will treat me, as a sexless, professionally worthless old thing. (I don't have or want children or grandchildren so matriarch is out). The silvery tone with almost blacks is nice - being treated as an ancestor when I'm an eternal ado less so. I have zero need of injections so that isn't even an issue. My mum who is over 90 is not wrinkly.
s., I'm glad you ponderated the Europe stuff - I've lived on the other side of the pond for considerable times (and here live in French-speaking Québec) and find there are really tribes between the low and high maintenance ladies. Oh, the low-maintenance will certainly colour their hair if they wish and wear some lipstick and a bit of eye makeup, and not look as hopeless as I've seen too often in North America, but the high maintenance are rather ghastly. (Though Berlusconi, a man, is the worst).
S., the wasp doyennes tend to become asexual, which is not cool either, and wear hideous pastels.