Personally I think Elle Macpherson looks damn good for a 47 year old woman. One might induct her into the category of MILF. Nevertheless if you still got it flaunt it Seriously what man would not want his wife to look this good at 47???
via the telegraph
Wrong! Pictures today of Elle Macpherson on the school run in Notting Hill, wearing shredded skinny jeans, a cropped fur coat, Roxy Music T-shirt, high-heeled boots and Ray-ban aviators prove that no matter how good the package, when it comes to fashion trends, women have a sell-by date.
In pictures: women who refuse to dress their age
There's no denying that the mother of two has still got it going on - indeed, many 20 year-olds would kill to look like her in their skinny jeans - but the classic mistake Elle has made is thinking that having the body of a woman 20 years younger, means she can dress like one. In short, she is a victim of what fashion insiders call 1950 syndrome - 19 from behind, 50 from the front.
She's not alone with this condition. The list of serial offenders is as long as their hemlines are short. Kate Moss is a case in point. It's not that she hasn't got the figure to pull off hot-pants, it's just that at 37, should hot-pants really be your go-to garment? I have visions of Kate going clubbing with her daughter Lila a few years from now, borrowing the embarrassed teenager's latest Topshop acquisitions like the Harry Enfield character who would crow "people think we're sisters" about herself and her dress-a-like daughter.
This doesn't mean women can't be fashionable of course - once you hit your mid-thirties you don't have to shop at Boden - it's just about age-appropriateness. If you are struggling to decipher what your boundaries should be, find yourself an age icon - someone chic in the public eye whose age, life-stage and style roughly mirror yours - and next time you are standing in the changing room in Zara thinking 'am I too old for this?' just imagine if they would wear it. As a 36 year-old mother of two, for me it's Vanessa Paradis for my grown-up self, and Drew Barrymore when I'm feeling rebellious.
What would Drew Barrymore wear?
All Elle needs to do is stop thinking 'What would Willow Smith wear' and maybe take some tips from fellow ageing Supermodels Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer, who both seem to have the concept of growing old gracefully down pat.
via the telegraph
Forty seven year-old ex-supermodel Elle Macpherson gives a master class in what not to wear.
BY Belinda White | 08 February 2011
In your face mums! Elle Macpherson on the school run. Photo: REX
If you're an ex-supermodel, the onslaught of age must be a harder pill to swallow than for us mere mortals. When you've spent 30 years at the top of your game, nicknamed 'The Body', courted by the fashion world's biggest luminaries and are still landing major advertising campaigns at the age of 47, you can show those young girls a thing or two right?
In pictures: women who refuse to dress their age
There's no denying that the mother of two has still got it going on - indeed, many 20 year-olds would kill to look like her in their skinny jeans - but the classic mistake Elle has made is thinking that having the body of a woman 20 years younger, means she can dress like one. In short, she is a victim of what fashion insiders call 1950 syndrome - 19 from behind, 50 from the front.
She's not alone with this condition. The list of serial offenders is as long as their hemlines are short. Kate Moss is a case in point. It's not that she hasn't got the figure to pull off hot-pants, it's just that at 37, should hot-pants really be your go-to garment? I have visions of Kate going clubbing with her daughter Lila a few years from now, borrowing the embarrassed teenager's latest Topshop acquisitions like the Harry Enfield character who would crow "people think we're sisters" about herself and her dress-a-like daughter.
This doesn't mean women can't be fashionable of course - once you hit your mid-thirties you don't have to shop at Boden - it's just about age-appropriateness. If you are struggling to decipher what your boundaries should be, find yourself an age icon - someone chic in the public eye whose age, life-stage and style roughly mirror yours - and next time you are standing in the changing room in Zara thinking 'am I too old for this?' just imagine if they would wear it. As a 36 year-old mother of two, for me it's Vanessa Paradis for my grown-up self, and Drew Barrymore when I'm feeling rebellious.
What would Drew Barrymore wear?
All Elle needs to do is stop thinking 'What would Willow Smith wear' and maybe take some tips from fellow ageing Supermodels Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer, who both seem to have the concept of growing old gracefully down pat.
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