Ageless beauties
It sounds like a cliché, but there really is something special about seeing old timers bring alive the memories of the naïve days of the past when fashion models with great bone structure, excellent posture and to-die-for legs took the ramp by storm. Recently Chanel’s show opened with Stella Tennant, a 40-year-old model with whom
Lagerfeld has a longstanding friendship, and closed with 46-year-old Kristen McMenamy wearing a wedding dress. In India, Mehr Jessia is known to walk for friends like Tarun Tahiliani, Nandita Mahtani; supermodel Sheetal Malhar closed the show for Valaya in 2010; Madhu Sapre, Ruchi Malhotra and Simar Duggal too lit up the ramp for Madhu Jain and Milind Soman. Age has failed to take anything away from these gorgeous goddesses, who have aged gracefully.
Designer Madhu Jain is great friends with Madhu Sapre and has found her muse in Ruchi Malhotra, who, says Madhu, is difficult to catch hold of, but once you drag her out of hibernation, it is worth the effort. She says, “When fashion was evolving in India, designers as well as models were growing together. It is the comfort level from those days that makes me want to have them for my show.”
According to Nida Mahmood, the queen of quirk, it is more like a tribute to those, who once blazed the ramp with their charisma and who still look stunning. “It is a way to show them that we have not forgotten them. After all they were models when modelling was not considered a profession. These models were supermodels in the true sense,” she quips.
Beauty has no age or time limit. Leela Naidu and Maharani Gayatri Devi were eternal beauties. They needed no facelift or Botox. Same is the case with these models. Veruschka von Lehndorff, the sexy ramp-star of the 60s made a grand comeback at the London Fashion Week 2010 at the age of 71. She looked wonderful and not everyday do we get to see this amount of confidence.
“Beauty is not about the way one looks, but it is the mirror of your internal persona. I have been in the fashion scene for the past 24 years and I have found the older generation of models are not just the best, but a perfect combination of beauty, brains and a beautiful heart. They are versatile and can carry off anything with panache,” adds Madhu.
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