Age Cannot Wither Her

Carmen Dell'Orefice, the octogenarian goddess of the fashion world, has earned the title of oldest working model. In print her image - captured by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and many others - has graced the pages of the glossiest style bibles from Vanity Fair to Vogue. On the runway she struts her stuff with poise, precision, and just the right amount of age-appropriate smolder. From her first Vogue cover at the age of 15 to her recent catwalk cameos, Dell'Orefice's beauty and talent have neither faded nor flagged. Simply put, she's got It!

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"Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily."

- ARIEL (THE TEMPEST, ACT V, SCENE I)

Joseph Severn. Ariel Riding On A Bat, c. 1830

Unknown English maker. Shell cameo brooch, c. 1840