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Seniors on the Catwalk (Again) Edit
Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2009


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Seniors on the Catwalk (Again)
Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2009
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Seniors on the Catwalk (Again) - Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2009 (GALLERY)
Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2009
Published: Jul 1, 08
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Casting senior citizen models to walk the runway is indeed becoming a trend.  Anne Demeulemeester is the third designer, after Etro and Yohji Yamamoto to have used elders to model her collection.

The Spring 2009 Collection of the Belgian designer highlighted the art of aging gracefully. The show started with young, angst-smeared models wearing dark-coloured clothes strutting the garden of Université Pierre et Marie Curie.  After a few moments of seeing young, rigid bodies, models that looked like they could have been grandparents, wearing Demeulemeester’s light-coloured ensembles, appeared on the catwalk. 

Through her latest collection, Ann Demeulemeester has been successful in painting the picture of the embracement of growing old and not to the battle against it it (and to purchase her clothes too!).

Check out more seniors on the runway:

Seniors on the Catwalk - Yohji Yamamoto’s Paris Runway (GALLERY)

This seems to be the season of unlikely runway models. Recently, Vivienne Westwood caused an uproar when she sent out beefy, tough-looking Roma gypsies on the Milan catwalks to model her 2009 menswear.… [More]



 

 

References:  men.style, fashionwiredaily

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Jeremy Gutsche on Jul 1, 08  1,655 Trends   2,594 Comments
Wow, this is really interesting! Nice find, Jelalyn.
Jeremy Gutsche on Jul 1, 08  1,655 Trends   2,594 Comments 0
Favorited by Jeremy Gutsche on Jul 2, 08

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