Golden Aged

"[i]n every culture, age, like any other important category, is organized
hierarchically. In the West youth is the valued term, the point of reference for defining who is old." (Kathleen Woodward)

The invisibility of older generations is a veritable issue, and yet old age is a gift. In light of the progressive ageing of the worldwide population, I want to celebrate the golden years; particularly in the youth-obsessed world of fashion, I wish to demonstrate that when it comes to style, older might well be wiser...

Photo by Jacoc Aue Sobol

Wrinkles are stories.

“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.”
— Edith Sitwell

Stamaitis Moraitis

Photo from Andrea Frazzetta’s photo-essay ‘The Island Where People Forget To Die’ in The New York Times. On the Turkish island of Ikaria, people are reaching the age of 90 at two and a half times the rate Americans do, with about a quarter the rate of dementia.