When I see these women on red carpets, I can't help but wonder.......
I was just reading about how Demi Moore is a fashion icon at 61.
She’s been wearing clothes like crazy at the Cannes Film Festival this week, where she’s promoting a feminist horror movie that frankly, I can’t wait to see. In it, she injects a 'substance' - the movie’s called The Substance - that releases a younger version of herself. Reborn Demi is played by Margaret Qualley, who is the literal daughter of Andie MacDowell. It’s many layers of Hollywood irony, considering the injections that the town runs off, and that Demi looks to be a similar age to one of her own three daughters, but life is stranger than fiction, etc.
I was just reading about how Sienna Miller is a fashion icon at 42.
Of course, Miller has always been very, very good at wearing clothes. Demi once wore bike shorts to the Oscars (look it up, you’re welcome), but Sienna would never. She’s brought her eternal cool to Cannes to promote her new western, which stars Kevin Costner and his white hair. His style did not earn comment, but Sienna looked impeccably Sienna-ish even in the barrel-jeans micro-trend that is universally agreed to be unwearable. Unless you’re her, and you wear them with no shirt and a sharply tailored cropped jacket and maybe I’m making up fashion words.
I was just reading about how Cate Blanchett is a style icon at 55.
It’s not really possible to find the right made-up fashion words for how wondrous Cate Blanchett looks at Cannes, where, of course, she received a standing ovation for Rumours, a dark comedy about incompetent world leaders. The clapping went on for four minutes and the praise for her 'looks' - a strapless body-hugging sheath by Jean Paul Gaultier, slim-line leather pants, a berry-printed structured jacket, a gold Louis Vuitton and etc - will go on longer, because if wearing clothes was the Oscars, she’d never not win.
All of these women are being held up as evidence that style 'doesn’t have a sell-by date'. That you can look edgy and fashionable and take 'risks' with your look after 40, 50, 60… and be celebrated for it. Because these women do, and are.
But there’s a glitch in this you go-lady, good-news age story…………READ MORE
The Dating Pool Has Wee In It
Grown-up dating is a bit like the middle aisle at Aldi - full of surprises, a few hidden gems and a whole lot of sh*t you don't need.
Generation X are getting around the apps and although they didn't exist when we were young, we're fast learners, resilient as hell and our bullshit detectors are unparalleled. So, what could possibly go wrong? Cathrine Mahoney knows. She's been post-divorce dating for almost a decade and has the stories to match.
Like the time the man she'd been walking past at the park for months finally matched with her on Bumble, the time the guy asked if he could bring his "bull", and what happened when she slid into celebrity dating app Raya and everyone was famous (spoiler alert: THE GUY FROM OUTLANDER)
If you're dating, thinking about dating or just keen to perve into the world of your single friends...
THE SCROLL
How does a woman who has been stalked by another woman feel about Baby Reindeer and “the real Martha” becoming a celebrity?
Nobody celebrates her birthday like the 50yo woman who’s feeling good about how she looks
In 1985, Joan Rivers asked Oprah a question. Three years later, she wheeled out a wagon of fat.
Leigh Campbell’s 3 favourite night creams (starting from $29)
MID STYLE INSPO: DENIM MAXI SKIRTS
The hard-working older sister of the denim mini, the denim maxi is more versatile that you might think. It looks particularly good with a shirt but also works with a t-shirt and jacket or a knit.
The best shoes to wear with it are trainers or low heels like a kitten or slingback.
WATCH OUT: Make sure you do a proper Walk Test before you buy. Try it on and leave the change room to go for a little stroll (or around your house if you’ve ordered online) to confirm that you can actually walk. Denim maxis need either a slit up the front or some stretch otherwise you will feel hobbled and nobody has time for that shit.
ASOS has some good options here
And Kmart has this skirt for the alarming price of $7
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