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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/style/instagram-grandmas.htmlThe Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram
The subversive cadre of women over 60 prove that old is not what it used to be.
By Ruth La Ferla
June 20, 2018
(photo of Lyn Slater, a fashion model, 64, @iconaccidental)
Im not 20. I dont want to be 20, but Im really freaking cool. Thats what I think about when Im posting a photo.
Photographed with a hip thrust forward to show off her Margiela apron dress and modishly frayed jeans, Lyn Slater projects a kind of swagger pretty rare among her peers. A professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University, with hyper-chic side gigs as a model and blogger, she is known to a wider public as an Instagram idol.
Sure, shes 64, a time when some women her age are feeling pressed to close up shop. But if you are Ms. Slater, thats not going to happen.
On Accidental Icon, her influential Instagram account, she tends to vamp in an eye-catching mash-up of Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto and consignment store finds. Her following, hundreds of thousands strong, skews young, she said, and is responsive to her sass.
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The Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram (Original Post)
saidsimplesimon
Jun 2018
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RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)1. I Love this
a positive path for aging women (like me)!
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)2. I am past 65.
This was a light story to escape all the ugly actions going on. She is a lovely woman.
RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)3. I am past 55
she is a lovely woman.... with a great attitude that I hope to duplicate.