Hasta La Ideas

‘I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures,’ she explains in the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar. ‘I knew I had to get to New York to get to Africa.’

And with a career spanning almost five decades and well into her mid-60s, she posed for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s 2008 lookbook.

‘I think I was 64 at the time and they were 22. I thought that was fantastically hip. I did it, and they paid me in clothes, which is great,’ she notes, showing off the jeans and workmans shirt she’s wearing – both from the Row.

Adds Ashley, ‘She stays true to herself. I think that’s what’s reflected in her photographs,’ says Ashley, to which M-K adds – ‘She took a chance on a brand that no one knew just because she liked it. We think of her as our fairy godmother.’

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