Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell’Orefice, Ioanna Dedi, Gintare, Bryn English & Karina Gubanova for Vogue Italia June 2013 in Be in Shape Ever Photographer: Greg LotusFashion Editor: Danny SantiagoHair: Thanos SamarasMake-up: Carole LasnierNails: ChampagneRead Full Story

Model Carmen Dell’Orefice looking extremely angular and skinny from February Harper’s Bazaar 1947. Make an evening of it – shoulders bared, long torso shirred to mold like a jersey – with a skirt-over-skirt starting full and low on the hips. Vogue pattern 6012 in American Silk Mills nylon net, frosted blue. With it a golden tassel necklace, gold and carnelian earrings from the Petit Musée. Source and copyright:  Some rights reserved by dovima_is_devine_II Edited with BlogPad ProRead Full Story

The 81-year-old Dell'Orefice first graced the cover of Vogue 66 years ago. At 81 years old, Carmen Dell’Orefice is known for being the world's oldest working model. Her career began at the age of fifteen in 1946, by the following year she was on the cover of “Vogue.” Via: chanelboateng.blogspot.com "Vogue", October 1947 Dell’Orefice first Vogue cover at age 16. Via: pleasurephoto.wordpress.com "Vogue", May 1948 Via: flickr.com "Vogue", November 1948 Via: pinterest.com View Entire List ›Read Full Story

Pictured:  Carmen Dell’Orefice, 81, on the Marimekko runway at New York Fashion Week.Photo: Diane Baros If you’re not familiar with Marimekko they are a classic line of colorful prints produced in Finland since 1951. Jackie Kennedy was a fan and wore their styles. I’ve always said, if it’s good enough for Jackie, it’s good enough for me  For the first time Marimekko showed their fabulous prints at New York Fashion Week. Unfortunately, I had to miss the show because my Mother was ill...Read Full Story

Model Behaviour Carmen dell’Orefice. Lavender’s Blue caught up with the inimitably monocoled and manicured octogenarian supermodel when she recently stayed in a Diane von Furstenberg designed hotel suite in London. Those cheekbones to slice bread with... the thoroughbred acqualine nose... the gunshot grey hooded eyelids... that majestic mane of silver hair... Her legendary beauty has been captured on countless occasions by the great and the good. But in the flesh she is even more...Read Full Story