A few months ago everybody was talking about Advanced Style, a blog dedicated to grown up ladies and gentlemen that dress in style.
I then liked the idea to include the oldies, instead of giving another space to always more young, more perfect, more thin girls and boys.
Growing old not only means to get more kilos on the hips, some wrinkles in the face and a grey head. It also means to grow wise, to know better what we want and stand for, or at least what we don’t want and don’t stand for.
It makes us more secure about ourselves, worrying less about others opinion, which is great, until a certain level and which is definitely displayed in our style.

I am not quite sure until what point my happiness about Advanced Style is influenced by the obvious dependence on vintage style and cloth in nowadays tendencies, but I guess highly. 3rd age people run one of my favourite second hand stores in the world and I often feel inspired of older peoples style, whereby I don’t mean the colourful among the silver foxes but the ones with classical granny image.
Like the cute knitting one by Argentinean artist Liliana Porter.

Although her work might be more of a criticism about us in society doing the same (nonsense) over and over, without looking back; or of the role old people are given; or of the role simple workers are given (check the grannys worker style); who knows?

Growing old also means to loose more and more of your body flexibility. A subject matter that product designer Julie Meunier dived into with her project “Getting Dressed When You Are Getting Old” for the James Dyson Award.
She not only studied the situation of restricted movement of the elderly by literally putting herself in their position; she also considered the aesthetic aspect, investigating origami, pleats and Issey Miyake’s work.
Please find the details and images in the interview that Modabot recently published (the introduction is in German).