The super-top models on the catwalk at 50: too beautiful to be ... normal!
The Donatella Versace Spring Summer 2018 fashion show was the most photographed, talked about and shared event of Milan Fashion Week. Because of the clothes, will you say? -top of the 90s most loved by Gianni Versace. It is to him that his sister Donatella wanted to dedicate a real living tribute.
Imagine the lights go out on the catwalk, and then turn on again suddenly and ... boom! Here they appear as Greek goddesses, beautiful and statuesque in their gilded dresses with slits that make a twenty year old pale, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni and Helena Christensen are motionless on pedestals, like living works of art, and in the background Geroge Michael sings Freedom, and he is already a legend.
But "freedom" means "freedom", and perhaps on this little word, once the limelight is turned off and the show is over, it will be worth reflecting ...
The super-tops were beautiful, stupendous, but it will be better to reiterate a simple concept: they are pure exceptions, not at all of the rule! They are no better than anyone because they managed to keep themselves as crystallized and unchanged at the age of fifty. Freedom, in fact, is the key word, and that every over-fifty can feel free to age as they want!
Gianni Versace had not aimed and supported only these models who know no imperfections, quite the opposite. He had also loved the absent ones very much: Linda Evangelista, whom gossip magazines accuse of being fattened and embossed, or Stephanie Seymour, who after four children does not she has more of the line than she used to be, and that certainly doesn't mean that she has stopped having faith in herself, as our curvy model suggests in her tips ...
Christy Turlington wasn't there either, because at some point it became more important for her to graduate and devote herself to humanitarian and social issues (not that it's a better choice, let's repeat it again: freedom is the key word!). And Karen Mulder was also missing, who the fashion world has always suffered like violence, to the point of attempting suicide.
A tribute like Donatella Versace's is certainly iconic, but it shouldn't lead us to believe that a woman must never grow old to be beautiful! Naomi, Cindy, Claudia, Carla and Helena represent a very rare exception, and on stage on that catwalk the exception was paraded, not the norm. Normality, however, can be just as beautiful, in a thousand different ways: to define it is precisely that freedom of choice that makes us feel good, gives us self-esteem and makes us accept ourselves as we are.
Beauty is first of all authenticity. So, hats off to the super-tops, amazing beyond human imagination in the nineties as today: but that they remain only an exception, after all, we don't mind that much.
