Emma Soames on fashion and style for the older generation
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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PDF My cup of sartorial joy brims over with the discovery of Ari Cohen's blog, Advanced Style, which chronicles the style of the chicest, wackiest and best dressed of America's older generation. Here you will find inspiration from vintage style mavens, ranging from 93-year-old model Mimi Weddell, to a dude from Seattle whose fine legs are displayed in stockings and who is topped off with a blazer and cap. Then there's fabric designer Elizabeth Sweetheart, who dresses entirely in green - a different outfit every day. She was recently profiled in New York magazine where she explained the genesis of her eccentric but bizarrely successful look. "I began wearing green nail varnish and it just spread all over me."
Cohen, 27, started the blog last summer. He works in the bookstore at the New Museum but originally came from Seattle where his best friend was his grandmother. "I adored my grandparents. Older people's style has evolved and they don't mind what other people think so much. They just aren't so self-conscious." He says that when he moved to New York last May he noticed immediately how vibrant and stylish older people in the city were, and wanted to start a project to bring that into focus.
The site is gathering momentum along with a mood of greater acceptance and respect for the older practitioners of style consciousness. "People have started to notice older people more," explains Cohen. "You can learn so much from the way an old person wears a coat that they have had for ever with maybe a hat, for instance - these are the last people around who know how to dress formally and they have a confidence about them that younger people just don't have."
Recent trends spotted on the site include bright red lipstick and huge dark glasses - neither of which are age specific but do look fabulous on the denizens of Advanced Style. There's no doubt that when the fat lady finally starts singing, she will do so in Balenciaga, with a slash of red lipstick and possibly some kid gloves taken out of a closet and smelling of the lavender in which they were for decades preserved.
? Emma Soames is editor-at-large of Saga magazine.
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'People used to say I looked like Steve Martin. I met him once - he didn't see it'
PrintEmailPDF Michael Craig-Martin, artist
What got you started?
Discovering modern art through a schoolteacher when I was about 12. It was the 1950s, and modern art was still a secret - I thought I'd stumbled upon a magic world.
What was your big breakthrough?
Getting into Yale art school. I happened to be there at the school's golden moment, when it had some fantastically good students - Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Chuck Close.
Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?
Personal life. You can't be an artist without having an unusually irritating level of self-absorption.
Why do some people have such difficulties with conceptual art?
In order to feel really comfortable with art, you have to gain familiarity with it. People might go to Tate Modern and be sceptical in the first room or two, but by the third room they've found something that captures their imagination. And by the fourth room, they've found four things.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Just keeping going. You have to learn to persist in the times when things are not going well, in the hope that some day they will.
How does Britain's art scene compare with America's?
Britain's art world is amazingly active, considering its size. It sits in a very odd position between Europe and America, and negotiates a strange path of its own.
Complete this sentence: At heart I'm just a frustrated ...
Layabout. I'm essentially a very lazy person.
Which other living artist do you most admire?
Too many to say. Of my own generation, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra.
In the movie of your life, who plays you?
People used to say I looked like Steve Martin. But I met him once, and I don't think he saw any similarity.
What work of art would you most like to own?
Seurat's Bathers at Asni�res, for its wonderful combination of modesty and grandeur.
What's the worst thing anyone's ever said about your work?
One review of an early show called it a "waste of a beautiful gallery".
Is there anything about your career you regret?
No. Certainly not the years I spent teaching. Many of my students - Damien Hirst, Gary Hume - have gone on to do well. That's a very nice reward.
In short
Born: Dublin, 1941
Career: Exhibited conceptual work An Oak Tree in 1974. Taught at Goldsmiths. Currently co-curating the exhibition This Is Sculpture at Tate Liverpool (0151-702 7400).
High point: "My 2006 show Signs of Life at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. Everything just seemed to work."
Low point: "Feeling, at about 40, that I hadn't come close to achieving what I'd hoped to."
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