Previous job: Academic

"Never mind Cara, Gigi and Karlie -today's hottest models are in their 40s, 50s, and beyond". Louisa Pritchard reports on the kickass women putting a one-overlooked generation back on the fashion map...

Hello Silver Sirens...

Alex B.

Began modelling at: 46

Previous job: Academic

She says: "I am not surprised that older models can find work - it just has to be so, given the changes in demographics - although I believe we still have a long way to go"

Louisa Pritchard, Stella Magazine

Alex, now 67, has walked for Rick Owens SS25 at ParisFashionWeek. In the words of Angus Munro, casting director, the models who walk for Rick Owens "have to have a reverence to them. They have to have sophistication, they have to have a frailty..."

Alex seems to have all of this and more.