Hoorah for older women as icons of beauty

I'm inordinately pleased that 'old ladies' are no longer expected to be invisibleThe Italian actress Isabella Rossellini is, at 60, the new face of Bulgari handbags. One ought to be used now to seeing older women being celebrated – and paid – as archetypes of beauty. Sophia Loren's been at it for years, Twiggy was credited with reviving Marks & Spencer when she started appearing in their advertisements, and the only cavil people really have with Madonna is that she will insist on behaving as...

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