F A S H I O N // Wonder woman- Ingmari Lamy

I was so impressed last week when I came across & Other Stories new campaign shots. It's rare for fashion brands to use older models, but choosing 65 year old model Ingmari Lamy is arguably the best decision they've ever made. I spend way too much of my time worrying about making the most of my youth, fretting that I only have so much time left until I can no longer do things I love.
One of the biggest worries for me though, is feeling as though I can no longer dress the way I want as I get older. I don't know about any of you but I feel like we're rarely told about later life. We're taught about life immediately after education *note- we're taught how shit hard it is to get a job, and no matter how hard we work we probably won't ever fulfil our dreams.. Thank you for the encouragement society* We're taught about how to live now, how our twenties are the best years of our lives, then you hit your thirties and life flies by and then we regret everything. Brilliant. 
People glide into our lives telling us to make the most of our wrinkle free skin and high metabolisms whilst we have them, but can I please ask- what the hell is wrong with a few age spots and a bit of weight gain? Who's to say I won't enjoy my body as I get older? Our looks change and our bodies slow down, but why is that such an awful thing?

Sometimes I feel we're given the impression that we have to give up our hopes and dreams if we don't fulfil them by the age of 35. And I don't want to change my hair or stop wearing the clothes I love. I sometimes wake up feeling panicked despite still being in my early twenties- panicked that I don't have enough time left to achieve everything I want to. It's a load of bullshit really, and I'm angry that so many other young people feel the same way.
Maybe if we all took a moment to just breathe every now and then instead of trying to do everything at once, maybe we wouldn't need to worry so much. 

& Other Stories have given me hope that ageing doesn't mean we loose our looks or sense of style. Ingmari looks ten times better than I do now in their new collection- a collection may I add, marketed at women from their late teens onwards... Not many designs look incredible on both a twenty year old and a sixty year old. Perhaps it's a certain confidence and sense of self that comes with age. If so, here's to getting older!