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"We’re all works of art in progress.”
- Carmen Dell’Orefice
T he World’s Chicest Though Dell’Orefice confessed that "Carmen doesn't think in
Octogenarian, Carmen she’s still “figuring out how to do the terms of her 'career' - she
Dell’Orefice, who was job” despite her 70-plus years working says she's been 'temping for
first discovered by in the industry, the fierce cover proves 69 years' and that she's a
Vogue at the age of 14 (she was paid yet again that she’s still at the top of her 'body for hire' - but what she
$7.50 per hour for her first shoots with game. has done will never happen
the likes of Penn, Horst and Beaton), “I have had more magazine covers in again," stated photographer
and whose career is still going strong the last 25 years than I have had in my David Downton. "Before Kate
past her 84th birthday, remains one of whole elongated career,” Dell’Orefice Moss' mum was born, she was
the most elegant women in the world. told the magazine. “Today I am in
a territory that business considers on the cover of Vogue.
It’s not unusual for a supermodel unmarketable: age and white hair. That's incredible."
to grace the cover of a well-known Slowly, however, I started to own that
magazine, but when said supermodel territory little by little because I stood www.oceanblueMAGAZINE.com 55
is 84 years old - that’s something to up for age.”
talk about. Carmen recently appeared
on the special edition cover of New
You magazine wearing all black, long
gloves, pearls and a perfect pout.
