But something incredibly simple had been missing from that catalog: gray hair.

It took Batsehva’s fall 2024 show on February 13 to make me fully realize it.

Smile lines framed lips painted in bright colors.

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Winged eyeliner perched atop and between crow’s-feet.

Andgray hairmade a multitude of cameos 14 to be exact.

Another’s tightly coiled hair served as the perfect canvas for her blended mixture of charcoal and silver tones.

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Red carpet events feel more baby-faced than ever, regardless of the average age of the attendees.

Even my dentist is offeringBotoxthese days (and not for jaw tension).

For context, I’m 29.

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That’s a sticky age when it comes to self-image and aging.

Or the fact that my dark hair is likely going to be streaked with white sooner rather than later.

Despite what internet youths will tell me, I’m still very young.

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What Batsheva said at the show last night is that older women are worthy.

That in and of itself seems to be Hay’s motivation for casting the show this way.

We told the hair team to amp up each womans hair as it was.

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It was truly the most fun backstage I have ever had.

(It did successfully sell the brand to me, though.

I went poking through Batsheva’s website right after seeing this show.

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Why does an older cast of runway models have to be a rare one?

As Hay says, Fashion doesnt have to be mean and exclusionary.

Clearly, when it’s not, the results speak for themselves.

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