Three marriages and two bankruptcies. Why is Carmen, an 89-year-old supermodel, still a fashion darling?

She is the oldest supermodel in the world. Fate gave her beauty, joy, pain and sadness, but she made herself a legend. She is American supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice.

In the fashion show of She Guanghu held in February, 2020, the long-lost world supermodel Carmen once again appeared in front of the public, stunning the audience.

At the age of 89, her hair is gray, she walks on the runway and wears a red printed dress, still elegant and fashionable.

As the longest model on the runway, the world's oldest supermodel is still active in the fashion world in her eighties.

In 2000, he showed new clothes for Dior, the world's top brand;

In 2004, she became the finale model of Jean-Paul Gaultier's new exhibition;

In 2009, 78-year-old supermodel Carmen surprised the audience by performing "Glory of the Queen" in front of 2,000 spectators at the "One Thousand and Two Nights" high fashion conference of the National Sports Center.

20 10, the new supermodel lily cole walked on the same stage at London Fashion Week;

In 20 13, 82-year-old Carmen came out at the finale of Paris Fashion Week, full of domineering;

20 17, Victoria's Secret Show came to China for the first time. Under the background of many models in their twenties, 86-year-old Carmen gained countless eyeballs: 1.8 meters in height, slender legs, formidable blue eyes, angular facial contour and elegant and confident temperament, which made her instantly become the focus of the scene.

For decades, she has also been the darling of masters and big brands. Dior, Hermes, Rolex watches, clothing brands GAP, Banana Republic, Ya Dun Cream, Lancaster Anti-aging Series, Target Department Store and many other international brands are competing to invite them to endorse or show new products.

She is as noble as the iceberg queen, the "silver fox" of Leng Yan. She exudes fierce elegance and unique noble temperament, which you will never forget when you look at her.

Today, Carmen, who is nearly 90 years old, is still active on the runway, although she has been injured, had knee surgery, wore hearing AIDS and had her uterus removed ... She is an international supermodel with equal authority and reputation, a darling of fashion circles and a court figure.

Carmen said in an interview with the media: "I never have to' face' aging. This happens naturally. When a woman smiles, she must look younger than her age. In fact, I like myself better than when I was young. "

Marguerite duras wrote at the beginning of Lover: "When you were young, you were beautiful and surrounded by many suitors, but I liked your vicissitudes better than then."

Carmen's life is the best interpretation of this sentence.

193 1 year, Carmen was born in new york, USA, of Hungarian-Italian mixed blood. My father is a second-rate violinist. In order to pursue his artistic dream, he abandoned his wife and daughter, leaving Carmen and his mother alone. After his father left home, his mother couldn't even pay the rent, and Carmen was sometimes sent to an orphanage to live.

Carmen's mother is a poor ballerina. In order to fulfill her dream of dancing, she wanted Carmen to study ballet, but Carmen finally had to give up ballet because of illness. She said, "That was my first death."

Fate closed a door for her, but it also opened a window for her.

/kloc-When she was 0/4 years old, she was lucky enough to meet Diana, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue. Diana brushed Carmen's hair with her hand and said, "If your neck grows an inch longer, I will send you to Paris, but … do you think you are beautiful?" Unexpectedly, Carmen confidently replied, "No one can deny my beauty!"

This sentence touched Diana. 15-year-old Carmen became the youngest cover girl of Vogue with her confidence and unique charm.

She began to make money by taking magazine photos and mannequins. She used the money she earned to pay off the arrears of rent for her mother, paid for her own private school, and secretly subsidized her father who ran away from home.

In order to save bus money, she wears roller skates to work; When I see beautiful clothes, I go home and sew them on old clothes and blankets.

Perhaps it was because of childhood poverty that Carmen was unforgettable, or maybe it was a habit formed at that time. Although Carmen in front of the runway has always been well dressed, she has always been frugal in her life.

When going to Paris for the catwalk, Carmen will also bring her own sewing machine to sew clothes for various occasions. She will buy some cheap blankets from charity shops to make a coat and wear ornaments worth $28. Her most commonly used skin care product is an ordinary ointment developed by veterinarians to wipe the horse's skin. "It feels similar to many famous cosmetics, but it only costs $3.99 a year," she said proudly.

Someone once criticized her parents for being very unqualified. Carmen didn't complain negatively, but was tolerant, grateful and understanding. "I'm not interested in people's prejudices," she said. My mother is very strict, but she is also very careful and hardworking. She is smarter than most women today. She taught me how to cook, how to wallpaper, how to sew, how to be careful ... As for my father, I want to say that he appeared when I needed him. "

The family she came from gave her a comfortable embrace, but after many years, when she became a mother herself, the family still couldn't give her a warm embrace.

Carmen and her daughter Laura have alienated life in a subtle way.

Laura, the daughter of a 60-year-old psychologist, said of her mother Carmen: "My mother always tells me' you have your own beauty', but how can I believe it? Why don't I have her slender legs and elegant figure? " Carmen also admitted: "Whenever someone praises me, Laura feels dwarfed."

Laura is sensitive and inferior in front of her excellent mother. Perhaps because she didn't want her daughter to live in pressure and pain all the time, Carmen chose to alienate her, look at her from a distance and bear the pain of being away from her alone: alienating you is my way to protect you and my expression of love for you.

For Carmen, affection is at arm's length, but she can't embrace it. But Carmen never insisted, but stood not far away and let it exist without sorrow or joy.

Carmen went through three marriages, all of which ended in failure.

/kloc-When she was 0/6 years old, Carmen met her first husband. This man, who is 10 years older than her, not only cheated Carmen of several horse races and most of the catwalk payment, but also caused her to have many miscarriages. Nevertheless, Carmen married her partner at the age of 2 1 and gave birth to her daughter Laura at the age of 22. But this marriage only lasted for three years.

Carmen's third husband, an architect, not only took drugs, but also made Carmen take drugs. Finally, Carmen had no choice but to leave.

Although all three marriages hurt Carmen, after breaking up, Carmen never accused several ex-husbands, or even said that they were not.

She fell in love passionately, stopped her loss in time after the injury, turned around smartly and started a new life.

So that when she was in her 70s, a reporter asked Carmen if love was still important to her. Carmen asked, "Is breathing important to you?"

For Carmen, love and life are equal.

Liang Shiqiu said, "Go, I won't see you off. Come, rain or shine, I'll pick you up. " This is probably the feeling of Carmen's love She loves every paragraph without reservation. Although she didn't get a happy ending in the end, she never complained negatively and never forced her to stay.

The setbacks in marriage could not sink Carmen, and her investment went bankrupt twice. We can't make her bow.

In his fifties, Carmen failed to invest in stocks and almost lost all her savings. In order to make a living, she even had to auction her collection of classic photos taken from 1940s to 1980s.

In 2008, at the age of 77, she became the victim of Madoff's financial fraud that attracted worldwide attention. She invested all her money in the fund recommended by her friend, and all her money was gone overnight. This is the second time in her life that she has lost all her savings.

Carmen's life, fate has given her beauty, poverty, honor, wealth, opportunity, hardship, misfortune and sadness at the same time, but she did not think highly of herself because of beauty, wealth and honor, nor was she devastated because of suffering, misfortune and sadness.

The teenager was abandoned by his father, gave up ballet due to illness, experienced three failed marriages and went bankrupt twice. In the face of fate's repeated shots, she has no strength to fight back and has never been knocked down. She just keeps trying to be her best, calm and not ashamed.

Perhaps it is because of vicissitudes of life and changes in temperature that Carmen always has a contradictory but harmonious aesthetic feeling. She is gentle as water and firm as a rock; There is the warmth of fire and the cold of frost; She is confident, but humble; She is as luxurious as a diamond and lives frugally.

Carmen wrote a legend all her life. As the famous fashion photographer Tim Peterson once commented on Carmen, "She is not only a supermodel, but also a celebrity and idol."

The long river of years can take everything away, but she has always been here and will always be Carmen.