Carmen Dell' Orefice was born in 1931.

She started in New York in her early years. Since her appearance on the cover of "Vogue" in 1945, her modeling career has lasted for 60 years. Her beauty has appeared in the lenses of almost all the most famous photographers in the world.

Profile: American model Carmen Dell Orefice was born in 1931. She is the oldest model on the runway today. At the age of 79, she recently worked with Lily Cole at London Fashion Week in 2009.

The Shui Ling model walked on the same stage, looking like an iceberg queen. The most frequently used adjectives about her were "flawless" and "elegant".

Edit this paragraph's initial transformation. She appeared on the cover of "Vogue" at the age of 15, but Carmen had to use the money she earned from being a model to pay the rent for her mother.

The ugly duckling turning into a white swan is an endless and always inspiring topic in the fashion circle, and Carmen is no exception.

In the eyes of her mother, who is a dancer, she is just a girl with "ears as big as two doors and a pair of coffin-sized feet."

Her mother initially wanted to continue her dream with Carmen and let her take ballet classes, but she had to give up halfway due to illness.

Carmen's father was a violinist who left home very early in order to pursue his so-called "artistic dream," leaving the poor mother and daughter sometimes so poor that they couldn't even pay the rent.

In 1945, when 79-year-old Carmen Dell'Orefice went to the catwalk to study in a dance class in New York, she met a photographer from "BAZAAR".

He took several photos of Carmen and gave them to the magazine. The magazine's reply to Carmen's mother was, "Your daughter is a polite lady, but unfortunately she is not suitable for photography."

But Carmen’s godfather found a friend who was working at Vogue magazine at the time, and two weeks later, 14-year-old Carmen had the opportunity to meet the legendary editor of Vogue, Diana Villeland.

Carmen recalled: "She ran her hands through my hair and said to me, 'If your neck grows one inch longer, I will send you to Paris.'" This is how her modeling career began.

As a result, the film directed by the famous German photographer Horst appeared on the cover of "Vogue" in 1946. This was also the first time that 15-year-old Carmen appeared on the cover of a top fashion magazine.

Although Carmen's neck failed to "grow another inch," she still moved toward Europe.

There, she worked as a mannequin for Salvador Dali, earning $12 an hour.

When she was still a minor, Carmen could earn $60 a week (equivalent to $1,200 today). She paid the rent owed by her mother, and their life was completely out of poverty. Not only that, she also paid for herself to attend a private school.

And secretly helped his father who had left home.

Edit this paragraph Carmen, the immortal legend on the T-stage, taught young models a good lesson with her queen-like firm eyes and neat, humble and punctual professional attitude.

If there really is a "model dictionary", then "Carmen Dell'Orefice" must be the first entry in the dictionary, and it will be annotated with "60 years of catwalk history."

Carmen's iconic silver hair has a "sharp elegance" in the eyes of fashion people. It is difficult to say that the image creativity of the female editor in "The Devil Wears Prada" has not been affected at all; her height of 1.8 meters

and slender legs can be qualified for any high fashion or ready-to-wear; her menacing blue eyes and angular facial contours can create all the desired effects for photographers.

She has been a favorite of gurus and big brands for decades.

Jean Paul Gaultier once invited her to walk the runway for his Hermès debut, John Galliano needed her to go to Dior, and she also walked in fashion shows such as Moschino, Thierry Mugler, Carmen Marc Valvo, Pierrot, and DKNY.

Appear frequently.

Rolex watches, clothing brand GAP and its secondary line Banana Republic, Arden facial cream, Lancaster anti-aging series, and Target department stores have invited her to endorse, using Carmen's evergreen image in the fashion industry to prove her long-lasting and reliable quality.

The people she has collaborated with are all the most prestigious photographers in the industry. Even the headshot on her senior citizen ID card was taken by Norman Parkinson (a famous British photographer).

Just imagine, compared to a young model with a bad temper, a top-notch old model with 60 years of experience is probably more difficult to take care of.

But quite the opposite was true, as one PR manager who worked with her said in a recent interview: “You never heard any complaints about sore feet or lack of sleep. She always had a smile.

Warm and lively, she surpasses the young model Carmen Dell Olipfest with her neat, humble and punctual professional attitude. "Edit this section. The 79-year-old supermodel has been a fashion darling on the catwalk for 60 years. She is almost 80 years old.

It is still the darling of major brands.

Hermès invited her to showcase new products, Dior asked her to help out, and the Rolex ads she endorsed often appeared in fashion magazines such as Vogue and Bazzar.

When the 79-year-old supermodel Carmen stands with a group of young supermodels who are less than a quarter of her age, her beauty is not inferior.