Advanced Style Video: Live From London

My dad and I met beautiful 89 year old Regine today, while walking around Chelsea. Dad has been taking part in the photo hunting and was a great assistant today, in fact he took the great clip above. Regine let me know that elders, as opposed to having one foot in the grave, are up coming. I full-heartedly agree, don't you?

Dressed Up at Spitalfields Market

[Photos and Text Ari Seth Cohen]

My mom and I met this extraordinary 96 year old gentleman while shopping at Spitalfields flea market. He told us that he dresses up everyday and that many people take his photo. He thanked us and went on his way. He is the best dressed fellow I have seen in London so far!

Gitte Lee: Once A Model Always A Model

[Photos and Text Ari Seth Cohen

I came across this gorgeous woman while shooting for Selfridges today and I couldn't stop snapping away. Her name is Gitte Lee, a former Danish model, and she was one of the most charming and elegant women I have ever met.

On another note, Maayan and I are having a great time reading all of your responses to our questions, so I thought I'd post it again below!
What's your age?
Male or female?
Where do you spend most of your time?
What are your hobbies?
What sort of work do you do?
What is your favorite era of style?

Send your submissions (and feel free to send pictures!) to:
advancedstyleinfo@gmail.com

Our Better Half's in Londontown

As many of you know, our photographer Ari Seth Cohen is currently in London doing some scouting for the Advanced Style project with Selfridges. If we're lucky he'll get some pics of the ladies and gents on the "To-Do List" I gave him... Who doesn't want some style tips from the Queen!?

While Ari's away I'll be holding down the fort and posting tips from our favorite Advanced Style characters. Each Monday we'll take on a new topic and you'll get to hear what Debra, Jenny, MaryAnn, Ilona (and more!) have to say about dressing up while on the road, what bag to carry, skincare, etc...

In the mean time, we'd love to hear more about our readers.
It will help us shape what sort of posts we do during our collective summer vacation...

What's your age?
Male or female?
Where do you spend most of your time?
What are your hobbies?
What sort of work do you do?
What is your favorite era of style?

Send your submissions (and feel free to send pictures!) to:
advancedstyleinfo@gmail.com

I'll be here at my computer, in a one-piece and a headscarf...
xo
Maayan

Advanced Style In London: Shopping at Selfridges

I arrived in London for my project with Selfridges and I'm having a wonderful time! This lady was coming out of the store with her grandchildren when I asked if I could take her photo.

Readers Respect Their Elders!

[Text: Maayan Zilberman, Photos: reader submission]

We're always excited when readers send us their photos inspired by the men and women on our site. But it's especially fun to see people incorporating advice and style tips into their lifestyle...

I'm especially touched by this display of creativity and sisterhood, on the heels of seeing the new Sex and the City movie and feeling totally disconnected from a group of women so insistent on looking younger than they are.

This weekend we got a special treat, these four sisters wrote in from Latvia:

"I like what you and your soul-mates are doing on Advanced Style! Actually, we all love it. We are 4 sisters - Agnese, Elza, Marta & Gerda – we are from Riga, Latvia. One of us (Gerda) is studying fashion design and accidentally came upon your blogspot. On the “sisters event” - that is one day a month, when we all meet and spend time together doing whatever we have decided to - we somehow started to talk about how we will act when we will be older and so on… And Gerda showed us this page as an example for cool mature people – that style is not the privilege of youth, but it blossom out by and by. And your blogspot was a proof to our believing that there is no time limitation for being creative, stylish, inspiring and even totally crazy! We felt in love with the idea and the way how you are doing this – we liked it so much, that we even picked up our prototypes whom we would like to bear a resemblance (we called this “wanna be old” choice) after years! It is so nice to see that woman or man is still a Woman and Man, no matter how old is she/he, instead of becoming just an oldster. At least in Latvia there are very rare old and stylish people…L

We liked this so much, that we promised to each other never to loose Woman in us and we kept some of your blogspot pictures we choose as “wanna be old” to look at them after some years and compare with ourselves. We even did a photo session where we tried to capture the feeling of persons we were inspired by And we also decided to create our own blogspot because we all have something to say to world, but we never did that in public. So, we will now!
We hope that after some decades we won’t loose our femininity, smile and positive craziness!
Thank you for a lot of inspiration, ideas and nice pictures where to regale our eyes! We wish you good luck and many crazy ideas to realize!
Greetings also to Hilda Longinotti, Jenny Hirschowitz and Marylin Sokol – I hope you will recognize yourselves as our “wanna be old” prototypes in our blogspot..."

Don't you love this letter?!

Here are some of the ladies who inspired the sisters...

Debra in Red

Debra has been busy modeling the past few days, but she made some time to stop by with Stan, her partner in crime.She wanted to show me her new haircut and I thought I should take a few photos of her since I'll be off to England in a few days. Debra bought everything she is wearing from thrift stores including Stan's great leather vest. She believes that frugality is fun and that personal style and creativity are healing. She loves to share her secrets on how to eat healthy and have fun. Feel free to contact her at Debrathenutritionista@gmail.com and check out her very own page on Advanced Style!