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The Queen may have recently turned 95, but she’s not the only great-grandmother who inspires us
6 June 2021 • 6:00am
‘It’s women doing
their own thing with
a punk attitude: “This
is what we look like,
this is what we wear,
get over it”’
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Like so many of us who were counting down the minutes until the pub reopened and frantically refreshing the bookings pages of the restaurants we’d been missing, model Daphne Selfe was super-giddy at the prospect of life beyond her own four walls. ‘I couldn’t wait to get out there,’ she says.
On her post-pandemic hit list is a visit to the buzzy Brasserie Zédel in Piccadilly, a tour of ‘whatever is new’ at the Royal Acade - my, and a much-needed trip to the cinema. Then there are catch-ups with friends, a family reunion or two, and the matter of a trip to the seaside to arrange. More than any - thing, Daphne has been desperate to get back to her day job, which involves modelling for fashion
Alyson Walsh launched the website That’s Not My Age in 2008, and has since built the style-centric site into a platform that boasts a shoppable component, as well as a podcast. Here, the journalist, author and age-positivity advocate tells us more about her fashion influences, wardrobe favourites, and why it’s never to late to express yourself through dressing.
What’s your earliest style memory?
As a teenager, I was into music rather than fashion. It was all very DIY in the 1970s and often unintentionally shoddy. I wore a lot of second-hand clothes and army surplus pieces. I was still at school when punk exploded and a bit too young and uncool to get fully behind the movement, but it was a huge influence. My younger brother and I used to buy NME New Musical Express every week, and I’ve always been a bit of a tomboy so a lot of my icons were men. I was into bands like The Clash and Joy Division, and the women I admired were Debbie Harry and Patti Smith artists who appr
Channel 4 will hand over its airwaves to seven influential women (Lewis Whyld/PA)
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Channel 4 will hand over its airwaves to seven influential women, from scientists to food poverty campaigners, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Figures including Kate Bingham, former chairwoman of the UK vaccine taskforce, and matron May Parsons, the first person to administer a Covid-19 vaccine to a patient outside of clinical trials, will feature as continuity announcers throughout the day.
Increasingly urbanized: Changing look of west end of Greenwich draws concerns
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A proposal for 44 residential units at 581 W. Putnam Ave. is raising concerns about community character and overdevelopment on the west side of Greenwich.Contributed / Artist’s rendering
GREENWICH As a developer puts forward a plan for a large modern apartment building on the west side of Greenwich, area residents are feeling apprehensive about the potential for overdevelopment and a loss of community character.
The building plan for 44 residential units in the West Putnam Avenue corridor is sparking criticism, with some saying that the area is taking on the look of a city, and a not particularly attractive one. Some 30 emailed comments and letters have been submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission over the proposal, and many community residents have been speaking out in recent weeks with their concerns about the changing nature of the west end of town.