Pretty past it? Interrogating the post-feminist makeover of ageing, style, and fashion

From the “Leading Ladies” advertising campaign for UK high-street stalwart Marks and Spencer, to Charlotte Rampling becoming the face of NARS cosmetics at sixty-eight in 2014, and the delight that meets select older women stars such as Helen Mirren on the red carpet in the women’s magazine market, it appears that the fashion, beauty and celebrity industries of late have opened their arms to embrace stylish “women of a certain age” to an...