You may have seen the pictures of Olivia Colman, the actress who played Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, walking the Miu Miu runway during Milan fashion week earlier this month.
Things to note about this: Colman is 52, not model sample size, her hair is greying and she was wearing a black leather blazer and pencil skirt, with a V-neck sweater and backless loafers.
Miuccia Prada, who designs Miu Miu, likes to use ‘real’ older women in her runway shows – last year it was 58-year-old actress Gillian Anderson – but the surprise was that she put a normal-sized, normal-looking, 50-plus
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