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My name is Ari Seth Cohen. I roam the streets of New York looking for the most stylish and creative older folks. Respect your elders and let these ladies and gents teach you a thing or two about living life to the fullest. Advanced Style offers proof from the wise and silver-haired set that personal style advances with age.
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Hi Ari,
love your sentiment and love your sense of style. Good on you - hero!!
Thank you and all your people, Ari. Come visit Oaxaca, Mexico and see advanced style ladies and men across cultures. Today, surrounded by ladies in gorgeous rebozos because the opera house is COLD, we saw Joyce Carpati on the screen of the Met HD transmission of Maria Stuarda! Beautiful day!
Bless you, Ari-finally fashion inspiration that isn't steeped in convention for women over 50. Move over Betsy Johnson and Vivian Westwood -Advance is here! Magge McCann, age 64
Hi Ari,
I think your blog is fantastic!! I just wanted to let you know that I was writing an article myself on age and style on my blog and came across yours through a friend. I have mentioned you, your blog and documentary in my blog as I thought it was so inspiring! Feel free to check it out when you have time, it is:
http://myfashionatesoul.wordpress.com
and keep it coming loving the style and fashion!!
Many thanks Pia
I am so glad I found you and I will get your book. I'm doing a plus size blog for women over 50 called stylingwithsusieblog.com. It's so nice to find others who believe you can be stylish at any age.
Hi Ari,
Believe it or not, my name is Ari also. I just launched a new line of scarves and featured my beautiful 84 year old mother (former model). She was our January model. Check her out at www.izzistyle.com.
Good for you and your blog!
Ari Weindling
wonderful blog, beautiful photos!
Wednesday (Feb. 6th) was my 61st B-day. I'm so delighted to have found your Blog.
I have been pondering retirement and, perhaps, retiring my Blog. Do I still have something of interest to say?
Yes, yes and yes. Thank you, Ari.
Dear Ari. I love your blog. It is incredibly freeing to finally see inspiring, interesting, intelligent women wearing beautiful fashion. Although I am only 23 years old myself, I find much more inspiration in these ladies than any of the style icons I find whenever looking for inspiration elsewhere. Ilona might be my favorite, but all of these women are such inspirations. All of you make me look forward to next many, many years.
Thank you!
Dear Ari
I am an editor of PACKAGING POLSKA magazine and I simply fell in love with the picture of Linda Rodin in Karin Walker's sun glasses, bleached jeans jacket and the turquoise setting. Would it be possible to publish it in our magazine? Let me know at redakcja.pack@printernet.pl
Applause from Poznań, Poland
Paulina Malińska
This is a fantastic blog and gives me something to aim for. I'm not quite there yet, being only 53 (but I have a head of silver hair), but these ladies are so stylish and put younger women to shame. Good on you Ari for making older ladies so important. Just wish more of the western world felt the same
At 64 I'm so looking forward. Think your ladies and gentlemen inspire and confirm all of us I feel the next 30yrs will be our time
At 64 I'm so looking forward. Think your ladies and gentlemen inspire and confirm all of us I feel the next 30yrs will be our time
I saw your interview on the Australian morning shows. What a fantastic project (and what amazing women). Nicely done.
Sandra in Sydney
I saw the programme on Australian television about your blog. I was amazed. You did exactly what I did, although your product is more beautiful than mine. When I moved to Sabah, on Borneo island, I saw many good musicians - and there was nothing about them on the internet. So I wrote a blog about them. When I said I was moving to Australia 3 years later, people asked me to make a book from the blog, and it was launched with a real feel-good buzz about it, just before I left. I love what you said, "I didn't know if anyone would be interested. I just did it." Well done
I have just stumbled into heaven! This blog is clever, wise, stylish.Wwhat's not to love? xx
Ari,
I've seen bits and pieces of your blog from time to time and now I'm hooked. Having just celebrated my 65th birthday I am only just realizing how ignored my baby boomer generation is in fashion publications, sometimes in style but generally in models. It's a pleasure to see my fashionista sisters in style expressing themselves in such a remarkable way. Though my childhood and formative adult years were spent in NYC, I am now trapped in mid- Atlantic suburbia and can honestly say that there is a fundamental lack of creativity that one sees in numbers in only a few cities. I blame mid-America style merchandising for all that because true fashion can be assembled at any price point. Thank you so very much for sharing the fabulous and chic looks of the slightly older women of NYC.
I hope this isn't a April fools joke....
I was listening to WNPR public radio when your blog was mentioned. With great interest I checked out your blog, finally someone who realizes we are here with lot to say and express with our own style not our grandmother's.
Kudos to you, you made my day!
Fabulous! Thank you for your work of showing that aging isn't a disease and that beauty is timeless. I teach yoga to seniors and have a yoga/wellness blog (blog.wellnessencounters.com) and Pinterest page about aging well (http://pinterest.com/wejulie/beautiful-aging/), and have posted some of your blog pages, with credits and links back to you. Keep up your work---your nanas must be very proud of you!
When I found you and your wonderful fashion folk I had been railing that there is no representation of the older women of style in media.
I ordered the book and know that at least in New York style is happening, in San Francisco also, in pockets.
I want to recognize the wonderful people of style everywhere the way we tried to do in the 70's when dressing interestingly was considered fun. It is FUN!!
Oakland, CA
Simply wonderful to see women wearing maturity with flair! But getting down to swimsuit level is the hardest. So if getting back into the water is your dream, please give Truesuit.com a shot. We custome cut a classic tank made in fabulous shape flattering patterns, and we guarantee your happiness (with the suit) or you don't have to pay.
We'd love to donate 5 suits to your next fashion show! Seriously...this could just be the suit of your dreams!
Thank you!
Hi Ari
Just heard you and a couple of your ladies on Woman's Hour on radio 4 here in the UK. Great to hear the voices of two of your muses. They sounded feisty and sparky. Keep up the good work
Maureen in Cheshire UK
Hello Ari,
My name is Pedro Silva and I am an honors journalism student at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I am currently completing my thesis on the emergence of fashion blogging and how it is a unique form of communicating about fashion. I was hoping then if I could please interview you for my thesis. It would certainly mean a lot!
I honestly don't know if this will work, but it's worth a shot. Feel free to e-mail me at psilv1@asu.edu. Again, I would beyond appreciate your help!
Thank you,
Pedro Silva
Heard about you on BBC Woman's Hour yesterday, wow, what an inspiration to all of us women young and old. As a relatively new Mum you lose your sense of identity temporarily, you've inspired me to most definitely not to!!! Great work.
You have opened my eyes. I am in love with what you are doing. And you...
Ari, I love you and the blog, you are teaching us all to open our eyes and our hearts just a bit wider!
Hi Ari,
I through fashion.net find your blog, i'm very like your style, i have chinese style blog is my signnature.
Ari I was out shopping yesterday and a women passed me who was the embodiment of Advanced Style and I thought "OMG I wish Ari was here!". I didn't have my cell phone with me otherwise I would have taken her picture for you. So I have to thank you for making me notice these fabulous women when I see them now.
Ari...thank you, thank you, thank you for this WONDERFUL project whose time has come! I so enjoyed being approached & photographed by you April 7th on Madison Ave. in NYC... "ADVANCED STYLE' is indeed ADVANCED!
xoxo, Richelle "Happy Coincidence" April 8, 2013
Hi Arie! I think you are incredibly stylish and really fun. Having read your blog makes me smile always and I kinda look up to you now, I know exactly how age is just the number and its the the style of life which we live counts.
lots of love and regards,
Pink chiffon!
http://pinkchiffonandacuppa.com/
Hi Ari! you are incredible! I love your blogspot and and have made me really realize that age is just the number its the sytle of living which matters! :D
pinkchiffonandacuppa.com
Hi Arie! You are incredible! you made us realize that age is just a numbers and its the style of living which matters. i know exactly how i want to grow old ;) :-D xoxo
Hi Ari
You're getting everywhere. You're on the BBC website today. Keep up the good work
Maureen in the UK
Great blog and inspiring content! Thanks! You should consider attending the Chelsea Flower Show in London, especially on the Members' Days (this year on May 21-23, 2013). You would have an absolute field day - the British ladies (majority 50+) and gents make a special effort to impress. Greetings from Berlin!
Im so happy to have found your blog!
You bring great inspiration, and especially the lovely ladies. I wish, or I want, to be like them when I'm older.
Greetings from Vienna, Austria
ps. There's some wonderful ladies in Vienna too ;)
Hi Ari! I'm obsessed with your blog and your instagram! If you were looking for a summer intern, I would love the opportunity to send you my cover letter and resume!
Another wrote..'I am now trapped in mid- Atlantic suburbia and can honestly say that there is a fundamental lack of creativity that one sees in numbers in only a few cities'..lol I am stuck in FL, from MA and ..well..trying to make do. LOVE this blog Ari, Im not a gorgeous aging NYorker, but the creativity is in me, always has been. Trying with external makings, but feel the need to make the statement of ME even if I do stick out, and Im in conservative, somewhat backwards FL..thnx and keep up the good work..be seeing you here..may answer the questions here as well..making me think, I def feel invisible, espec to men here..another story ;>) thnx Deborah, 61 in 3 wks!
Fantastic blog!
Such a unique blog. Your approach to fashion is both innovative and flattering. I'm enticed with the promise of a beautiful story being conveyed through the older generation.
Great website. Do you accept blog posts from stylish seniors?
Ari,
Your blog made me remember... When I was in my twenties, working as a nursing assistant in a retirement home, I had to bathe and dress residents before breakfast. I remember being surprised at the lack of decent looking clothes most people had, and the utter lack of accessories or makeup.
One morning I had just finished dressing a woman, (her son was a doctor) who had almost no decent clothing. She was like a limp rag, expressionless and unresponsive. I opened a drawer to find her comb, and noticed an old tube of bright red lipstick in the back. I asked her if she wanted to wear some. Without saying a word, her head shot up, chin went up, and she pursed her lips. I was amazed! After her lipstick was applied, her shoulders were held high, and she was alert. Her eyes held a fire that was not there ten minutes before.
The moral of the story is that I learned from this how important it is to our sense of well-being to care for our appearance, and that we are never to old to do so.
Thank you for your work... I actually brings a sense of hope to me as I age to see that stylish, beautiful older women are being given the attention they deserve.
DEW
Dear Ari,
This morning I was looking at your blog and well each time I do I cannot stop thinking that I love it. I am 25 and I think all of these women are inspiring, it reminds me of my grandmother who loved to make herself pretty and compliments were always welcome too.
this afternoon when I came home (I live in Paris) there was a free journal in my post box "Culte(s)", I flipped through it and there it was one of your models that I have seen only a few hours earlier on your blog. Linda Rodin is the model for the article about women with glasses...
All the best from Paris, Solveig
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