FASHION: When Beauty Fades - 2

Supermodels as They Age Are Focus of Documentary. 

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Mr. Greenfield-Sanders flanked by Beverly Johnson and Cheryl Tiegs during the making of the documentary.

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His portrait of Isabella Rossellini.

Picked apart during castings for her teeth, or her thighs, Ms. Porizkova was terrified. “Every job felt like it was going to be my last,” she said. Propped on such flimsy scaffolding, her sense of self was compromised.

“What people called sexual harassment, we called compliments,” she said. “When a 16-year-old is flattered by a man pulling out his penis in front of her, that’s noteworthy.” 

FASHION: When Beauty Fades - 1

Supermodels as They Age Are Focus of Documentary

Lee Clower for The New York Times

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s documentary 
is “About Face: The Supermodels, Then 
and Now.”

The Collection: A New Fashion App for the iPad. BOYISH in her gamin crop and tie, Isabella Rossellini faced down the camera. For sure, she acknowledged, aging is a bummer. “My social status has diminished because I know I’m not invited to the A parties anymore,” said Ms. Rossellini, 60. “My daughter is. As you grow older, you don’t count anymore.”

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Paulina Porizkova is a subject of the film.

With that, she erupted into peals of laughter touched with rue, the legacy of a lifetime of highs and lows in front of the camera.