PARIS, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Hand in hand, sporting white edgy outfits, aged fashions and style college students walked an uncommon style present on Thursday night in Paris, to advertise a extra inclusive stance on age.
“To dwell this at my age, it actually strikes me,” stated Daisy Salmon, 90, who added she was delighted to be there and speak with kids. “I’ll bear in mind this for a very long time.”
Charity Les Petits Freres des Pauvres (little brothers of the Poor) organized the intergenerational present to problem ageist views in collaboration with style faculty LISAA Mode Paris, whose college students designed the garments, or walked alongside Salmon and different fashions.
“Why not aged individuals,” 21 year-old Christian Gonzalez stated. “We overlook them too usually in our society.”
The charity’s aim with the present is to shine a light-weight on the necessity for extra age variety in style, as a part of a broader marketing campaign to boost consciousness concerning the hole between aged individuals’s realities and social clichés, which may result in their isolation.
Reporting by Sarah Meyssonnier, writing by Juliette Jabkhiro, modifying by Tomasz Janowski
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