For author and now influencer SophieFontanel, her decision to be photographed naked at 59 was both a stand against ageism and a celebration of self-acceptance.
Age. One of the very last diversity frontiers left largely unaddressed by the fashion industry. Age: the upward-moving escalator we’re all stuck on, whether we accept it or not. Age: the thing that my thirty-something girlfriends couldn’tI said I wanted to see more of on the covers of fashion magazines the other day.
Sometimes Fontanel seems like a lone reed in Paris. Or at least a rare treasure. Today she’s as famous for her proud ownership of the age-positive influencer space as her award-winning writing. @SophieFontanel’s daily Instagram updates on fashion and cultural phenomena make her account a go-to source of industry news and hot takes, with a following of 260k.
To Fontanel the violence analogy extends further than armies. Violence, she says, can also permeate our consideration of our own bodies. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Fontanel recalls being taught to choose kindness as the best method of being accepted. But her gentle nature and innocence were nearly irreparably damaged when Fontanel was raped at the age of 16 by a boy she’d met at a nightclub. “I didn’t know what flirting even meant.
With the release of her novel, Sophie had a flash of inspiration, and decided to pose naked in a leading French women’s magazine. The photos, both playful and intimate, are intended both to promote peaceful self-acceptance but also to help other women overcome the endemic “ageism” she feels is prevalent in French media and public life. France, she says, is a country that loves women and holds them on a pedestal, as long as they are young enough to fit into the common French stereotype of beauty.
While ageism exists abroad, it’s a big local issue in Paris, according to Fontanel. “French people are obsessed with sexiness,” she says. “Paris’s DNA is the Louvre, the Tour Eiffel… and sex.” But the notion of sexiness somehow gets morphed with age in her city, she insists. “Someone once said to me, ‘If you no longer feel good in a miniskirt, what man is going to want to pin you up against a wall and shag you?’” She pauses.
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