91-year-old Jane, the embodiment of inspiration

Photographer Nikki Krecicki takes a lookbook for her 91-year-old grandmother

It is said that from 20 years onwards we enter a more mature age efficient of making us appreciate and love our remember and our roots . The family acquires a different role, before the relationships were fire and flames now they are respect and gratitude .

With the spread of technology, it seems that the new alternatives are increasingly simplicity and updates also the trivial.

Fashion has always looked to the past in search of inspiration, so creative young people take refuge in their childhood and in their family tree .

If you browse the collections of the most promising students of Fashion Design you can notice a similar leit-motif : the influence of one’s roots .

The New York photographer Nikki Krecicki looking at the graduate portfolios of the Pratt Institute he notices and reflects on the big apple: why not let the person you are inspired to wear clothes on?

After selecting the best 3 Pratt graduating students ( Anderson Osmun , Rachel Lee and Jeremy Woods ) makes Jane , 91, wear the clothes of the three future fashion designers and start shooting.

The shots taken extend the project in progress Jane & I , in which the photographer Nikki has been photographing the 91 year old Jane , former personal secretary of Albert Einstein, as well as her grandmother .

“The best thing ever is that this project made me understand how much my grandmother loves me.”

More than just a model, an example.

The decision to photograph the grandmother stems from the desire to break down the established rules on who should wear what.

grandmother Jane is a mature woman who has always considered fashion as a means to affirm gender equality . In 1944, at the age of only 17, he bought himself a pair of trousers. Socially committed, fashion is a political and social change tool for her.

It is precisely this social project started by Jane 75 years ago that pushed her granddaughter Nikki to create Jane & I , a project that fights against age-related stereotypes .

So in the summer of 2018, grandmother and granddaughter spent the summer together in their home in North Carolina, always happy place for both, wearing and taking lookbooks with the creations of the three aspiring designers.

The project, in addition to strengthening the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter, allowed Jane to rediscover herself Woman at 91 years old, until the reacquisition of her self-esteem. The maximum that every photographer can aspire to.

If you thought that in order to interpret fashion a size 38 of twenty-five years was needed, we hope we made you change your mind .. and if we have not succeeded, come and discover fifty years of Naomi Campbell: between beauty and sensuality!

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Viola Marchesi

Viaggiatrice e aspirante fashion designer. La creatività e il mio spirito libero sono ciò che meglio caratterizza il mio essere, un concentrato di positive vibes. Ho iniziato a scrivere quasi per gioco ma ho scoperto che mi piace più del previsto.