"I'm going to leave this world, and when I leave, I have to wear high heels."
This is the last romance that 90-year-old Carmen Dale Oriface pursues.
As a model, Carmen's life expectancy is incredibly long, and she is the oldest and longest-working supermodel at this stage.
From the age of 15 to 90, she worked with countless court-of-the-art photographers, appeared on the covers of all the top magazines, and worked as a model for any household name luxury brand.
In her twilight years, she still frequently appeared in the finale of major fashion weeks, just like Mei Yanfang married herself to the stage, and Carmen also walked on the catwalk for most of her life.
The youth funeral was given to three scumbags, the money was swallowed up by the financial crisis, and only the catwalk did not have a deep affection for her.
Wild roses blooming in slums
In 1931, in an artistic but unusually poor family, a mixed Italian and Hungarian child was born.
She was Carmen Dale Oriface, who had a nameless ballet dancer mother and a poor violinist father.
From the age of 3, Carmen only had a mother, and her father wandered the world in pursuit of art.
In a damp, cold and embarrassed little house, Carmen and her mother lived on all sides of the house.
Later, Carmen recalled her childhood with only two words.
"At that time, my mother taught me to sew, taught me to cook, and the rent was $30 a month, and we couldn't get it, so we had to sell the sewing machine."
"Later, we had nothing to sell."
On difficult days, the mother pinned her dreams of a ballet dancer on her only daughter.
However, due to the humidity of the residence, Carmen suffered from rheumatism at a young age, and his knees ached every time he danced.
The mother, who had all kinds of burdens on her, hated the iron and steel and said to her: "You have big feet in the coffin, you can't dance ballet at all." ”
Her mother's ballet dreams were shattered, and Carmen fell ill with the rheumatism that had accompanied her throughout her life.
With the willows dark and the mountains exhausted, the 14-year-old Carmen ushered in his dream.
In 1945, Carmen's godfather sent her photograph to a friend who worked at Vogue magazine, and half a month later, at the age of 14, Carmen met Diana Freeland, vogue's legendary editor.
She was amazed at the sight of Carmen, but then she just brushed her hand through Carmen's hair and said in a slightly regretful tone, "If your neck grows another inch, I will send you to Paris." ”
Carmen thought to herself, "No play." She slipped back to her tattered home.
One day a few months later, a postman frantically knocked on Carmen's door.
He complained: "Why doesn't your family even have a telephone, and the mailbox is rotten..."
But the carmens ignored them, and she only heard the second half of the sentence—"Diana asked me to tell you that you're going to be on the cover." ”
Carmen was ecstatic.
Soon after, a blockbuster film featuring Carmen and starring the famous photographer Horst appeared on the cover of Vogue.
It was the first time Carmen had become a cover girl in a top fashion magazine, when she was 15 years old.
She paid her mother rent for herself to go to school, and their lives gradually improved.
Carmen's career is growing by leaps and bounds.
Suddenly, she became the darling of the fashion industry, appearing on the cover of various fashion magazines, going to various fashion weeks in Paris, and even shooting advertisements for Chanel No. 5 perfume, knowing that the last star to shoot an advertisement for it was Marilyn Monroe.
Since then, she has become popular in the fashion industry.
Withered in the abyss called love
The 20-year-old red and purple Carmen suddenly disappeared from public view.
The advertisement was shelved, the show was absent, the commercial performance was pushed out, the career was stagnant, and she fell into love.
In 1951, Carmen, floating in Vanity Fair, longed for a stable and stable family life Carmen fell in love with an unknown prodigal son and entered the family with him.
In these four years, all she did was get married, divorced and had an abortion, and had a baby.
The robe of love crawls full of lice.
The former prince revealed his true face as a "soft rice man" under the purge of life, and finally spent all the savings that Carmen had worked so hard to accumulate.
The 24-year-old Carmen was awakened by a nightmare and took her daughter away from the "unsupportable Ah Dou".
"I must not let my daughter repeat her childhood."
She's back in the modeling world, she's young, and she's able to continue selling her youth.
So as a single mother, she has never been so desperate, taking advertisements, walking on the catwalk, almost sleepless.
In 1960, at work, the photographer who took pictures of her touched her heart.
She was married again, but this time for only six months.
The husband is a lonely and nameless photographer, huai cai does not meet, and Carmen is hot, "strong women and weak men" will always bring estrangement.
Although she tried to support her husband's career, it did not improve.
In the end, the 28-year-old Carmen was accused of "beauty no longer" and was thrown out of the marriage.
Carmen, who has repeatedly loved the wrong person, still has not met a good person at the age of 35.
The third time she entrusted herself to a young and promising architect, but after marriage, she found out that he was a drug addict and even planned to instigate her daughter to take drugs.
This time, Carmen was once again swung by fate.
At the age of forty, her hair was grayed by the wounds of her feelings.
She spent nearly forty years reconciling with her lonely and loveless childhood.
Decay is in the quagmire of bankruptcy
After the emotional damage was severely damaged, she was white-haired and never married again, and no one loved, only herself.
In 1978, after many years of retirement for her family, she decided to return to modeling, when she was nearly half a hundred years old and everyone thought she was daydreaming.
And the reality is so cruel, no matter how hard she tries to cover her full white hair, no one cares.
How can there be a place for her in a modeling circle full of young women?
But what then? She's only had the catwalk for half of her life.
"As long as you're short of money, you're not afraid of anything."
It was Carmen's only option, constantly trying, constantly hitting a wall.
It wasn't until later that her friends took a set of fashion blockbusters for her, and in the photo, she didn't dye her white hair black. Her silver hair set off her unusual elegance and charm.
The film caused an unprecedented sensation, and she regained her footing.
Carmen, who is nearly half a hundred years old, has invested every cent of his earnings in funds and stocks in preparation for his life.
Yet fate always seemed so merciless, and the financial turmoil of the 80s swept in, and her investment was lost.
She went bankrupt and even had to sell classic photos of her youth to make ends meet.
"I had nothing, I sold 40 years of my youth at a low price."
She smiled bitterly, and at the age of retirement, she was going to do it all over again.
"Help me take over all the work I can take."
With a sore knee due to rheumatism, she walked the runway, shot commercials, and put on the cover whenever she had the chance.
Unexpectedly, at the age of 65, Carmen met the love of his life, 80-year-old Norman Levy, who had been together for ten years at the age of dusk.
It wasn't until 2005, when Carmen was 74, that Norman secretly left her nearly $300 million in inheritance and died.
"If you love me, please live longer for me."
It was like fate had made a joke that made her gain and let her lose.
Hearing the bad news, she just sighed, and her grievances were no longer heard.
In 2008, at the age of 77, Carmen went bankrupt again.
When the financial crisis hit, she was caught up in Madoff's financial scam.
"I became nothing again."
Nearly eighty years old, she is still busy with her livelihood.
Immortal flowers on the catwalk
Perhaps, it is the ordeal of life that makes her constantly active in the fashion circle and constantly running on the runway.
Love will disappear, the chance will be lost, only the catwalk will not betray her, only hard work will not abandon her.
In 2017, at the age of 86, she was a Chinese designer Guo Peizhenchang, wearing a red robe and looking at all sentient beings.
"With her, you don't hear any complaints about foot pain or lack of sleep. Her smile is always warm and bright, and she teaches young models a good lesson with a neat, humble and punctual professional attitude. ”
The staff who worked with Carmen always appreciated her.
Carmen was in awe of the catwalk.
In 2020, she said, "I'm 89 years old and I don't know when I'm going to die, but I want to keep going." ”
Whether it is a young girl or a white-haired old woman, beauty is a responsibility, a kind of respect for herself.
Age gave her white hair, gave her experience, and gave her the confidence to start again and again, and gave her charm and elegance.
The white-haired flower Jun Mo smiled, and the years never defeated the beauty.
The best destination for a woman, in her we have new answers.
Not to become a virtuous wife, not to become a good mother, but to live as your own queen.