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Frances
Frances has been written about across the press joining Grey model agency and becoming a model aged 82. Her first commission was for Prada with Hunger magazine, swiftly followed by London Fashion Week 2015 walking for Chinese designer Youjai Jin for a collection inspired by the designer's relationship with her own mother to create styles to suit all ages. Frances was the oldest model to walk LFW that year attracting press coverage around the world from China, Australia, Brazil and Italy.
Since then, Frances' award winning nude portrait for photographer Josh Redman won the John Kobal Photography Award and National Portrait Gallery's peoples choice award. Frances has appeared in various interviews including BBC Radio 5 Live, alongside Tessa Sanderson CBE with Sir Martyn Lewis, a behind the scenes interview with The One Show on three generations of fashion for 100 years of Vogue alongside her daughter Tineka and Grand-daughter Sophie. Frances also featured in the Secrets of Growing Old documentary on becoming a model age 82. Youtube star, Emily Hartridge, took advise for Frances on becoming 30 for her Channel 4 show "Oh Shit I'm 30 before scooping the front cover of Harper's Bazaar UK with Jan de Villeneuve.
Frances took the cover page of Harpers UK alongside Jan de Villeneuve and has been the face for Zalando for both their season campaign and award-winning Christmas campaign. Other commissions have included Boden, Coutts, Getty, Pfizer, Saga, Portland and has been the face of Tokyo global company, Sunstar, for three years running. A 14 page spread for Impression Magazine photographed by Rankin on lingerie featured Frances, a fashion feature in The Violet Book and Ben Mak couture collection "Age is Dead" all showing Frances affinity with mature couture.