Editor Laurence Descamps

September 29, 2018

Front cover and interview with Orlando Hobechi about his modelling, his fitness regime, his photography and attitude to life in his fifties.

Michaela Bellisario for Iodonna Italy

June 02, 2018

One is a prophet without honour in one’s country but I guess it’s not quite true in my case. Delighted to be featured with Maye Musk, Isabella Rossellini and Daphne Selfe in this @iodonna_it feature by Michaela Bellisario photo by @clara.parmigiani #greymodel #greycollective .

Jane Atkinson, The Sun

July 22, 2018

She said: “I never intended this to go into the public arena. I handled this with dignity and didn’t want to expose Madonna."

NB: Amanda Cazalet has never spoken to the Mail on Sunday on this matter, facts and quotes are taken out of context in that paper's coverage and images used from social media without copyright license permissions

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Alex Bruni - Headline Speaker, Jakarta IDFW18

March 31, 2018

Grey Top Model Alex B (Dr. Alessandra Lopez y Royo) heads a discussion alongside fashion designer, Musa Widyatmodjo ahead of IDFW18 on changing views of beauty & fashion and a move to the east for fashion capitals, ahead of documentary, Timeless Beauty and Alex's upcoming book with Bloomsbury Publishing.

AUTUMN/WINTER 2018 READY-TO-WEAR

February 16, 2018

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Matthew Amroliwala, BBC World News

January 30, 2018

Grey Model Agency founder and MD, Rebecca Valentine with top mature model, Stefanie Lange, interviewed on the rise of the mature model across global industry.

BBC News USA/Canada

January 28, 2018

Launched in 2015 to 'represent the new diverse older population', London-based Grey Models works with clients such as London Fashion Week and Hunger fashion magazine, and represents models including Vivienne Westwood's former muse Sara Stockbridge and 82-year-old Frances Dunscombe - one of the oldest models at the agency. 

To Valentine, who is also an experienced photography agent, the emphasis on older models "is a response to market pressure where, for the first time, this ageing group are refusing to sit down and shut up."

Spa Executive, ELIZABETH BROMSTEIN

October 17, 2017

The term anti-aging has been used in the spa, beauty, and wellness sector for so long that we probably don’t even think about it anymore. Anti-aging…it means not getting old. That’s good right?

HUF Magazine, photography by Corinna Luce

October 09, 2017

Credit
Photographer and art director: Corinna Luce
Producer: Nicole Andrea
Stylist: Paulina Gzik
Makeup: Ando Kumiko and Maryna Beskorovayna
Hair: Tina Milen
Set designer: Gala Cabrera
Model: Gabrielle @ First Model Management
Actor guru: Jevon @ Grey Agency
Trapezist: Anna Artés Closa
Juggler: Daniel Edwards
Dog: Alfredo

Tessa Cunningham, Daily Mail

October 05, 2017

All twins are special. But few come more special than Gay and Zoe Spink. Beauty queens in the Seventies, the sisters are still modelling — at 65. 

And every step of their journey was captured in photos.

Here they share their enchanting album, charting the highs and lows of the past 60 years, and tell TESSA CUNNINGHAM what it’s like to always have your mirror image in front of you . . .

Lucy Laing, Femail, Daily Mail

September 24, 2017

• Beauty twins Zoe and Gay Spink are both still working as models at the age of 65

• They both won a Miss Great Britain title and recently signed with model agency 

• Zoe was inspired by her sister's success after she won Miss Yorkshire Roll title 

BBC2 News - Victoria Derbyshire Show

September 18, 2017

Grey model, Alex Bruni, interviewed regarding lack of Diversity at LFW SS18

Vogue

September 15, 2017

Grey model, Alex Bruni walks for Joanne Hynes AUTUMN/WINTER 2017 READY-TO-WEAR collection for London Fashion Week

Sky News live

June 25, 2017

Pin up Pensioners - Grey instigates launch of mature model agencies worldwide

Alyson Walsh, The Guardian Fashion

June 08, 2017

Social media has enabled us to look beyond appearance and demographics to lifestyle, personality and psychographics. Like-minded people interact online via style blogs and Instagram, and information relating to their interests and attitudes is essential for marketing departments to consider. “Brands are scared,” continues Valentine, “because they’ve never had to pitch to people who were revolutionary and rebellious in the 1960s and 70s before.” Whether you’ve grown up with rock and roll, or still have that punk attitude, you’re never going to accept lazy stereotypes.

Hayley Morgan, Highsnobiety

May 08, 2017

“This new emphasis on grey-haired or mature inclusion has not been dreamt up by a fashion designer looking for a new angle; it is a response to market pressure where, for the first time, this aging group is refusing to sit down and shut up,” she continues. “They are the generation of rebels, punks, rockers, rappers and gay-coming-outers after all – they are used to being listened to, and when they are not, they shout louder and demand more.”

Karen Kay for The Guardian/Observer

April 23, 2017

Two years ago, Rebecca Valentine launched Grey Model Agency and now has 300 men and women on her books. “In the last six to 12 months we have received lots more briefs and bookings from cooler brands in the fashion, beauty and travel sectors,” says Valentine. “But it’s still important to have an element of aspiration: even older models must be exceptional looking. The view of wrinkles is changing: now clients are looking for radiant complexions and don’t mind the lines.”

One of Valentine’s signings is Frances Dunscombe, an 84-year-old who next month will appear on the cover of a major fashion magazine. Having never modelled before, Dunscombe joined Grey at its inception, and has since walked the runways of London fashion week and embraced a range of fashion shoots and TV work.

Lynne Hyland, Notebook Magazine (Sunday Mirror)

April 02, 2017

"As I went greyer I found dye didn’t take on my hair like it used to. It went from looking shiny to looking like I was putting mud over grey hair. It had a funny orangey tone to it too, what my husband called “Red Setter” – good on dogs, not on humans!

"The final straw was seeing a picture of myself with my horrible muddy brown hair and I just looked old. I thought, “Who am I trying to kid?” I went cold turkey for a bit, but that looked hideous. Then I got blonde highlights so the contrast wasn’t so bad as it grew out."

Kim Chakanetsa, BBC World Service, The Conversation at 13:30 and 21:30 GMT.

March 20, 2017

Models Alex Bruni and Mahalia Handley challenging perceptions of female beauty talk to Kim Chakanetsa about how the industry is becoming more diverse, why they decided to take up modelling in the first place, and how to maintain that all-important inner confidence. 

Katya Delimbeuf, Expresso News, Portugal

March 18, 2017

Grey Model Agency, London spearheads the move towards positive representation for mature models in fashion.

Martyn Lewis, Agenda, Wireless Radio

December 05, 2016

Sir Martyn Lewis interviews Olympian icon Tessa Sanderson OBE and Award-winning Frances Dunscombe about their choice to become a model after 5o and their representation of Grey Model Agency ltd.Award winning

Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery

February 20, 2017

This year 7,038 votes were cast between 17 November 2016 and 12 February 2017. The overall winner was Frances by Josh Redman, which received 621 votes.

Nowness Fashion & Beauty, Emily Stein

February 17, 2017

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Louisa Pritchard, Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph

February 05, 2017

Nicola Griffin is signed to Grey Model Agency - the only UK modelling agency dedicated to models aged 35-plus - and has seen offers of work pour in. 

'We are seeing a steady month-on-month rise in bookings,' Rebecca says. 'It's not only the silver-hair look model bookers are after: we are seeing a move towards a more diverse representation of 40-plus women in general'.

Presenter Jenni Murray, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

February 02, 2017

Interview: Alex Bruni who started modelling twelve years ago aged 47 on what it's like being an older model.

Demetra Fisher, Best of Burlington Magazine

December 05, 2016

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ANNA PURSGLOVE FOR THE DAILY MAIL

December 04, 2019

Asked to sum up the Pirelli calendar, your answer would probably go something like this: scantily-clad models posing suggestively for the titillation of men who deal with car tyres. You would be significantly less likely to put it forward as a celebration of female ageing -
 

Native Monster Express & Star

November 21, 2016

Those who chose to visit Walsall’s The Light cinema were given an extra treat when actress Abi Adeyemi and actor Michael Tomlinson made a special appearance to sign autographs and speak with fans.
 

Liz Hoggard Daily Mail

November 20, 2016

Tessa Sanderson, 60, pictured above, is an Olympic and Commonwealth javelin gold medallist
 

At 60, I feel a new zest. And now, I am modelling for Grey Model Agency. My husband was thrilled. He said: ‘Good on you, you’re in great shape.’

©Josh Redman

November 15, 2016

Frances at age 83 nude portrait by Josh Redman wins 2016 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Price John Kobal New Work Award.

Victoria Lambert, Sunday Telegraph

November 06, 2016

While older models are becoming more common, they tend to be pale-skinned with silver, pepper pot grey or artfully blonded hair. But Grey say they are excited about Sanderson’s potential as an ambassador for mature black women, pitching her to represent key brands such as L’Oréal, MAC cosmetics, H&M, M&S and John Lewis.

"Women of my age aren't invisible," says Sanderson CREDIT: JULIAN ANDREWS/EYE R8 PRODUCTIONS

Suzanne Bearne, The Guardian

October 31, 2016

‘I want to be doing this for the next 20 or 30 years’

Nicola Griffin, 56, is a model. She lives in Nottingham and is signed to the Grey Model Agency.

BBC The One Show

September 15, 2016

To celebrate Vogue's 100 years, The One Show asks Frances, her daughter Tineka and her grand daughter Sophie to share their love of fashion and how style has changed.

Campaign, Shona Ghosh

September 07, 2016

Ted Baker claims fashion first with Google collaboration on 'Mission impeccable'
 

The campaign is primarily digital and centres on a spy-themed online film called "Mission impeccable".

The three-minute spot portrays the brand as an MI5-style spy headquarters, sending out agents to track down a fashion villain called The Needle.

The Telegraph, Bethan Holt, digital fashion editor

July 15, 2016

Just weeks after H&M revealed  the beautiful 60-year-old Gillian McLeod  as one of their swimwear models and the #MySwimBody initiative supported by Ashley Graham was launched, JD Williams has enlisted Nicola Griffin, 56, and Jilly Johnson, 62, to front a campaign encouraging women of all ages, shapes and sizes to feel proud to wear a bikini.

The Huffington Post / Huff/Post 50 Editor / Yagana Shah

June 23, 2016

Youth might be worshipped nowadays, but here at Huff/Post50, we think it’s confidence that truly makes a person sexy ... no matter what their age. And there’s no better proof of that than 73-year-old Nora.

Alex B for Age Of No Retirement

June 01, 2016

Writer, artist and exquisite grey model Alex B. examines the mysterious case of the missing big white wedding dress and finds that confidence in who she is is the key to wearing whatever the heck you want, when you want.

Petrie Inventory, Photographer - Boris Camaca Stylist - Tess Pisani Make-Up Artist - Andrea Chiu Hair Stylist - Akiko Kawasaki

July 01, 2016

“Si on ouvrait les gens, on trouverait des paysages. Moi, si on m'ouvrait, on trouverait des plages.” - Agnès Varda

Best Magazine, Kim Willis - Phoenix Features

July 21, 2016

In this week's Best magazine, the feel-good story of three women refusing to let naysayers stand in their way, crush their dreams or dampen their spirit.

Director Vicky Lawton DOP Maja Zamojda

May 01, 2016

Feel Unique – I Can’t Live Without

Iodonna, Italy, di Michaela K. Bellisario

March 03, 2016

Da H&M a Parigi ha sfilato una leggenda del catwalk, Pat Cleveland, 65 anni. Alla London Fashion Week sono apparse "top" di 70 anni. E a Londra un'agenzia per modelle "old" sta riscuotendo successo

February 11, 2016

Men are often told to look at their partner's mother to witness their future

Norfolk Magazine

February 08, 2016

At Strattons Hotel in Swaffham, this month’s atmospheric fashion shoot gives a nod to literary classics and luxury decadence

Marcia Peltier, Brazil Por Marina Lemos Gonzaga

January 01, 2020

Agências especializadas em profissionais mais velhas ganham presença no mercado, inclusive no Brasil. Ainda bem!

After Nyne

June 29, 2016

Mystery? The intangible? The absurd? 

Photographer and artist Carolina Mizrahi brings her avant garde vision exclusively to After Nyne 10: The Eve of the Avant Garde. 

The Rio de Janeiro-born artist has graced the pages of Vogue Brazil, Portugal, Gioiello and heads up a phenomenal line-up for this - our tenth issue. 

Get your print or digital copy from our online Store. 

Huffington Post, Fashion For All

February 11, 2016

What is Grey? This is the question I asked when researching the concept of a mature model agency early in 2015. On launch we wanted to challenge the perception of ‘grey’ and did so via an In-Your-Face slogan T-shirt campaign - fronted by punk vintage model, Sara Stockbridge, slim cool Antony and beautiful body art, Matthew, all sporting the ballsy, confrontational, Am I Grey? Tee.

The Telegraph, by India Sturgis

February 17, 2016

Three years after that trip to the bank, at the improbable age of 56 and a buxom size 16, she has just become the latest British pin-up for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, an American institution for more than half a century.

January 13, 2016

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Festival of Marketing 2015

December 22, 2015

Senior figures in the marketing industry gathered at the Festival of Marketing last month for a compelling debate about whether brands can really appeal to everybody and what opportunities are available to businesses who get it right.

Moda 24, Italia –di Chiara Beghelli

October 21, 2015

Forse nessun aspetto della moda è capace di suscitare tanto dibattito, e tanti manicheismi, come lo standard estetico delle modelle. La vicenda della modella taglia 38 Charli Howard, che si è ribellata alla sua agenzia che le chiedeva di dimagrire ancora («non posso mica tagliarmi le ossa!», ha replicato) ha preceduto di pochissimo il caso della foto di una modella molto magra sulla cover di Marie Claire, su cui è intervenuta anche la scrittrice  Michela Murgia.

FNW fashion news magazine by Redazione, Italy

October 30, 2015

Grey Models

Modelle con i capelli grigi che partecipano alle Fashion Week!

Avete presente la campagna pubblicitaria Dolce&Gabbana in cui a posare accanto alla Balti c’erano simpatiche nonnine con capelli bianchi e scialle sulle spalle? Ebbene, la moda le adora e le vuole, più delle ventenni!

L'Huffington Post, Italia,

October 22, 2015

Lentamente ma in maniera sempre più decisa il mondo della moda sta aprendo le porte alle indossatrici che non rispettano il rigido canone della magrezza e della giovane età. 

Uno dei segnali è il lancio in Gran Bretagna di una agenzia per modelle mature che promuove sulle copertine dei femminili e nei servizi di moda donne che hanno ormai passato i quaranta, i cinquanta e persino i sessant'anni. E che sembrano molto felici del proprio aspetto.

Panorama, Italy, Barbara Massaro

October 23, 2015

Curvy, con la vitiligine, persino down. La moda pare, finalmente, aprirsi ad un canone di bellezza meno convenzionale del consueto accettando che alcune modelle possano non essere alte, magre e mediamente tristi.

Lucedale, Indonesia

December 03, 2015

Tri Handoko's show for IPMI Trend Show 2016 was an exceptional story for me. What I expect to be another genius work of himself and his fashion director, Ajeng Svastiari, turned out to be shocking in contrary - nothing typical, of course (as Tri Handoko always been), but this time it was specifically fenomenal.

Fashion Insight

December 03, 2015

Grey Model Agency has been appointed to represent Instagram phenomenon Sarah Jane Adams (aka Saramai). In under 12 months she has amassed in excess of 43k followers with no marketing, representation or intention. Her followers are genuinely inspired by her lifestyle and, most importantly, her unique ability to combine an eclectic wardrobe to bridge youth with age.

The Beauty Shortlist,

November 24, 2015

Fifty isn’t when things stop.  It’s when good things start.  But I’ve thought about this post on and off for a couple of weeks – from a beauty angle, a society angle, a human angle, the media angle – and what seems to have risen to the top is the fact that at the end of the day it’s surely more about livingthan ageing.  Living well, being well.

InMyBag

January 01, 2020

Here at InMyBag we love to bring you different perspectives and insights on photography and today we are very excited to feature not a photographer, but top London photography agent Rebecca Valentine!

Style, Mic Network, USA By Rachel Lubitz

November 04, 2015

For more than 15 years, Rebecca Valentine spent her days staring young men and women up and down, gauging their looks and charisma in order to book them for modeling jobs — commercials, photo shoots, ad campaigns, the works.

Little Black Book, Celebrating Creativity, LBB Editoria

December 01, 2015

Rebecca Valentine launched Grey Model Agency, a company specialising in mature models – it may seem a surprising move in a youth-obsessed culture but Rebecca had noticed an increasing appetite for elegant grown-ups. Baby boomers represent the most economically powerful demographic in developed countries and that’s being increasingly reflected in fashion mags and advertising. LBB’s Laura Swinton caught up with Rebecca to learn more…

Woomans Weekly, Beth Shearing

October 26, 2015

Grey Model Agency's founder Rebecca Valentine tells Woman's Weekly what she looks for in new signings
Read more at http://www.womansweekly.com/fashion-beauty/could-you-be-a-mature-model-with-that-special-sparkle-18645/#sLWTRLQqCt8xA2E1.99

China Telegraph

October 30, 2015

Chinese Telegraph article about Frances at LFW SS16 for Youjai Jin.

The Times, Working Life by David Waller

October 22, 2015

Rebecca Valentine watches as two models, Jon Campling and Nicola Griffin, stand in the crosshairs of the camera and the photographer as his assistants move lights and reflectors around them.

Huffington Post, Rosy Cherrington Style writer, The Huffington Post UK

October 20, 2015

For women in their forties, fifties and beyond, the fashion industry is finally starting to grow up - we’re living in an age where we’re over age shaming.

One woman helping older models make waves is Rebecca Valentine, who opened the doors to Grey Model Agency in March this year.

Bustle, GEORGINA JONES

October 04, 2015

For plus size brand Anna Scholz's autumn/winter 2015 campaign, the company has featured the gorgeous 55-year-old plus size model Nicola Griffin to sport the fall collection. Hailing from the books of Grey Model Agency — a modeling agency that solely represents female models ages 40 and up (even into their 80s!) — Nicola Griffin and Anna Scholz are giving us a fresh look at fashion and beauty.

Noctis Magazine, by Sophie Monro-Pruett

September 28, 2015

Grey models Helen, Annabel and Frances at #lfwss16

Jing Daily, China, Alexa Beatriz

September 22, 2015

“Life goes by too quickly. Open your eyes. What will we remember most? Slow down each moment. Stop and think.” This is the message China-born, London-based fashion designer Youjia Jin said was  the main idea of her London Fashion Week runway show on Saturday. 

High 50, by Judy Heminsley

September 15, 2015

Despite Harvey Nichols having decreed 2015 to be ‘the year of the grey’, women who don’t dye have come in for criticism recently from hairdresser Nicky Clarke and colourist Jo Hansford. Articles in The Daily Mail and The Guardian have quoted them both as believing that grey hair is ageing, unattractive and unflattering.

Frost Magazine by Corinne Tuddenham-Trett

August 19, 2015

Leroy Dawkins, editor of popular blog Diary of a Clotheshorse, US fashion Editor and celebrity Blogger at LaPalme Magazine today signed with the Grey model Agency.

Grey Model Agency is a niche agency that specialises with the representation of mature models.

BJP

August 26, 2015

Rebecca Valentine, Owner at Grey, interviewed in this BJP Fashion issue discussing how big brands are embracing #beautifullyageing diversity 

British Beauty Blogger, Jane Cunningham

August 05, 2015

I’ve been intrigued by the Grey Model agency ever since I spotted them on Twitter – I needed a quote from founder, Rebecca Valentine, for another publication, but ended up knowing I needed to blog this. With ‘grey’ now being a fashion thing, and the beauty industry realising that older women hold the key to their on-going success with spending power, you’d think that Grey would be over-run with brands looking for women and men who represent the most important customers of their lives. While there is no doubt that Grey is a success (having just placed grey bearded, tattoo’d Matthew Morris in the upcoming autumn Esprit campaign),

The Observer, Women, Karen Kay

August 01, 2015

Hillary Clinton was reported to have closed off part of the upmarket Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman last week so she could discreetly attend an appointment in the exclusive John Barrett hair salon, where a cut and blow-dry is a snip at $600 – a figure that’s doubled if you’re after colour treatment too.

Natural Beauty Expert, Australia, Belinda Hughes

August 01, 2015

The time for using a 20 year old to market to the over 40s market is over. I interviewed three of the Grey Models for their thoughts to what growing out their natural hair means to them. Their answers provide some amazing insight.

NZ Herald, Judith Woods

June 19, 2015

Catwalks and ad campaigns are turning silver. Judith Woods talks to the woman who has just been spotted - at the age of 82.

The Telegraph, By Caroline Davidson

July 14, 2015

Kate Moss was 14 when she became a model, but agencies are no longer interested only in girls and teenagers. Older women are in demand