Cohen grew up in San Diego, where he spent many afternoons with his grandmothers, Bluma and Helen, watching old movies, trying on clothes and going through scrapbooks of photos showing people dressed to the nines.
After he finished school, he set his sights on New York City with an eye toward meeting Mimi Weddell, the 93-year-old model, actress and hat enthusiast whom he had admired from afar, after seeing the 2008 documentary film about her life, "Hats off."
He wrangled an invitation to tea. (‘She wouldn’t give me cookies, but she offered me Brandy," he remembers of his first meeting with the late Weddell (pictured above with Cohen), who was a health enthusiast. "Everything she told me about life and style inspired me."
Cohen began to notice other stylish older women on the streets of New York— "a wonderful city for older people to live in," he says. and he asked to take their photographs.
Suprisingly, most were not offended. "I have never been shy to go up to people, but I did have to learn my approach. I tell them I’m photographing women 60 and above, and since most of them are 80 and above, they are flattered," he says. "Many of them were very open to sharing their stories. I met women on the street who would invite me up to their apartments to see their wardrobes. I get voicemails every day from a lot of women," he adds with a laugh.
He started the blog as a response to what he saw as a lack of representation of older people in the media. "Everything I found in my research poked fun," he says. "Which was different from what my eyes were seeing on the street."
The blog has been a boon for Cohen, leading to freelance work for AARP magazine, and exhibitions of his photographs at stores and galleries in Europe. He's currently working on an "Advanced Style" film, which he hopes to complete this summer, and another book, this one more focused on health and lifestyle for the over-60 set.
So at the tender age of 30, how does Cohen feel about his advancing years?
"we all are going to get older. It’s not about me looking forward to it, it’s about me being OK with it," he says. "I’ve learned how to live my life more fully from the women I have met who are 100 and still doing Pilates. I have a new sense of freedom, and have learned to let things go and just accept myself."
The real life Ukrainian Barbie doll went viral over the internet on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Ukrainian Barbie doll, Valeria Lukyanova, used plastic surgery and applied cosmetics daily to make herself look like a real-life Barbie, according to reports by several international news sites on Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
Reports say that the real life Ukrainian Barbie doll has uploaded several YouTube videos on her Amatue channel. As of posting, Lukyanova’s video has over 1.5 million views. Lukyanova has described herself as “the most famous Russian woman on the Russian-language Internet.”
The 21-year-old model Lukyanova reportedly features the most common physical characteristics of a Barbie doll. She was able to achieve her wide-eyed look by using opaque lenses. She also imitates Barbie’s several makeup styles to maintain her living-doll looks.
The Jezebel website in the US reportedly discovered the real life Ukrainian Barbie doll. The site created a video that shows all the surgeries that Valeria Lukyanova has supposedly go through to transform herself into a living doll.
Doug Barry of Jezebel said that their video “chronicles, using gloriously bizarre Sims animation, the many supposed surgeries that 21-year-old Ukrainian model, musician, and astroplanner Valeria Lukyanova has undergone to turn herself into a living, breathing Barbie.”
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He wrangled an invitation to tea. (‘She wouldn’t give me cookies, but she offered me Brandy," he remembers of his first meeting with the late Weddell (pictured above with Cohen), who was a health enthusiast. "Everything she told me about life and style inspired me."
Valeria Lukyanova Image Credit: MSN.com
