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The gallery doors opened, and a group of young design students filed in. They looked at the photographs—stark, high-contrast shots of seventy-year-old models in bold silks and structured wools—and then at Bethann. One girl, clutching a sketchbook, approached her. “How do you stay so... relevant?” the girl whispered.
Bethann smiled, the fine lines around her eyes deepening with genuine warmth. She adjusted the heavy, hand-carved amber beads at her throat.
She smoothed the lapel of her vintage charcoal blazer, a piece she’d bought in Paris three decades ago. It fit better now, not because her body hadn’t changed, but because she finally understood how to carry its weight.
“I stopped trying to be relevant ten years ago, darling,” Bethann said. “I decided to be timeless instead. Trend is a sprint; style is a long, beautiful walk. Don't rush it.”