La Femme Futura was a 2016 magazine style website publishing stories about the health benefits of mushrooms to the question “Would you like to make love to a robot?” or fist- raising articles like “Never call me Senior.”
I was angry about getting old, furious to experience rampant ageism and super curious about any science that could make the threat of possible future debilitation go away for anybody over fifty. I frowned at my wrinkles but I was a rebel and did not plan to capitulate to the downfalls of biological aging as it was projected everywhere.
As a former and now reinstated journalist I was invited to cover longevity and futurist conferences , met David Wolf, Aubrey de Gray, many of the promising and passionate scientists and leaders of RAADfest and life extension forerunners.
Femme Futura’s ideas were too early for my demographic. I was not patient enough either and shut the magazine down after only a year. Accumulating additional knowledge didn’t mean that I intended powering it up professionally again; I founded the Ageless Rebellion on Facebook and a private group of the same name. My stories didn’t aim at financial success but free education. But my disappointment was bigger than personal; the presentations at the conferences like the books written, were year after year about science in progress. The interesting clinical trials in Santa Monica, CA with their half a million bucks entry ticket weren’t quite affordable. The pills and cremes I tried didn’t make me feel or look any younger even when their several hundred dollar rice suggested that it was always a little more expensive to be avantgarde.
The endless seeming “hope for tomorrow” tired me out. My enthusiasm for longevity waned.
The reawakening of my fierce feminine ways arrived with Visionary Women: A Bold New Way Forward Leadership Conference. It was the first women only gathering I attended in years and shifted my path. Older than most attendees, I joined in a 60s style mini dress, close to the micro mini of 2022. My newly printed Ageless Rebel tank tops were received with enthusiastic hellos. In my theater and feminist time of the 70s, wardrobe played a big role; we sewed our costumes and created stylish rebel women outfits like sarcastic harem pants made from light vintage curtains.
Feeling the confidence my cowboy boots and the dare of the micro mini provided and being accepted by the visionary women crowd, it hit me; it all starts with mindset. Society expects us to mute our vibrancy, our sexuality and to step gracefully into the back ground. Wearing age inappropriate outfits would be an amazingly creative giggle and the visual statements of my Ageless Rebel brand.
“No is a sentence,” I proclaimed, “say yes to your ageless essence instead. Dress your feelings not your age.”
5 years after visionary women had hugged me and several new conferences of the fierce women kind had graced my life, I am an expert in fashion psychology. My inner artist excels wearing edgy elegance and sometimes not so elegant grunge or punk or funk. I stepped into outfits like a method actor treats her roles. I became a fashion chameleon, my style always in sartorial flow with my insights, my soul or spirit. My writer self communicated with the vibration of colors, cuts and the charisma of styles and tells their stories.
The journey of hands on sartorial experiences, discovering their language and power and learning about their history, inspired me to write a fashion book that will serve women beautifully every day by making their styling choices consciously creative. Styling can be a life enhancing action.
More and more women, at least on social media, wear what they feel. There’s still a lot to wear and say to fully harvest the power of outfits. And aging doesn’t go away only because we learn to think braver thoughts. In fact aging powerfully is not for sissies, it’s a warrioress path.
La femme futura requests attention again. What’s new in 2022? Is the endless wait over and truly rejuvenating products are entering the market?
This section of my site will report the latest aging news, stories and scientific epiphanies.
We are reborn every day.
