When Dorrit Bøilerehauge was 60, an email from a modelling agency landed in her inbox – she was being scouted for a job. “I was flattered, but I was also hesitant,” she recalls. For decades she had worked in fashion communication and as an academic specialising in fashion at Aarhus university in Denmark. “When I was in the media, or asked about anything, it was never about me, it was about my analysis, my work. Could I combine being a model with being an expert?”
Her two daughters and colleagues persuaded her to give it a go. “I loved it from the very first,” she says. Bøilerehauge also danced until she was 57, so she was comfortable performing. “It’s a dialogue between the model and the photographer. I pay attention – what would they like from me? I try to fill their creative framework. It’s a very focused spot to be in, a dialogue in words but also in movement … And it gives me a lot of energy.”
