Yes, this rocks. Not only are these women “grown-up”, but they are also influential female powerhouses. There’s something in the air, and it feels like a fresh, new version of feminism: Equality among the ages. (feminism is defined as equality between the sexes, but why should age be left out?) Joan Didion for Céline, 2015 and Joni Mitchell for Saint Laurent’s Music Project, 2015. I don’t mind seeing young, beautiful models in high fashion. Pretty Young Things are, well, pretty and make everything around them sort of glow, it’s true. But when I saw these ads of Joan and Joni I wanted to jump on my chair. It felt like something REAL, and powerful… fashion as represented by women of experience and accomplishment. (I feel it necessary here to make a note about women whose career is/was being a model, and who also do great work–there are many! Liya Kebede, Karolina Kurkova, Natalia Vodianova, Christy Turlington-Burns, Lauren Hutton.. just to name a few). A young female writer, Elisa Rodriguez-Vila, recently wrote a short piece titled “What if all the major …