{"id":62656,"date":"2019-11-25T01:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62656"},"modified":"2019-11-25T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T01:38:53","slug":"janis-wilkins-meet-fashions-newest-hot-model-63-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62656","title":{"rendered":"Janis Wilkins: Meet fashion\u2019s newest hot model \u2014 63-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 8, 2018, photographer Janis Wilkins returned home from an afternoon yoga class to find her Washington Heights apartment building engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-2.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The seven-alarm fire \u2014 caused by a faulty toaster in a neighboring unit \u2014 destroyed her rented home of 15 years. It also displaced the 63-year-old photographer for more than a year, which she spent at Hotel 17 near Union Square.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Though the fire took away so much \u2014 and she unfortunately did not have renter\u2019s insurance \u2014 in a Big Apple twist of fate, it sparked a glamorous new modeling career for Wilkins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire was stimulating. I was activated [by being] in a completely different part of the city. It was freeing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, she was walking near 15th Street and Third Avenue wearing yoga clothes and \u2014 in a change \u2014 not trying to hide the white roots invading her long honey-blond mane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was dying my hair [at the time],\u201d she recalled. \u201cBut it was a hot day, and I said, \u2018I am going to let my white hair fly.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, she felt a tap on the shoulder. It was Daniel Peddle, a well-respected casting director who discovered Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-3.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018I\u2019m casting [an advertising campaign for lingerie company]\u00a0ThirdLove\u00a0and we want women with different ages and different bodies,\u2019\u201d said Wilkins, who had never modeled before. \u201cI wasn\u2019t looking for it, but I said, \u2018Sure!\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the casting, potential models were asked just one question: Why do you like your body?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that I love my body because I am healthy,\u201d Wilkins remembered. She landed the gig, appearing in both the brand\u2019s commercial and in its campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two months later, \u201cI was driving down Broadway at night, right by the [Ed Sullivan Theater at 53rd Street] and we hit a traffic light. My friend goes, \u2018Look!\u2019 \u2014 and there was a five-story billboard on the theater. And there was my image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past January, she walked in her first-ever New York Fashion Week show, for the edgy brand Deveaux.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music is blasting, and you feel like Madonna on stage,\u201d the late bloomer said of the runway.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for an ex-hippie from Flushing, Queens, as she describes herself.<\/p>\n\n<p>Wilkins, who\u2019s not married and has no kids, briefly attended art school, lived on a commune in California, spent a year in Brazil and then programmed computers on Wall Street in the early 1990s before becoming a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she\u2019s signed to Muse, a major modeling agency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-4.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Janis-Wilkins-4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wilkins said that when she was offered the deal, \u201cDaniel called and said, \u2018This is the first time I have had a mature model sign so quickly.\u2019 I thought it was an April Fool\u2019s joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has since posed for the clothing brand Universal Standard, walked in a Studio 189 show and modeled for the November issue of Allure magazine. And she was happy to show off glitzy holidaywear in a photo shoot for The Post, at Butterfly bar and lounge in Soho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearing that maroon velvet suit, I felt just like Catherine Deneuve,\u201d Wilkins said.<\/p>\n<p>She chalks up her outer beauty to a mainly vegetarian diet, yoga, argan oil on her face and a little bit of mascara and lipstick. She doesn\u2019t wear foundation or facial makeup.<\/p>\n<p>As for her inner well-being, Wilkins meditates and said she\u2019s healthier after learning to not take anything personally. She also speaks Spanish and Portuguese, regularly working on her grammar to keep sharp: \u201cSpeaking other languages helps when you are older because it keeps the neurons developing,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s her hair \u2014 which she is finally letting go its natural color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now love celebrating white hair,\u201d said Wilkins of her new look and new life. \u201cIt\u2019s so liberating to not have to deal with hair dye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month she moved back into her renovated uptown apartment. She is now unpacking and rearranging her favorite old belongings to fit her new life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the fire wasn\u2019t terrible. It was shocking, but it\u2019s not cancer,\u201d said Wilkins. \u201cI am grateful that now I have this new career after it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole thing has reminded me to trust the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 8, 2018, photographer Janis Wilkins returned home from an afternoon yoga class to find her Washington Heights apartment building engulfed in flames. The seven-alarm fire \u2014 caused by a faulty toaster in a neighboring unit \u2014 destroyed her rented home of 15 years. 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