Why Fashion Suddenly Loves Older Women (opens in new tab)

This month, Vogue did something it had never done before, something most people thought it would probably never do: It put two 76-year-old women on its cover. Sure, they weren’t just any 76-year-olds. They were Meryl Streep and the Vogue overseer Anna Wintour, and they were there in a meta way to discuss the mythology around “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” in which Streep plays a version of Wintour. But still, 76. The most recent round of fashion shows, which our fashion critic Vanessa Friedman at...