DAPHNE SELFE, aged 97
A model and actress, she retired when she married. In her seventies she made a comeback and became an international sensation – the oldest model in the world.
BARBARA MULLEN, aged 96
A working class girl from New York, she became a model working with leading photographers, appearing in top magazines having a career spanning three decades.
MILDRED KORNMAN, aged 97
Born into a Hollywood family she was in her first film at 9 months and became a child star, then a model, then a photographer. The last female silent movie star
PRINCESS IRA von FURSTENBERG, aged 83
An Italian princess who married young, into the jet set, she became an actress, a model, a fashion designer and a renown artist, mixing with the rich, powerful and famous.
TATJANA PATITZ, aged 56
The first German supermodel, she was the face of the 1990s, appearing on many magazine covers – but became a champion of animal rights and for ageing gracefully.
MARY ELLIN BARRETT, aged 95
Born into a wealthy New York family, her father was the famous composer Irving Berlin. She wrote the seminal biography of her father to try to correct his public image.
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