Photos: Age Issue portfolio
Photographed by Craig McDean1/6Teen Dreams
“I’ve been working since I was six, Elle since two,” says the 17-year-old actress Dakota Fanning. “What you grow up with is what you become used to.” Does the weirdness of being a teenager always in the spotlight, the abnormality of it, ever get on her nerves? “When you choose to do this with your life, you’re in the public and people watch you,” Dakota replies thoughtfully. “But I’d rather do this than not.”
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy2/6Belles De Jour
The two sets of Courtin-Clarins sisters—26-year-old Virginie and 24-year-old Claire, and their cousins, 24-year-old twins Prisca and Jenna, are the most charming “It” girls Paris has seen in a while. As well as being beautiful, smart, and extremely nice, fashion-wise they are inspiring dressers as the epitome of cool 20-something style.
Photographed by Sebastian Kim3/6Dynastic Daughter
“I want to create my own Disneyland of candy,” says the newly married 37-year old, Dylan Lauren. Her empire of candy stores, Dylan’s Candy Bar, has five locations in New York and Florida, and two more opening, one in Miami and one in L.A. next year. The company, founded in 2001, has drawn the likes of First Lady Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, and Tom and Suri Cruise. “Candy is childhood,” she says. “The best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.”
Photographed by François Halard4/6A Singular Woman
In the gossipy small town that is Paris during Fashion Week, Virginie Mouzat, fashion director of Le Figaro, is a presence. The 45-year old appears, unsmiling and huge-eyed, on the increasingly influential fashion blogs because she looks picture-perfect going in and out of shows. “Black is my color most of the time,” she says, a little guiltily. “But that’s why I’m such a fan of Chanel. Because the bible of Chanel is very simple: ivory, cream, beige, black. Pearls. And camellias. It’s purely this. Nearly no colors.”
Photographed by Sebastian Kim5/6Trailblazing Wife
At the age of 51, actress Jane Lynch has reached a plateau of preternatural calm and contentment in a life that had heretofore been anything but serene. Her scene-stealing role as the ball-breaking Coach Sue Sylvester in the Zeitgeist-cresting Ryan Murphy show Glee has propelled her into a potent figure in the international consciousness. But more importantly, her marriage to clinical psychologist Lara Embry, Ph.D., mother of eight-year-old Haden, in June 2010, changed her life in ways that she had never anticipated. “We’ve taken on everything in our first year of marriage,” says Lynch. “Moving. I gained a daughter. We renovated a house—and writing a book. I mean, talk about learning about your wife!”
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy6/6Runs In The Family
Ida Keeling, 96, has a secret because, really, you don’t set the world track-and-speed record for the 60-meter dash without something good going for you, especially if you are, like Ida, competing in the 95-to-99 age bracket. Her daughter, Shelley Keeling, 60, is her mom’s coach, though the coaching started out the other way, when the mom encouraged the then-toddling daughter, the youngster who began running as soon as she could walk. “Oh, she was running from the days of the projects,” Ida says. She is speaking of Harlem in the 1950s and 1960s. “She was a big-time runner in the street back then. She could beat anybody.”
