Lyn Slater, the 70-year-old former fashion influencer and the author of “How to Be Old,” offers lessons on what to wear for your next act in life.
One day in 2019, Lyn Slater looked at the racks and racks of beautiful clothes in her New York City apartment — and despaired.
That has changed. Today, Slater calls herself a “reformed influencer.” She has culled her wardrobe, moved from Manhattan to an old house upstate — in Peekskill, N.Y. — and traded her designer duds for vintage Gap overalls and silk pajama tops. She has not posted #sponcon in two years. She spends her days gardening, chasing her two young grandchildren and writing.Her first book, “How to Be Old” , explores this reinvention, as well as aging, creativity, fashion and identity.
For Slater, a way to cope with change — and even manifest it — is through dress. She put together outfits modeled after the heroines of books such as “Little Women” and “The Secret Garden.” “My relationship to clothing is really not about fashion,” she said. “It’s really about using clothing more like a costume.”
“I really identify with that,” she explained. “When I started Accidental Icon, my initial message to people was about dressing from the inside out. And part of that is understanding that our internal selves are really flexible, and they change and morph over time.”Recently, Slater was asked to style three women for the “Today” show.
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