Jacquie tajah murdock biography of william

Today Lanvin unveiled their fall campaign featuring real people as models, ranging in age from 18 to 80. We were quite taken by the campaign image featuring the most senior model–a beautiful women with her hair pulled back tight, a severe look on her face, wearing an emerald green peplum number.

Jacquie tajah murdock biography of william

She looked familiar, but we couldn’t place her at first. After some scrounging we realized that, duh, she’s one of Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style icons, Jacquie “Tajah” Murdock (she’s featured on Ari’s site, his book, and in his upcoming doc) and she’ll be 82 next week.

“Tajah” is her dance name. We tracked her down at home and hopped on the phone to chat with this most fascinating and inspiring woman about her background as an Apollo Theater dancer and how she wound up as the face of Lanvin.

Fashionista: So how did this campaign come about?
Jacquie “Tajah” Murdock: I was a dancer