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If you happen to be 65 years of age, hairstyles are—gasp!—much the same as when you’re a 25-year-old. Hair dye, scissors, and keratin treatments do not evaporate once someone enters into their second Saturn Return. If anything, an entirely new world of beauty opens up: melanocytes decrease and what’s left behind is a swirl of silver, ash, and pewter that says “I came, I saw, and I might have conquered.” The perennial question is, do you accept the generous marks of time—à la Erin O’Connor and Jan de Villeneuve—or do you thrust yourself into a realm of experimentation—like Dame Helen Mirren and the bubblegum-pink of her 2013 BAFTAs appearance and the ocean-blue crown she sported at Cannes in 2023?
Sharon Stone has seemingly decided to do both: debuting a new half-and-half situation at the Tom Ford fall 2024 show on the second night of Milan Fashion Week. A fitting environment for a femme fatale of Stone’s stature, the actor’s gamine pixie cut—Google searches for which have spiked by 350 percent over the past few months, while Dara Allen and Myha’la Herrold have spent most of fashion month demonstrating their own face-sculpting chops—had been colored a honey-blonde with silver gradients left visible on just one side. Consider it a sort of alt-update on the ubiquitous Mallen Streak trend. “The idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true,” she once said. “I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty’, I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.”
Stone—who has long been a fan of Tom Ford’s beauty line “because he understands women and allure at all ages,” as her make-up artist Amy Oresman said back in 2021—was joined by Alek Wek, Amber Valletta, Callum Turner, and Iris Law at new creative director Peter Hawkings’s sophomore presentation, which seemed to pay homage to some of her most influential roles. You could quite easily picture Catherine Tramell strutting around in her sling-backs in this season’s micro-skirts, roll-neck columns, and cloudy PVC trench coats—each one cut from the most luxurious wealthy woman creams—and you could also imagine Ginger McKenna scamming her way through Las Vegas in Hawkings’s crystal-latticed bodysuits, slit-legged goddess columns, and wipe-clean leather trench coats, Venus in Fur-style.