{"id":893848,"date":"2026-09-16T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893848\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:00:16","slug":"christie-brinkley-walks-first-runway-in-seven-years-at-new-york-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893848\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Brinkley walks first runway in seven years at New York Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

She\u2019s one of the most recognisable women in America<\/a>, gracing the covers of hundreds of magazines over a legendary career that\u2019s spanned more than five decades<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But for Christie Brinkley, runways are few and far between. <\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/p>\n

What a surprise! \u00a0Instagram\/ChristieBrinkley<\/p>\n

The supermodel hasn\u2019t walked one in seven years. <\/p>\n

That all changed at New York Fashion Week when Brinkley, 72, emerged to an applauding crowd at the Dennis Basso show wearing a gold off-the-shoulder gown and a megawatt smile. <\/p>\n

Brinkley celebrated the moment with her fans, sharing a clip of her parading down the catwalk on Instagram, and thanking the designer who invited her onto his stage. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne more to say thank you to [Dennis Basso] for giving this honour to a 72 1\/2 year seasoned woman. We still don\u2019t see enough of us represented,\u201d she wrote alongside the video. <\/p>\n

In an interview with People magazine<\/a>, the model and actress described her seventh decade of life as \u201camazing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I actually say the number, it seems very foreign to me because, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t feel like that, and I want to let other women know not to fear [ageing] because it\u2019s not what you think,\u201d she told the publication. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time Brinkley commanded a runway was at New York Fashion Week back in 2019 and alongside her now-28-year-old daughter Sailor, who is also a model.<\/p>\n

The supermodel catapulted to fame back in the early \u201970s when she was just 19. <\/p>\n

\"Christie<\/p>\n

Christie Brinkley with the late French photographer Patrick Demarchelier, one of the first photographers she ever met on a model shoot.\u00a0Instagram\/Christie Brinkley<\/p>\n

She was walking to a post office to phone a vet about her sick dog when a photographer asked to take her photo, handing her a piece of paper with his name and address on it. <\/p>\n

Within weeks of that fateful meeting with American photographer Errol Sawyer, Brinkley, who at the time had big dreams of a becoming an artist and settling in Paris, was shaking hands with Patrick Demarchelier and Mike Reinhardt.<\/p>\n

She blinked and became a global sensation. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

She\u2019s fronted more than 500 magazine covers in her legendary career\u00a0Conde Nast via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five decades since Brinkley popped that piece of paper in her pocket and, despite being an unshakeable force in the industry, she still considers herself lucky. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had the best time, from the first fitting where I got to see you drape and sculpt the fabric into the gorgeous gown I was so lucky to wear to close your magnificent show,\u201d she said in a public tribute to Basso. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou are such a light and fabulous ball of good energy. The whole project was a joy to be a part of!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s one of the most recognisable women in America, gracing the covers of hundreds of magazines over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-893848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}