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Glamor Queen: Maye Musk laughed as easily as today at 72
not long.
Her son Elon is one of the five richest in the world today
Photo: Paul Archuleta / Getty Images
Alabaster skin, narrow gray-blue eyes, the white hair trimmed back in dynamic short hair swings.
It is medium in size, slim and angular.
The dress long, black, streaked with silver, slit on the side, paused with surgeon's precision at the last moment;
after all, more would not be ladylike.
The large-format bling-bling from the well-known noble clunker house also catches the eye.
A grande dame, without a doubt.
But this look !, so ambiguously challenging, as if she could dash off as an easy rider.
"Maye Musk".
You swallowed the surname, calculating?
In any case, one is forced to ask: Musk, how ... mmh, Elon Musk?
How often has she been asked about a connection to the legendary Tesla boss, PayPal investor and SpaceX founder.
She examines the person opposite, explains more casually than triumphantly: "I am his mother." And knows: That fits.
Karlie Kloss, Lady Gaga, Gigi Hadid, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, meanwhile, are driving the photographers into click-click madness.
It's St. Nicholas Eve 2016. The Fashion Awards are given in London's Royal Albert Hall, the fashion corporations bring everything they have to offer in terms of large artillery to their annual top event, eccentricity, models, talk of the town.
Diversity has long been a part of comme il faut, not just in terms of skin color, body size, sexuality, age is also in demand.
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