Batsheva fashion show cast women over 40 at New York Fashion Week. Model Birgitt Doss, 67, says: "I adore! I feel freer today.

At 25, I would have said no.” Designer Barsheva Hay: “I don’t want anyone to feel like they’re trying to look younger” The New York Times met the models backstage, collecting their impressions of being on a catwalk at this time in their lives.