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Along Came Polly.(Polly Mellen)
Byline: Photographed by Eric Boman
Who says age alters an active life? Marina Rust catches up with the fit and feisty 84-year-old fashion legend Polly Mellen.
Oh, you're going to have fun, " says everyone who's ever worked with the iconic Polly Mellen when they learn I am planning a visit to her Kent, Connecticut, home. After 28 years as a fashion editor at VOGUE and eight more as creative director of Allure, Mellen is now retired, but not retiring. At 84 and a trim size 8, she still downhill skis. She strength-trains daily. She studiously tends to her idyllic mountainside garden. "This weekend is simply jammed," she says when I call to schedule my trip, ...
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