And according to the fashion search engine Tagwalk, this season has seen the greatest number of older models cast in shows yet; 42 had walked for the fall 2020 collections by the final few days of Paris Fashion Week, versus 30 for the spring 2020 collections and 31 for the fall 2019 season a year ago. With eight older models walking at Off-White, including Carolyn Murphy, 45 and Isabeli Fontana, 36, Virgil Abloh had the largest number of runway veterans in a single show.

“I don’t feel like I’ve ever stopped modeling, but I have noticed that booking requests for runway shows have really gone up lately,” said Ms. Boscano, the Italian model and muse to Riccardo Tisci, the creative director at Burberry, where she also appeared this season (bringing her total bookings this season to eight).

Perhaps it is no surprise that for fashion, age has become the next major frontier after race. (A widely adopted approach to size diversity, for now, remains a way off.) Just this week, Forbes introduced a “50 Over 50” list dedicated to women “who have achieved significant success later in life.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 79, is going toe-to-toe with President Trump, 73, while Christine Lagarde, 64, is president of the European Central Bank and the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is 61.

The ranks of women in the work force only keep growing, and that is shifting the ground for brands when it comes to the identity and the values they need to project to these consumers.