2017’s Most Beautiful Women … Seasoned Beauties

What makes a woman beautiful? As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And as People names Julia Roberts the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2017 we thought we’d share some of our picks for the most beautiful women living today. Please recognize that this list is in no way exhaustive. The world is full of beautiful women….in all shapes, sizes and colors. So, to keep it all manageable, we’re going to break our list of favorites into age groups and we’ll present it in a series. Here’s our stab at a list of 2017’s Most Beautiful Women…

2017’s Most Beautiful Women- Seasoned Beauties

“So much has been said and sung about beautiful young girls. Why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?” – Harriet Beecher Stowe.

We’re awake! And we get it! As these gals in their sixties, seventies and eighties will prove, beauty does endure.

Coco Chanel once said “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at 40 & irresistible for the rest of your life.” We couldn’t agree more. But, as our list of octogenarians will attest, you can still be gorgeous into your eighties. These beautiful women are living life out loud, celebrating their eighties and proving to the world that beauty is, in fact, ageless.

SOPHIA LOREN

The Italian actress Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone) posing with a fur hood. She is in Cinecitta trying on costumes for the film The Fall of the Roman Empire. Rome, December 1962 (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Sophia 2015 Dolce and Gabbana ad featuring Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren continues to be vivacious and stylish

CARMEN DELL’OREFICE

Carmen Dell’Orefice seated on a lucite chair modeling an embaaeolian natural grey taupe mutation mink designed by Emilio Schuberth of Rome and diamond jewelry by Harry Winston.

Carmen Dell’Orefice 2017 World’s Most Beautiful Women

85 year old Carmen Dell’Orefice closes the Guo Pei spring 2017 couture show. DAMN!

DIHANN CARROLL

Young and glamourous Diahann Caroll

Diahann Carroll in her ‘Dynasty” days was a fashionable force to reckon with

Diane Carroll at the 2016 American Black Film Festival Life In Film Awards

DINA MERRILL

Dina Merrill 2017 World’s Most Beautiful Women

Dina Merrill in The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries (1979)

Recent sighting of Dina

RITA MORENO

Rita Moreno 2017 World’s Most Beautiful Women

The 2015 Kennedy Center Honors paid tribute to, from left, actress Cicely Tyson, conductor Seiji Ozawa, actress and singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas and singer-songwriter Carole King at a Washington reception. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Getty Images)

Rita Moreno talks “One Day at a Time” remake on CBS Morning News in January 2017

JOAN COLLINS

Joan Collins in 1978. Our final pick for 2017’s World’s Most Beautiful Women

Joan Collins as the “beloved” Alexis Carrington

Dame Jone Collins at her home in Los Angeles

“I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you’ll be fine” – Betty Dodson, American Sex Educator and author of “Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving”

Betty Dodson, American Sex Educator and author of “Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving”

In my mind’s eye my grandmother will live on perennially as she was in her seventies. I suppose that is because I remember her most as she appeared in my teen years. She was a beautiful woman, frequently told she looked just like Helen Hayes. But there was no mistaking it…she was grandmotherly. It would be tough to say the same about our list of beauties in their seventies. These women absolutely defy age in looks as well as in spirit and energy. For them, it seems as though the clock stopped.

RAQUEL WELCH

RAQUEL WELCH ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966) her most iconic role

Raquel Welch at the Academy Awards in 1973

Raquel Welch from 2015 at the age of 75

JANE FONDA

Jane Fonda at the age of 24

Jane Fonda at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival

Jane Fonda at the 2017 Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills

CATHERINE DENEUEVE

Portrait of Catherine Deneuve by Helmut Newton, 1976

Catherine Deneuve featured in an ad campaign for Chanel No. 5 Fragrance from 1975

Catherine-Deneuve at Paris Fashion Week in 2017

TINA TURNER

UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 01: WEMBLEY ARENA Photo of Tina TURNER, Tina Turner performing on stage (Photo by Lorne Resnick/Redferns)

Tina Turner then and now

Tina Turner’s impact is so profound to this day

Tina Turner with current husband Erwin bach

SUSAN LUCCI

Susan on All My Children in 1976

Susan Lucci 2017 World’s Most Beautiful Women

Susan Lucci today at 70 seems ageless

ANN MARGARET

Ann-Margret – Once A Thief – 1965

Ann Margret

Ann Margret is almost 76 years old and is still considered a fiery sex symbol

SUSAN SARANDON

A young Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon infamously dated fellow actor Tim Robbins for many, many years

Susan Sarandon starred in the 2009 Dreamworks Paramount film The Lovely Bones

LAUREN HUTTON

Lauren Hutton created one of the best Academy Awards looks of all time in 1975

Lauren Hutton in Calvin Klein by Richard Avedon, 1970s

Lauren Hutton recently walked the runway with Gigi Hadid at the Bottega Veneta Spring 2017 Paris show

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” – Joan Collins

In today’s youth-obsessed world these insanely sexy and gorgeous women in their sixties are breaking the mold, giving the twenty-somethings of today a run for their money. More and more women of this generation are headlining fashion and beauty campaigns…and for good reason. What woman of any age wouldn’t like to look like these beauties?

BEVERLY JOHNSON