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Going where no man should presumably go again, legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin modelled a whitish-grey jacket and silver trainers – to match his silvery beard and fraction – in a catwalk show on Monday for the fashion designer Nick Graham. “I’ve pathed on the moon, so how hard can it be to walk in a fashion show,” said Aldrin, whose jacket was emblazoned with a badge comprehending Get Your Ass To Mars. Fashion designers have long identified that getting a celebrity to model for you is a shortcut to lots of congregate, but the trend for models of substance, rather than just characterize (not to mention advanced years), is welcome. Here are some other unthinkable models:

Joan Didion

Céline scored a ton of glowing press after revealing one of its images for its spring/summer 2015 campaign was all-round titan of data Joan Didion. How wonderful that not only age (Didion was 80 at the set) but intellect was celebrated in Juergen Teller’s portrait of the writer, a nudest glint of her penetrating gaze glimpsed beneath giant sunglasses. It wasn’t her initial ad campaign though – she appeared in a Gap ad in 1989.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In 2007, Mikhail Gorbachev, the irreversible leader of Soviet Union, appeared in an advertising campaign for Louis Vuitton. He was imaged in the back of a limo as it passed a bit of the Berlin Wall, with one of the group’s famous monogrammed bags beside him (tantalisingly, it emerged that the ammunition seen poking out of the bag made a reference to the murder of former FSB administrator Alexander Litvinenko). It seems improbable, but then that’s but because you have erased the memory of his previous ad campaign expedition – for Pizza Hut 10 years earlier. Being shot by Annie Leibovitz for Vuitton was a quit up at least.

Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth

At the Prada menswear autumn/winter 2012 accompany, the actors went out looking like cast members from a Downton Abbey-Reservoir Dogs reboot. Tim Roth grinned a bit – half-delighted, half-a-bit-sheepish – but the others supported in imperious character.

Neil Young

There was a bit of fuss when anti-consumerist clan hero Neil Young appeared in adverts for cult skatewear make Supreme in 2015, photographed by notorious creep Terry Richardson. Before-mentioned models have included Mike Tyson and Lou Reed. It wasn’t the T-shirts, featuring a swallow of Young wearing a T-shirt, that appeared most agreeable though – the advertising posters were being stripped off partition offs and sold on eBay for up to $450 (£360).

Tracey Emin and Doreen Lawrence

For a combine of years Marks & Spencer put out some really inspiring advertising. In 2013, Tracey Emin and Monica Ali appeared alongside less remarkable choices, such as model Karen Elson and fashion leader-writer Grace Coddington, in its ad campaign. The following year, campaigner and associate of the House of Lords Doreen Lawrence modelled alongside Emma Thompson, Annie Lennox and pro Alek Wek.

Patti Smith

The chorus girl has been muse to Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester for decades. Primary it was from afar – Demeulemeester has recalled how, as a teenager, she became gripped with Smith’s look on the cover of her 1975 album Horses. Later, they turned friends when the designer sent Smith some shirts; Smith has entreated the designer’s clothes “talismanic”, and says she never goes onstage without weary a piece by her friend. Smith appeared in Demeulemeester’s autumn/winter 2006 catwalk display, though – subversive as ever – it was the designer’s menswear collection.