Joan Collins turned up at the Variety Power of Women: London event on June 3 in a gold sequined long-sleeved top, a black flared skirt, simple black flats and bold gold earrings. At 93, she arrived looking exactly like someone who has no interest in fading into the background.
The appearance is drawing attention now because Collins has been visible on a steady run of major public outings, including the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival last month and a presentation at the Emmys in 2024. For readers searching for Joan Collins Variety Power Women, the appeal is straightforward: she is still showing up, still dressing for the moment and still making the kind of entrance that turns a gala into a headline.
At Cannes, she wore a Stephane Rolland Haute Couture white gown with black opera gloves, a sharp contrast to the gold-and-black look she chose in London. That festival outing mattered because she had not appeared there since 2018, and it came as My Duchess premiered on the Croisette. She had also not been on screen since 2022 before signing on for the film, another reminder that her public calendar and her work life are still moving.
That is the part Collins has made plain herself. In 2024, she told that people often ask why she is still working, and she dismissed the question as “fatuous,” saying she keeps on working because she loves being busy. She added that she refuses to be defined by a number or by an age, calling that idea old-fashioned and out of step with today’s world. It is a line that fits the way she has carried herself at 93: on her own terms, and with no plan to slow down.
There is still one unanswered detail that matters for what comes next. My Duchess has premiered, but it does not yet have an official release date, leaving Collins’ latest screen project in the same place her career has so often occupied lately — visible, discussed and waiting for the next move.
