QUando are girls, it is easy to see them transformed into small copies of their mothers, dressed in coordinated looks and details by “mini me”. But growing, the parties are reversed: today It is the daughters of the celebrities who browse in the wardrobesselecting iconic clothes that have marked crucial moments of the career of mothers. It is not any of any leaders, but of Archive pieces that return to the limelight today on the most important red carpet.
An increasingly widespread trend in the star system, where it “Vintage shopping” in the house wardrobe It is charged with an emotional, symbolic and obviously stylistic value. Daughters that steal the looks from the star mothers: the new trend.
A journey into the mother wardrobe
There are those who fish from 90s And who from the first two thousand, but the principle is the same: to put it back in circulation loads of memory and style. Eva Amurri, For example, he dusted off a transparent dress by Donna Karan that his mother, Susan Sarandon, He wore at 2003 Oscars. Valentina Pinault, daughter of Salma Hayek, He trod the red carpet of the Oscars with an Isaac Mizrahi dress worn by his mother in 1997, when she was not yet born. AND Kaia Gerber paid tribute to the mother Cindy Crawford By reinterpreting, for the Toronto Film Festival, the famous white dress signed by Hervé Leber sported by the 1993 Oscar supermodel. It is not only nostalgia, it is tailored storytelling.
Kaia Gerber with the white bandage in bandage signed Hervé Léger on the red carpet of the TIFF 2024. Getty images
Who wears it best? Generational question
Often the comparison is inevitable. Jessica Alba, who left white paper to the daughters Honor And Haven To choose your looks from an old clothes archive Prada And Sweet & Gabbana, He admitted: “They wear them better than me”. And while Shiloh And Zahara Jolie-Pitt alternate Elie Saab and Gabriela Hearst directly from the closet of Angelina, Carys Zeta Douglas has chosen for her 21 years a satin dress with floral embroidery that Catherine Zeta-Jones had worn in 1999. The same elegance, new styling.
The pink satin lingerie dress with floral details was sported by Catherine Zeta-Jones at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards. Twenty-five years later. Getty Images and Instagram: @Carys.Douglas
Family vintage: the dress as a style inheritance
It seems that time has stopped, as well as the trends, in seeing the daughters to wear the garments that made the history of their mothers. As Rowan Henchy who chose the 1998 red Golden Globe dress of Brooke Shields for your year -end dance, or Coco Arquette who brought to light a flower dress worn by mom Courteney Cox in 1998.
AND When the daughters not inheritthe mothers who are inspired: Carole Middleton, for example, borrowed a Bubblegum pink dress from her daughter Kate For Royal Ascot. Turn fashion, in all verses!
A trend that combines generations, rewrites memories and shows that, sometimes, real luxury is kept in the family wardrobe.