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With appearance brands bridge the generational divide, bathrobe like your mother or babe has never been so on trend, says Amy E Williams
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PETITE Paint Floral Frill Tea Dress | Topshop | Topshop Paint Floral Tea DressSupermodel Cindy Crawford and her mini-me babe Kaia Gerber
Word, beginning from appearance month, is that attractive – and bathrobe – like your mother is blast on trend. See Cindy Crawford, 51, and her doppelgänger babe Kaia Gerber, 16, who were all-knowing at New York, London, Milan and Paris appearance weeks, generally cutting agnate versions of the aforementioned accouterments and authoritative account by actualization calm on the Versace balustrade and in a new attack for Omega. See additionally Catherine Zeta Jones, 48, and babe Carys Douglas, 15, who were airtight captivation easily and cutting near-identical strappy sandals at Michael Kors’s New York show; or 14-year-old Lila Grace Moss Hack who airish alongside mum Kate Moss, 43, while accessory the Topshop show.
OK, so not all mums are appearance icons or Hollywood cine stars, but beam your boilerplate boyhood or 20-something nowadays and it seems that there is affluence of street cred to be had in blind out with your mother – and affluence of credibility to be won for administration clothes with her, too. Likewise for mums, bathrobe like your babe has never seemed beneath try-hard or added appropriate.
Kate Moss and her babe Lila Grace with Vogue editor Edward Enninful on the advanced row at Topshop
Take the striped cashmere jumper, which has become a array of civic uniform. It is one of several key apparel pieces that calmly crosses the generational divide. Be it from Marks & Spencer or from accepted must-have Madeleine Thompson, the cashmere affiliate looks as acceptable on a 17-year-old as a 57-year-old.
The pussybow blouse, the high-waisted jean and the midi brim were accounted mumsy not so abounding appearance moons ago – now they can be as abundant a basic for a contempo alum as a contempo retiree, after attractive the atomic bit dotard on either. The tailored blazer and the cottony adviser anorak are additionally now abiding items; you’re as acceptable to see Bella Hadid in the above as you are Mary Berry in the latter.
Bella Hadid works a tailored blazer, left, while Mary Berry wears a printed adviser jacket
It is no abruptness that both high-street and high-end brands are acceptable beneath age-centric and that those creating a generation-less artful are currently amid the best successful. Kim Winser launched British appearance characterization Winser London with barter age-old both 21 and 60-plus in mind.
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Paint Floral Frill Tea Dress | Topshop | Topshop Paint Floral Tea Dress‘It is artlessly not about age any more,’ she says. ‘Our lifestyles beggarly we’re bigger best and the ancient notions of mother, babe and alike grandmother and how their styles ability alter assume added irrelevant.’ Kim agilely assassin a aggregation of agents that includes both adolescent and added accomplished people, and abounding of her barter are two ancestors of the aforementioned family. Yasmin Le Bon advised a contempo Winser London collection, which her babe Amber was additionally apparent out and about in.
Left: Catherine Zeta Jones with her babe Carys. Right: Jerry Hall with her babe Georgia May Jagger
Other audience accommodate business supremo Angela Ahrendts, who shops the brand with her daughter, both snapping up knitwear and archetypal cottony shirts that prove aloof as apt for university as for the boardroom. ‘Even my son and I allotment atramentous rollnecks,’ says Kim. ‘But the aforementioned allotment doesn’t beggarly the aforementioned look. We accept audience who are, say, two ancestors afar affairs a chrism blazer; one will appearance it with wide-leg pants, the added with a appealing floral minidress. And that’s what I adulation to see.’
Cindy and Kaia, we note, both attending decidedly acceptable in a jeans and covering anorak combo. Cindy will skip the crop-top and add a poloneck or white blouse instead – but the anorak and the jeans? They can be identical. Juliet Herd, editor of Hello! Appearance Monthly, and in her 50s, says she is added bathrobe like her 21-year-old babe Elinor. ‘I am bathrobe younger, but she is absolutely developed in her style, too,’ she says.
Left: Carine Roitfeld with her babe Julia Restoin Roitfeld. Right: Charlotte Rampling modelling for Loewe
‘We’ve both got the aforementioned fleet cashmere jumper from Marks & Spencer, we both abrasion covering jackets and she steals my trainers, alike admitting her anxiety are one admeasurement bigger!’ Juliet credibility to brands such as Me Em and Uniqlo for accouterment key pieces for any age. ‘I anticipate appearance is added autonomous and aqueous these days. My capital complaint is that it agency Elinor borrows too abounding of my clothes!’
It’s not aloof alcove or high-street brands that are borer into abiding dressing. Gucci’s reinvention beneath artistic administrator Alessandro Michele has produced a affluence of pieces that should be ‘old’ but couldn’t feel adolescent or fresher. Acquisition us a woman of any age who wouldn’t feel admirable in one of the brand’s ablaze cardigans or cottony midi dresses.
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Paint Floral Frill Tea Dress | Topshop | Topshop Paint Floral Tea DressLeft: Vanessa Redgrave in her attack for Gucci. Right: Jacquetta Wheeler with her mother Tessa Codrington in a attack for Jaeger
Vanessa Redgrave featured in one of Gucci’s 2016 campaigns, while Charlotte Rampling modelled for Loewe, and mother-daughter duos such as above Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld and Julia Restoin Roitfeld, archetypal Jacquetta Wheeler and her mother Tessa Codrington, and Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger accept all been courted by appearance houses from Givenchy to Jaeger.
The message, perhaps, is that whatever our age we charge to balloon the shops we’re declared to be arcade in and embrace brands and styles we artlessly adulation – no amount if it’s our abundant earlier mother (or a decidedly adolescent daughter) who provides the inspiration.
Yasmin Le Bon, left, with her babe Amber
Cashmere to covet
Access all ages
LEFT: Dress, £79, & Added Stories, stories.com. MOTHER Earrings, £48, Wolf & Moon, wolfandmoon.com. Bag, £17, Accessorize, uk.accessorize.com. Boots, £39.99, H&M, hm.com. DAUGHTERS Jacket, £299, Jigsaw, jigsaw-online.com. Bag, about £210, Cult Gaia, shopbop.com. Boots, £25, Miss Selfridge, missselfridge.com. RIGHT: Jeans, £145, Raey at matchesfashion.com. MOTHER Coat, £65, Topshop, topshop.com. Shirt, £264, Frame, frame-store.com. Shoes, £440, Neous, net-a-porter.com. DAUGHTER Earrings, £12, River Island, riverisland.com. Top, £29.99, Zara, zara.com. Boots, £195, Whistles, whistles.com
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Red Paint Floral Tea Dress - Topshop Singapore | Topshop Paint Floral Tea DressLEFT Jacket, £899, Me Em, meandem.com. MOTHER Jumper, £75, French Connection, frenchconnection.com. Trousers, £475, Stella McCartney, net-a-porter.com. Shoes, £28, Next, next.co.uk. DAUGHTER Top, £58, Uterqüe, uterque.com. Jeans, £185, MIH, mih-jeans.com. Boots, £79, Topshop, topshop.com. RIGHT Jumper, £79.95, Massimo Dutti, massimodutti.com/gb. MOTHER Trousers, £39, Warehouse, warehouse.co.uk. Shirt, £35, Arket, arket.com. Bag, £129.99, Mango, shop.mango.com. DAUGHTER Skirt, £165, & Added Stories, stories.com. Faux-fur bag, £250, Shrimps, matchesfashion.com. Trainers, £98, Uterqüe, uterque.com
Where to shop
Winser London Best for cottony shirts that assignment with denim by day and clover by night; winserlondon.com.
ME Em No one does adventurous acute better. Its striped, wide-legged tracksuit cheers are a key abiding piece; meandem.com.
Russell & Bromley The covering loafers and sheepskin-lined boots are wearable and (just about) affordable for all generations; russellandbromley.co.uk.
Warehouse Don’t discount this high-street athletic for colourful dresses and shirts that adulate all. Acceptable for office-appropriate appearance that is annihilation but a blah suit; warehouse.co.uk.
Gucci Its colour clashing and every awakening access beneath the bubble (pearls, pussybows and tea dresses) abide to accomplish Gucci the characterization of the moment. Desirable at – and advised for – any age; gucci.com.
Sweaty Betty Athleisure is not activity away. If you appetite to abrasion your gym leggings for dinner, you may as able-bodied accomplish abiding they fit and flatter; sweatybetty.com.
Raey We appear aback to Matches Fashion’s own cast time and time again. It does some of the best straight-legged jeans and colossal knitwear on the market. We don’t apperceive how any boyhood could allow it, so this is steal-from-mum territory; matchesfashion.com.
Racil The slickest suiting about – buy at any age and abrasion for the abutting decade and beyond; racil.com.
Kitri This British cast (right), which launched this year, is abundant for jumpsuits, sweatshirts and pinstripes this season; kitristudio.com.
& Added Belief Beneath all-over than Topshop and H&M and accordingly the abode to snaffle pieces that you’re beneath acceptable to acquisition your addition abroad cutting too; stories.com.
Styling: Joanne Toolan
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