It seems like every model from the 1980s and 1990s now has a daughter rocking the runway during New York Fashion Week. From Cindy Crawford’s daughter, Kaia Gerber, to Heidi Klum, who has just started to let her 17-year-old daughter, Leni Klum, dip her toes into the modeling world, these are the next generation of major fashion names — and sometimes mother and daughter get the opportunity to rock the runway together at the same show.
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The supermodels aren’t forcing their daughters into the spotlight, they’re cautiously been introducing them to the fashion industry one show at a time — never giving them too much, too soon. Crawford was a hands-on mom when Gerber started modeling, but she made sure to teach her the ropes. “One of the things that I did and Kaia certainly has done… is, when you go to work with a photographer or designer, it is like, do your homework,” the supermodel explained to Vogue. “I want to have a language. By the time Kaia has started in the fashion industry, she was pretty well versed.” And we would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the duo walked the Spring 2018 Versace show together — what kind of research did they do?
And even if mom hasn’t modeled in a long time, they can somehow be coaxed back onto the runway if their daughters are involved (we are looking at you, Lisa Rinna). Retired or not, these moms all cut a fantastic figure during Fashion Week, so we think it should a trend for designers to have more mother-daughter duos on that catwalk. Don’t miss these amazing runway photos — and be sure to check out the cutest picture with Kimora Lee Simmons and her daughters when they were itty bitty.
