Like mother like daughter!
Chic taste must be genetic, because these celebrity mini-mes can’t get enough of their parents’ wardrobes, and the nostalgia is real. Fashion-forward moms like Heidi Klum, Lisa Rinna and Victoria Beckham are passing on archived staples to their all-grown-up girls. And on the flip side, stylish daughters like Blake Lively and Bella Hadid are paying it forward and opening their closets to the women to whom they owe it all.
See the duos bridging their generation gaps with a shared sense of style.
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Susan Sarandon & Eva Amurri
As if it wasn’t fun enough that Jessica Alba brought her two daughters (including Haven, 12) to the premiere of her new film Trigger Warning, she also let them shop her archives for the event.
Throwing it back all the way to ‘07 and ‘10 in the sweetest way ever 🥹,” she wrote on Instagram. “…Havie wore my @dolcegabbana dress from Comicon for Good Luck Chuck in 2010 🖤.”
Speaking to PEOPLE in Sept. 2024, Alba explained how the girls ended up in her clothes.
“It was my idea, because I didn’t want to go and get them a dress for one night, you know? I was like, ‘Would you guys wear these dresses? I picked them out. I think they would look really cute on you, but I mean, if you don’t like them [it’s okay]’,” she recalled. “I think they both thought that they wore it better — which, by the way, they did. True story.”
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Jessica Alba & Honor Warren
At the same event, Honor, 16, sported a checked A-line Prada number previously seen on her mom in 2007 at the Valentine’s Day premiere.
“I loooove seeing my girls wear some of my archived pieces and adding their own touch 🫶🏽 #FashionFriday,” Alba wrote.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones & Carys Zeta Douglas
Turning 21 is even more fun when you can dip into your mom’s considerable closet for the perfect party dress. Carys Zeta Douglas picked a pink satin slip dress with lace details and floral embroidery last worn by her mom Catherine Zeta-Jones at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards for her milestone celebration.
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Busy Philipps & Birdie Silverstein
Busy Philipps may have purged a ton in her post-divorce garage sale, but luckily for daughter Birdie, she held onto this killer Betsey Johnson dress from the ’90s — and Birdie then got to wear the vintage piece to an Olivia Rodrigo concert years later.
” please enjoy the side by side of me at age 19 and birdie last night in the same dress- YES ITS TRUE WE LOOK V SIMILAR 😭💜❤️” Philipps captioned the shot of the two sporting the same crushed-velvet-and-lace number.
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Brooke Shields & Grier Henchy
What better way to honor your mom at her cabaret act premiere than to raid her closet — right? Grier Henchy, 17, borrowed the beige lace square-neck gown from Brooke Shields’ closet, 22 years after its initial wear.
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Apple Martin & Gwyneth Paltrow
When one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Instagram followers asked, “Does Apple ever wear any of your fashion archives?” she let photographic evidence speak for itself. The Goop founder posted a snap of her 19-year-old wearing the iconic Alexander McQueen gown Paltrow wore to the Academy Awards in 2002.
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Salma Hayek & Valentina Pinault
The mother-daughter pair stunned in complementary red looks at the 2023 Oscars, but one detail in particular made the style moment even more special: The 15-year-old was wearing her mom’s Isaac Mizrahi gown that she originally wore years before her daughter was even born, in 1997.
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Kate Middleton & Carole Middleton
It’s not every day that you get to shop in the closet of a princess — unless, of course, you happen to be that princess’s mother. For Royal Ascot in 2022, Carole borrowed the cute bubblegum-pink dress by ME + EM from her daughter, the Duchess of Cambridge, who initially wore it for a visit with Mila Sneddon, a 5-year-old girl with leukemia.
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Heidi Klum & Leni Klum
Need any more proof the ’90s are back? Check out the little black prom dress Leni lifted from her supermodel mom’s closet in 2022, first worn to a Comic Relief event in 1998.
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Angelina Jolie & Zahara Jolie-Pitt
Fashion fades, but style is Eternals! The actress’ 16-year-old daughter borrowed an Elie Saab Couture gown right out of mom’s fashion archives — last seen on the 2014 Oscars red carpet — to wear to a 2021 premiere of The Eternals, in which Jolie starred.
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Angelina Jolie & Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
Zahara isn’t the only teen shopping her mom’s closet: Shiloh, 15, nabbed a tan Gabriela Hearst dress Jolie wore earlier that summer for the same Eternals premiere.
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Victoria Beckham & Harper Beckham
The perks of having a fashion designer for a mom: Getting to shop her closet before you even hit high school! Harper was snapped on vacation with her family in Italy in 2021 wearing what appeared to be the lace-trimmed orchid dress from the Victoria Beckham line that her mom wore on Instagram the month before.
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Brooke Shields & Rowan Henchy
Golden girls! The actress dug out the strapless scarlet dress she wore to the 1998 Golden Globes so her daughter could wear it to prom in 2021.
“I thought it was a special night when I was nominated for a Golden Globe and wore this dress in 1998, but nothing could have prepared me to see my daughter wearing it to her prom,” Shields captioned the Instagram.
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Lisa Rinna & Delilah Belle Hamlin
Everything old is blue again, as proved by the Real Housewives star’s oldest daughter in 2021 as she tried on the vintage Versace her mom wore to the Academy Awards while pregnant with her in 1998.
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Lisa Rinna & Amelia Gray Hamlin
Was Rinna cleaning out her closet? The day before, her younger daughter shared that she was thrilled to inherit this vintage Alaïa gown from her mom.
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Heather Locklear & Ava Sambora
In 2020, Ava Sambora (left) shared photos of herself wearing her mom’s old Bon Jovi shirt, captioning them in an Instagram post, “I got it from my mama (Like I literally got this shirt from my mom’s closet 🤪).”
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Ava — whose dad is Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora — also shared a shot of Locklear clad in the same top from 20 years ago in her post.
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Yolanda Hadid & Gigi Hadid
Just one day after the supermodel stepped out wearing this cozy Naked Cashmere turtleneck and joggers in 2019, her mom snagged the set and wore it herself for a day out in N.Y.C.
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Yolanda Hadid & Bella Hadid
Yolanda takes her Model Mama status very seriously, as she proved by rocking the sexy Kiini two-piece her daughter sported one summer.
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Chrissy Teigen & Vilailuck Teigen
It’s no surprise that the mom of clapback queen Chrissy is an expert-level troll herself. In 2019 Vilailuck posted a shot to her Instagram of herself wearing Chrissy’s 16Arlington dress and wrote “So Who wore better?” to which the model responded, “oh my god you dork.”
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Courteney Cox & Coco Arquette
The purple floral dress Coco borrowed from her mom’s closet may officially be classified as “vintage” (Courteney first wore it to the 1998 premiere of Snake Eyes), but on the 14 year old, it looks brand-new. “I’m not one to hold onto things but this was a damn good purchase! 21 years later…” Courteney wrote on Instagram in 2019.
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Ramona Singer & Avery Singer
Though the Real Housewives of New York star has been accused of stealing dresses in the past, daughter Avery, 23, actually took this out of her mom’s closet: “Thanks @ramonasinger for the outfit” she wrote on Instagram in 2017. (Ramona borrowed it right back, though, wearing it on the infamous boat trip in Cartagena.)
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Lili Reinhart & Amy Reinhart
The Riverdale star rocked a look straight out of her mom’s closet for Marie Claire’s Fresh Faces event in 2018. She gave mom Amy a shoutout on her Instagram Story for lending the strappy, rosette-adorned pink number, writing, “Thanks for letting me borrow your dress, Mom.”
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Blake Lively & Elaine Lively
Elaine Lively gave daughter her good genes, and the actress returned the favor by inviting her mom to the Marchesa show, then lending her a fabulous Ralph Lauren poncho to wear to it.
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Kim Kardashian & Kris Jenner
The Kardashians are very candid about their open-closet policy, and that extends to mom Kris Jenner (here in her daughter’s Donna Karan dress), who has raided Kim’s closet on more than one occasion.
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Cindy Crawford & Kaia Gerber
There are many perks to having a supermodel mom. Inheriting her looks is one of them, and inheriting her amazing wardrobe is another. Kaia Gerber (then 13) gets to borrow her mom’s pieces (including this Roberto Cavalli) for backyard photo shoots whenever she pleases.
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Nicole Richie & Harlow Madden
This is a role reversal: a celeb mom squeezing into her kid’s clothes: Nicole, who repurposed her then-6-year-old daughter’s coat to serve as a cropped jacket for a 2014 event. “Thanks for letting me borrow your jacket Harlow” she wrote on Instagram.
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Sarah Palin & Bristol Palin
If Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL 40 gave you déja vu, it’s not because Tina Fey was there too. It’s because she repurposed this sequin white mini dress her 24-year-old daughter wore in 2011.
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Ivanka Trump & Ivana Trump
“A daughter’s never too old to clandestinely raid her mother’s closet! Shhh…!” Ivanka wrote on a 2014 snapshot of herself sporting mom Ivana’s vintage (and very glittery) Bob Mackie from 1991.
Source: People
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