David Bridges
Brooke Shields has at all times opened up her intensive closet to her daughters, so when it got here time for her highschool commencement, Grier Hammond Henchy seized the chance to deliver again a particular costume of her mother’s, who as soon as mentioned, “Nothing is off limits.”
“Her commencement costume was my first marriage ceremony costume,” Shields mentioned of the robe she wore to marry tennis ace Andre Agassi in 1997.
And though their marriage didn’t work out, Shields—who referred to as her first husband “a superb man”—mentioned the costume felt “like a giant full-circle second” that “honors one thing,” including, “I feel that’s wholesome.”
Shields first wore the corseted ivory satin robe when she married the tennis participant—whom she divorced in 1999 earlier than marrying Grier’s dad, Chris Henchy, in 2001—however Grier made some adjustments to make the costume her personal.
“We needed to re-bone it a bit bit so it was tight and modern,” mentioned Grier, 18, who simply started her first yr at Wake Forest College. “We took out all of the poof as a result of I didn’t need it poofy. And we made it strapless.”
“She regarded nice in it,” mentioned the 59-year-old star. “It’s such an honor once they wish to put on your stuff. Usually they don’t suppose I’m cool.”
When Shields sat down with Oprah Winfrey as a part of Oprah Day by day’s “The Life You Need” class, she shared that one in every of her daughters was horrified on the quantity of mud in her mother’s closet. “If you happen to’re not going to put on these things, I’m gonna put on it!” she mentioned.
Along with the 1997 marriage ceremony robe, the school freshman and IMG mannequin additionally walked the CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute pink carpet in a black Richard Tyler robe that Shields wore to a 2006 ball when Grier was simply six months outdated. She additionally sparkled in one in every of her mother’s outdated gold attire earlier that yr.
In 2021, Rowan Francis Henchy—Brooke’s firstborn—selected to put on her mother’s scarlet pink costume, additionally designed by Richard Tyler, to her highschool promenade.
“I used to be downstairs in New York, going via a bunch of her outdated attire, making a TikTok, and tried this pink costume on. I didn’t actually wish to undergo the method of discovering a promenade costume. I used to be kinda like, ‘If now we have one thing right here…’ and I discovered this pink costume,” Rowan mentioned of the costume Brooke initially wore to the 1998 Golden Globes.
