Many little girls play dress-up in their mother’s wedding gown, dreaming of someday altering the dress for a special occasion. It’s the plot of 27 Dresses. For Brooke Shields’s daughter, that dream came true, with a twist. For her high school graduation in June, Grier Henchy, daughter of Shields and Chris Henchy, chose the ivory satin dress that her mother had worn…to marry another man.
Not their first or last twinning moment!
Yes, her parents are still together, but Grier was like, “Mom, remember when you married tennis legend Andre Agassi in 1997? Can I cut the straps off that?” (paraphrasing). And it looked really good! It’s called sustainable fashion; look it up.
“Her graduation dress was my first wedding dress,” Shields just revealed to People. “We had to rebone it a little bit so it was tight and sleek. We took out all the poof because I didn’t want it poofy. And we made it strapless.
“She looked great in it,” Shields said of Grier’s graduation day. “It’s such an honor when they want to wear your stuff. Normally they don’t think I’m cool.”
Check out photos of Grier looking mega elegant at graduation here.
The iconic actor and model said that she lets Grier and her older daughter, Rowan, raid her closet on the regular. “Honestly, they can wear anything because just to have it have another life—you save the stuff and wonder why,” she said. “It’s like, some big Sotheby’s auction? I highly doubt it. Unless they’re iconic items. So when they have another life, it feels good.”
And it certainly helps that there’s apparently no ill will between Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi, who divorced in 1999. “He’s a good guy, so to me it was really like a big full-circle moment,” she said, adding, “and it honors something and I think that’s healthy.” (Their marriage was…complicated.)
The original dress was a custom creation by Heidi Weisl, per the LA Times.
