Brooke Shields has all the time opened up her extensive closet to her daughters, so when it got here time for her highschool graduation, Grier Hammond Henchy seized the chance to bring back a special dress of her mom’s, who once said, “Nothing is off limits.”
“Her graduation dress was my first wedding dress,” Shields said of the robe she wore to marry tennis ace Andre Agassi in 1997.
And although their marriage didn’t work out, Shields—who called her first husband “an excellent guy”—said the dress felt “like a giant full-circle moment” that “honors something,” adding, “I believe that’s healthy.”
Shields first wore the corseted ivory satin gown when she married the tennis player—whom she divorced in 1999 before marrying Grier’s dad, Chris Henchy, in 2001—but Grier made some changes to make the dress her own.
“We needed to re-bone it somewhat bit so it was tight and sleek,” said Grier, 18, who just began her first yr at Wake Forest University. “We took out all of the poof because I didn’t want it poofy. And we made it strapless.”
“She looked great in it,” said the 59-year-old star. “It’s such an honor once they need to wear your stuff. Normally they don’t think I’m cool.”
When Shields sat down with Oprah Winfrey as a part of Oprah Every day’s “The Life You Want” class, she shared that one among her daughters was horrified at the quantity of dust in her mom’s closet. “If you happen to’re not going to wear these things, I’m gonna wear it!” she said.
Along with the 1997 wedding gown, the school freshman and IMG model also walked the CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute red carpet in a black Richard Tyler gown that Shields wore to a 2006 ball when Grier was just six months old. She also sparkled in one among her mom’s old gold dresses earlier that yr.
In 2021, Rowan Francis Henchy—Brooke’s firstborn—selected to wear her mom’s scarlet red dress, also designed by Richard Tyler, to her highschool prom.
“I used to be downstairs in Recent York, going through a bunch of her old dresses, making a TikTok, and tried this red dress on. I didn’t really need to undergo the strategy of finding a prom dress. I used to be kinda like, ‘If we’ve got something here…’ and I discovered this red dress,” Rowan said of the dress Brooke originally wore to the 1998 Golden Globes.
