There’s no denying that mothers are real-life superheroes. If you're a celebrity, you look after your family whilst pursuing your own lucrative careers, going from the morning school run to the film set and back, all in a day’s work. And with the watchful and often scrutinising eyes of the whole world on them, somehow, they manage to do it with sartorial flair too.
The modern celebrity mums we look to today for style inspiration and their individual aesthetics are wide-ranging, encapsulating all the branches and variations of a contemporary parent’s off-duty or smart-casual wardrobes. From Julia Fox and Rihanna’s unequivocally bold, streetwear styles to the laid-back, chic-suburbia looks of Jennifer Lopez and Katie Holmes, we know now more than ever that there’s no one “right” way to be a mum, or dress like one.
Whether it’s model Irina Shayk doing the daily morning school drop off dressed in elevated trench coats, leather pants and topless jacket combos, or Kate Moss in a modest yet sleek slip or kaftan arm-in-arm with her daughter Lila Moss, there’s a plethora of different celebrity mums with vastly different parenthood wardrobes that we can glean ideas off of—and be assured that whatever kind of mum you want to be, and mum style you want to have, there’s a modern celebrity mum out there’s who trail-blazed the way forward.
Ahead, check out all our favourite modern celebrity mums for your ultimate style inspiration.
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