As the lead singer of the Pink Slips, Grace McKagan, Susan’s oldest daughter, is most often compared to her dad, but she’s just as comfortable in front of a camera as she is onstage, as is evident in the photos rock-loving Hedi Slimane has taken of her. Signed to IMG Talent, Grace wears flea market finds for her shows, because, she says, “I pour [fake] blood [from Party City] all over my dresses.” Offstage, she mixes vintage with high-end labels. “But I’m not a brand whore, or whatever,” she says. “I have a couple accessories that I’ll wear every day with different vintage pieces. Elegance is key.” More recently Mae McKagan has hit the catwalk. Kim Shui cast mother and Mae for her spring 2024 show.
Vanessa Paradis and Lily-Rose Depp
Celia Forner and Allegra Venturi
Photo: Matias Nieto / Getty Images; Photo: Courtesy of Celia Forner Venturi / @celyvent
The Valencia, Spain–born Celia Forner was the winner of Ford’s 1987 Super Model of the Year contest. The dark-haired beauty, once photographed by Helmut Newton and Andrea Blanch for Vogue, is now a London-based jewelry designer married to the Italian photographer, writer, and book publisher Francesco Venturi. Daisy Garnett described the pair as “an absurdly glamourous couple,” in a 2010 article for the magazine featuring their Majorcan estate. Also pictured were their children Filippo and look-alike daughter Allegra Venturi, an art lover who has been spotted front row at Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta Moda show.
Kristen McMenamy and Lily McMenamy
Esmé Marshall and Rachel Roberts
Named after the heroine of a J.D. Salinger story, Esmé Marshall was discovered selling socks in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a Mademoiselle editor. Dubbed “the energy girl” by that magazine, Esmé met Calvin Klein at Studio 54 and soon found herself starring in his denim campaign. Two American Vogue covers would follow, and four children, one of whom, Rachel Roberts, who goes by Ray, has chosen to follow her mother’s career path. (Rachel’s parents met at a Perry Ellis show after the designer scouted and cast John Roberts, a professional volleyball player, in an airport in Italy.) For Rachel, a career in front of the camera was “a nonissue.” “I feel like my mom kept in contact with Ford and [when I was 12 or 13] I just started working,” explains Rachel. “I was really happy because I wanted to make money and I was always really independent and I wanted to travel, so it worked out.” What did Rachel learn from her mother about modeling? How “to walk a runway with books on my head.”
Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger
Suzie Cave and Earl Cave
Renée Toft Simonsen and Ulrikke Toft Simonsen
The winner of Ford’s 1982 Face of the Eighties model contest, Renée Toft Simonsen, a blue-eyed Dane, became one of the most sought-after faces of the decade. She appeared on the cover of Roxy Music’s Atlantic Years album and landed five American Vogue covers. Duran Duran’s John Taylor saw one of these magazines and fell for her looks; the two soon met through a mutual friend and eventually became engaged, finally splitting around the time that Renée decided to quit modeling and return to Denmark, where she became a psychologist and author.
