Katie Holmes has been hailed as a fashion icon since her Dawson’s Creek days – and has been one of the undisputed street style queens since the late 90s – but it seems daughter Suri Cruise is also busy forging her own sartorial identity.
The actress, 45, opened up about sharing her clothes with daughter Suri, 18, in a new interview with The Times. Katie revealed that her only child, who is estranged from her A-list father Tom Cruise, is beginning to develop a unique sense of style and her “own expressions” as she prepares to move to Pennsylvania for college this fall.
Quizzed whether she intends to pass down her wardrobe to Suri, Katie said: “I mean, I’ve saved some things here and there. But she has her own sense of style and her own expressions.”
She added: “Sometimes the basics definitely disappear. But that’s fine.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Katie was asked whether becoming a mother had affected her personal sense of style over the years.
“I feel like, in some ways, yes. When my child was really small I was drawn to wearing a lot of dresses,” she told the paper.
“You do go through these different phases of motherhood and they inform what you feel comfortable in and what you don’t. So over the years, my style has changed here and there.”
Suri goes to college
This fall will mark a big change for Suri, who has secured a place at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ever since Katie’s highly-publicised divorce from Top Gun star Tom Cruise in July 2012, Katie and her daughter Suri have been a tight-knit unit, leading a private life together in NYC.
The high school graduate, who was pictured enjoying a bike ride around the city this week, is gearing up to pursue a career in fashion.
She has secured a coveted place at Carnegie Mellon’s prestigious School of Design, one of the oldest and most highly regarded programs in the country.
Passion for fashion
Clearly a love of design and fashion runs in the family. Katie’s mother Kathleen ran a successful drapery business and has passed on her love of fashion to Katie, and now Suri.
Chatting to InStyle, the Batman Begins actress declared: “My mother had a very successful drapery business, but then when I was born — I was a lot of work. [laughs] So she gave it up.
“But my mom is an incredible quilter, and one of my sisters is an art teacher, so I grew up with that.”
She offered an insight into Suri’s interest in style, saying: “I’ve always wanted Suri to feel empowered [in that way] too.
“I remember asking her what kind of party she wanted for her fourth or fifth birthday, and she said a fairy party.
“So we went to the fabric store and picked out everything we needed for fairies. I wanted her to create things instead of having stuff done for her. That way she was always in charge.”
When it comes to Katie’s personal style, she admits to feeling happiest happiest when she’s in a vintage T-shirt and jeans.
Sustainability is always at the forefront of her mind, and we reckon daughter Suri is into thrifting second-hand fits too given her recent boho chic appearances.
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