- Melinda Gates, 59, and her youngest daughter wore NYFW outfits
- The pair were photographed dressed up before the Michael Kors show at Domino Park in Brooklyn on Monday.
- Gates’ youngest daughter, Phoebe Gates, 20, is an up-and-coming fashion entrepreneur and is currently in the process of launching a fashion platform.
Melinda Gates, 59, and her youngest daughter Phoebe, 20, looked every bit the part as they arrived at the Michael Kors show during New York Fashion Week on Monday.
The mother-daughter duo posed for several glamorous photos, both side by side and alone, as they walked the pre-show carpet.
Melinda wore a hugging dark green dress with a similarly toned shrug, blocky black heels, loose curls and natural makeup while attending the show in Brooklyn’s Domino Park. was.
Phoebe, a Stanford University student and aspiring fashion entrepreneur, wore a plunging red dress, strappy sandals, a red bag, bold red lips, and a dramatic side part to her jet black hair. combined.
After several years in the spinning world of high fashion and fashion journalism, it’s no surprise to see the youngest Gates child showing up at New York Fashion Week.
Over the past few years, Phoebe has attended fashion week shows and parties in Paris and New York. She also spent a summer interning at British Vogue.
Most recently, Phoebe and her college roommate are launching a sustainable fashion platform called Phia, which they frequently promote on Instagram. She has over 300,000 followers on her social media platforms.
Although the product is not yet precisely defined, the two students have already secured coveted partnerships with top sustainability-focused designers like Stella McCartney.
Phoebe has previously described herself as a “reproductive rights activist” and is studying human biology at school.
Phoebe is the youngest of three children born to Melinda Gates’ marriage to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Phoebe’s net worth is around $10 million, much of which is probably due to her wealthy parents.
Melinda Gates broke up with Bill two years ago. Her net worth is approximately $10 billion. The mother of three and grandmother of one looked confident and cool when she showed up at NYFW on Monday.
While in New York, Melinda may have stopped by to visit her first daughter Jennifer Gates, who gave birth to a baby girl earlier this year, less than two years after her beautiful upstate wedding to professional equestrian Nayel Nassar. There is also gender.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the pair had moved into a $51 million penthouse in lower Manhattan that was previously owned by F1 star Lewis Hamilton.
At 8,900 square feet with 3,400 square feet of outdoor space, this apartment is the largest of the Starry Sky luxury apartments at 443 Greenwich Street.
After owning it for four years, Hamilton thought he wouldn’t move, but he sold it in 2021. It was sold to a Seattle trust for just over the list price of $49.5 million.
Since their high-stakes split, Bill and Melinda are both reportedly dating new partners.
Bill, 67, has been spotted numerous times with Paula Hurd, 60, the ex-wife of Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who passed away in October 2019.
Melinda, who described her divorce from the software billionaire as “incredibly painful,” has reportedly been seeing former Fox reporter John Dupre, 63, since last year.
When the Gateses were still a couple, they famously said they would do everything they could to give their children a normal life despite the unusual circumstances.
Bill has previously announced that he is interested in educating his children to do things for themselves. He pledged a small amount of money to each organization and the rest to the foundation that bears his name.
“Our children will receive a great education and some money so they will never live in poverty, but they will go out into the workforce and build their own careers,” Gates said.
“Giving children enormous wealth is not good for them. It distorts all their actions and creates their own path.”
The former couple may have tried to raise their children as modestly as possible, but their living conditions were anything but simple. The family grew up in a $131 million mansion in Medina, Washington, which included seven bathrooms, 24 bathrooms, and six kitchens. , which also features its own artificial beach, in-home movie theater, gym, and trampoline room.
The property, worth an estimated $131 million, has been nicknamed “Xanadu 2.0” after the fictional property featured in the movie “Citizen Kane.”