Gwyneth Paltrow made an announcement on the 2002 Oscars due to her gothic-inspired Alexander McQueen robe, which she has since handed right down to her daughter, Apple.
Throughout a Thursday, June 15, Instagram Story Q&A, Paltrow, 50, was requested if she ever let her 19-year-old daughter strive on any of her archival vogue items.
The Shakespeare in Love actress merely replied by importing a photograph of Apple — whom she shares with ex-husband Chris Martin, alongside son Moses, 17 — carrying the now-iconic robe inside her closet.
Paltrow first donned the ensemble on the March 2002 Academy Awards. Regardless of rampant criticism of her want to put on a sheer bodice to the awards ceremony, the Glee alum favored the look.
“All people actually hated this [dress], however I feel it’s form of dope. I’m into it,” Paltrow recalled to Vogue in an April 2021 interview for his or her “Life in Appears to be like” sequence. “I had a bizarre hangover about it for some time as a result of folks have been actually crucial.”

Left: Gwyneth Paltrow on the 2002 Academy Awards. Proper: Apple Martin tries on her mom’s gown. Hahn Lionel/ABACA/Shutterstock; Gwyneth Paltrow/Instagram
She continued: “I feel on the time it was too goth, I feel folks thought it was too arduous, so I feel it kind of shocked folks. However I prefer it.”
Paltrow, nonetheless, has since seen one deadly flaw together with her Oscars ensemble.
“There have been a number of points; I nonetheless love the gown itself however I ought to have worn a bra and I ought to have simply had easy beachy hair and fewer make-up,” the Shallow Hal actress beforehand confessed throughout a March 2013 Q&A on her Goop weblog. “Then, it might have labored as I wished it to — a bit of little bit of punk on the Oscars.”
Paltrow’s daughter has since turn out to be a fashionista in her personal proper, even making her Paris Style Week debut on the Chanel spring/summer time 2023 runway present in January. Apple surprised in a black-and-white tweed set from the style home as she watched the present from the entrance row.
Whereas {the teenager} has loved discovering her personal path, Paltrow was admittedly emotional about her firstborn leaving the nest.
“It’s been a serious transition. I didn’t know what to anticipate, however I knew it might be arduous as a result of Apple and I are so shut and have been collectively on a regular basis,” the Iron Man actress— who married Brad Falchuk in 2018 — solely instructed Us Weekly in October 2022. “However I had no thought. It was just like the worst heartbreak I’ve ever [felt].”
She added: “I felt just like the love of my life broke up with me for weeks. It was horrible. Now, I’m getting extra used to it and it additionally helps to see her comfortable and well-adjusted. That makes an enormous distinction. And she or he simply got here house for October break, in order that was good. I’ll see her for Thanksgiving.”
