For the legendary Hollywood actor and her musician daughter, getting dressed up has always been a key part of their unbreakable mother-daughter bond.
Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Debut Their Dreamy Mother’s Day Coach Campaign
On a balmy California spring morning last week, the legendary Hollywood actor Andie MacDowell and her daughter Rainey Qualley—the latter also known under her stage name as a musician, Rainsford—found themselves reunited following MacDowell’s return from a seven-month shoot in Canada. Unlike most mother-daughter meet-ups after a stint apart, however, the circumstances for MacDowell and Qualley were a little more glamorous: posing in the garden of a luxurious private home in the Hollywood Hills wearing gowns and heels selected from racks of Coach’s finest threads, and shooting a Mother’s Day campaign for the American house with photographer Alessandro Simonetti.
“I’ve actually been stalking Coach on Instagram for a while, and I leave comments when I see something I like,” says MacDowell, whose enduring love for fashion stretches all the way back to her early career as a model for the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Bill Blass in the 1980s. “Especially because, like everybody else, during Covid things have been kind of quiet. I’m at home, I live alone, so I like to look at fashion. With Coach, it was something I looked at as an older woman, and I was like, ‘I know this design, but there’s a twist to it.’ I thought it was charming yet still age-appropriate.”
Qualley too is a fully paid-up fan of the brand, having attended a number of their shows in the past, and noting her love for the pieces at the more whimsical end of the spectrum. “We just finished hair and make-up and we’re about to get dressed,” says Qualley. “We’re on location at this beautiful mid-century house with a pool. The sun is shining, it’s an incredible setting. We’ve got some gorgeous clothes that we’re going to be putting on. Is this really our job?” Adds MacDowell, laughing: “My girls and I have always enjoyed fashion together.” And what better way to enjoy it than this?
Taking a break from their shoot, MacDowell and Qualley here share the story behind their unbreakable mother-daughter bond, the experience of shooting the campaign together, and the surprising changes lockdown has imposed on their approach to style.
How has the experience of getting dressed up to the nines again been today?
Qualley: Dude, I have turned into a complete slob. I wear sweatpants and Crocs every day. It’s a nightmare. I cannot wait to get dressed up. I look forward to nothing more than getting invited to something where I have to be coaxed into wearing something other than the trash that I wear in my apartment. Very emphatically, yes.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liam Hess
