Melinda Gates, 59, and her youngest daughter Phoebe, 20, looked picture perfect as they arrived at the Michael Kors show during New York Fashion Week on Monday.
As the mother-daughter duo walked the pre-show carpet, they posed for several rounds of glamorous side-by-side and solo photos.
Melinda wore a figure-hugging dark green dress, paired with a tonal shrug, blocky black heels, loose curls and natural makeup as the two attended the show at Domino Park in Brooklyn.
Phoebe, a student at Stanford University and an aspiring fashion entrepreneur herself, wore a plunging red dress, paired with strappy sandals, a red bag, bold red lips and a dramatic side part for her jet black hair.
Melinda (left) and Phoebe (right) Gates attend the Michael Kors NYFW show in Brooklyn
Phoebe wore a plunging red dress, paired with strappy sandals, a red bag, bold red lips and a dramatic side parting for her jet black hair. Melinda wore a figure-hugging dark green dress, paired with a tonal shrug, blocky black heels, loose curls and natural makeup
It’s no surprise that the youngest Gates child is showing up at New York Fashion Week, after several years in the changing world of high fashion and fashion journalism.
In recent years, Phoebe has attended shows and parties during Fashion Weeks in Paris and New York. She also spent a summer interning at British Vogue.
Most recently, Phoebe is launching a sustainable fashion platform with her college roommate called Phia, which she often promotes on her Instagram. She has more than 300,000 followers on the social media platform.
While the product has yet to be precisely defined, the students have already secured coveted partnerships with top designers focused on sustainability, such as Stella McCartney.
Phoebe previously described herself as a ‘reproductive rights activist’ and is studying human biology at school.
Phoebe is the youngest of three children from Melinda Gates’ marriage to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Phoebe has a net worth of around $10 million, much of which is likely thanks to her wealthy parents.
Melinda Gates divorced Bill two years ago and she has a net worth of around $10 billion. The mother of three and grandmother of one looked confident and cool as she showed up at NYFW on Monday.
While in New York, Melinda may also have stopped by to visit her eldest child, 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.
Earlier this year it was reported that the couple moved into a $51 million penthouse in Lower Manhattan, previously owned by F1 star Lewis Hamilton.
The 8,900-square-foot apartment, with 3,400 square feet of outdoor space, is the largest in a luxury apartment building at 443 Greenwich Street.
Hamilton sold it in 2021 after four years of ownership, thinking he’d never move in. It was sold to a Seattle trust for just over its list price of $49.5 million.
The fashionable mother-daughter duo looked comfortable and cool, even on a humid September day in New York City
Bill and Melinda Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage and three children together. Bill was rumored to have had an affair and became the subject of speculation due to his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly confused his wife for nearly three decades.
Since their high-stakes divorce, Bill and Melinda are both reportedly dating new partners.
Bill, 67, has been spotted several times with Paula Hurd, 60, the former wife of Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who passed away in October 2019.
Melinda, who called her divorce from the software billionaire “incredibly painful,” has reportedly been in contact with former Fox reporter Jon Du Pre, 63, since last year.
When they were a couple, the Gates famously said that they would do their best to give their children a normal life, despite the extraordinary circumstances.
Bill previously revealed that he was more interested in educating his children so that they can make something of themselves. He promised to give each of them a small amount of money before passing the rest on to his eponymous foundation.
Late last year, it was reported that Melinda Gates was dating again after what she called her “incredibly painful” divorce
Phoebe has a net worth of around $10 million, much of which is likely thanks to her wealthy parents
67-year-old Bill Gates famously said that he will give each of his children enough money to do something, but not to do nothing
Gates said: ‘Our children will have a good education and some money, so they will never be bad off, but they will go out and have their own careers.
‘It’s not a favor to children if they have huge amounts of money. It disrupts everything they could be doing, creating their own path.”
The exes may have tried to raise their children as modestly as possible, but their living situation was far from modest: The family grew up in a $131 million mansion in Medina, Washington, which came complete with seven bathrooms, 24 bathrooms and six kitchens. , as well as a private artificial beach, home cinema, gym and trampoline room.
The property, estimated to be worth $131 million, is nicknamed “Xanadu 2.0,” a reference to the fictional estate in the movie “Citizen Kane.”