During the 1990s, anyone who came into even glancing contact with a fashion magazine, a designer's runway, a Calvin Klein billboard, a George Michael video, or a Maybelline commercial was probably well accustomed to seeing supermodel Christy Turlington all done up. But for Grace Burns, who is, after all, just a youngster, the vision of Turlington dressed for an evening out is a rare delight and cause for gasping approval: "Oooh, Mommy!"
"She's so used to seeing me in a pair of men's jeans, or my yoga clothes, that I get an 'Oooh, Mommy!' even when I wear something like this," Turlington says, pointing to her casual yoke-collared trapeze dress. "Though it's black, so it's not her favorite."
One can only imagine, then, how her daughter and her son, Finn, will react when Turlington heads out in her festive finery for the Nutcracker Family Benefit, a holiday-party fundraiser she's co-chairing for the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. All the better that it's the ballet, which Grace has adored since she was 2. "I worried about whether she could sit through the performance—sometimes she doesn't sit through a Disney movie. But she was mesmerized," her mother recalls. "At the photo shoot [for Cookie], Grace loved being with the dancers so much that she didn't want me around. She kept saying, 'Goodbye, Mommy,' and dragging me offstage. I thought I had a few more years before she got sick of me. Though I've always said she was 13 when she was born."
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