Being the daughter of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow might make it difficult for onlookers to see you as your own person. Apple Martin, who just posed with her mother for GAP, knows this all too well. But she also has her own connection to the brand: “When I think of Gap, I think of growing up with it,” she said in a statement as the store launched its new campaign. “When I was little, I was always dressed in Gap Kids, and I’ve loved clothes since I was that age.” Martin is also the image of Self-Portrait, a brand that has become a favorite Gen Z thanks to campaigns with big names like Phoebe Dynevor and Gigi Hadid.
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In an interview with The Telegraph, Martin explains that as a child, she would do fashion shows in her room, dressed in her school uniform, and posing in front of the mirror as if she were on a catwalk. She still loves to look at her mother’s past on the red carpet—and of course, she occasionally borrows accessories and garments from Paltrow’s closet. “She keeps a lot of things. Not all of them fit me, but the ones that do fit me, I always steal. I recently stole a Prada bowling bag from her; it’s the perfect travel bag because it fits so much,” she says.
When Martin doesn’t have a fashion campaign on her hands, she studies law, history and society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. “I constantly remind myself how grateful I am to have these opportunities,” she told the newspaper. “I know this is not a normal way to grow up by any means. But my parents did a really good job of instilling in me that I shouldn’t be entitled to anything. I have to work.”
Original story in VF Spain.
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