Ella Emhoff at the 2021 Met Gala with her mother, Kerstin Emhoff (inset).Photo: Getty (2)
Ella Emhoff’sMet Gala debutcaught the attention of fashion fans watching the red carpet in New York City on Monday, including her mom.
“She is beautiful! Proud Mama!” Kerstin tweeted, adding a tears-of-joy emoji.
Ella is the stepdaughter of Vice PresidentKamala Harris, who married her father,Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, in 2014.
Kerstin is a film producer and CEO of the production company Prettybird. She remains friendly with Harris and her ex-husband, with whom she also shares son Cole.
“I don’t want to just be the famous ex-wife,” KerstintoldPoliticoearlier this year, laughing as she noted some of the headlines about her. “I am accomplished in my own right.”
After a canceled gala in 2020, the fashion event unfolded in N.Y.C. on Monday for theMetropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’sIn America: A Lexicon of Fashion, a new exhibit exploring American fashion.
Ella, a graduate of Parsons School of Design, signed with IMG Models at the start of 2021 andmade her New York Fashion Week runway debutin February.
“I was pretty surprised when everything with IMG was happening because when I was younger, I never saw that as being part of my timeline,” shetoldThe New York Timesof becoming a model while studying fashion design.
source: people.com
