Linda Evangelista walked the red carpet at the second annual Caring for Women Dinner on Tuesday with her son, Augustine James Evangelista.
The fundraising event was organized by the Kering Foundation and is raising funds for “non-governmental organizations dealing with gender-based violence,” according to a press release.
Evangelista (58) shares Augustin (16) with her ex-partner, French businessman François-Henri Pinault. Augustine’s father and his wife, Salma Hayek Pinault, are co-chairs of the event.
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The mom and son duo made the date a sweet family moment by wearing matching black suits. Augustin wore his jacket buttoned up, while Evangelista chose to wear hers open and showed off her formal white shirt.
Linda Evangelista.
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The fashion icon and her son share a close relationship. In a February 2022 interview with PEOPLE, Evangelista credited Augustin as giving her the strength to share her experience with CoolSculpting, a fat-freezing body contouring procedure.
“It is very important to me to raise him knowing that he is beautiful and knowing that everyone is beautiful,” she said. “It’s so messed up that I actually believe it, except it doesn’t apply to me.”
In an Instagram tribute in honor of his 16th birthday in October, the Canadian model also recognized him as someone who is “My heart. My light.”
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Augustine James Evangelista and Linda Evangelista.
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Although her son was raised relatively out of the limelight, she spoke in a 2013 interview Harper’s Bazaar that they do not share a common love for fashion.
“Let’s just say I have a child who doesn’t like fashion,” she told the outlet at the time. “He wants jerseys. We watch sports and go to games. Now I do boy things.”
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Evangelista’s fashion achievements were recently celebrated in VogueSeptember edition. For the cover, she reunited with fellow fashion icons Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell.
Campbell, Crawford, Evangelista and Turlington also appear in the Apple TV+ documentary series Super modelswhich premieres on September 20.
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“I don’t mind and never have minded getting older,” Evangelista said Vogue. “Aging gets us where we want to be, and that’s a long life for me. [Late makeup artist] Kevyn Aucoin was so afraid of wrinkles and never got them. I want wrinkles – but I botox my forehead so I’m a hypocrite – but I want to age. I want to watch my son [Augie] grows into a fine young man. I just want to hold on.”
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