Star Style: Patti Hansen, Theordora Richards & Alexandra Richards

  

Former model Patti Hansen, age 56, and daughter Theodora Richards, 27, star together in this recent add for Net-a-Porter.com. Both women look amazing modeling maxi-dresses. 

It's not the first time the mother and daughter have modeled together; in December 2011 Patti appeared with Theodora on the cover of Town & Country magazine, along with daughter Alexandra, 25, as well.

Patti survived a health crisis when, two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she got a shocking diagnosis: bladder cancer, a form of the disease which typically afflicts men but which also affected roughly 18,000 women in the U.S. last year. Patti has since become an advocate of raising awareness among women about this form of cancer. 

Her health now thankfully restored, Patti and her friend Molly Madden recently launched a line of "rock and roll chic" handbags called Hung On U, based upon the women's "unbridled lifestyles during the Studio 54 era in New York."  The hands-free bags, which range in price from $260-$580, are meant to be slung messenger-style across the body and are available in a range of materials from mesh to leather to exotic skins:

 

Patti says the inspiration for the bags, which are sold at Barneys, was her daughters: the Hung on U website says, "... it wasn’t until watching Patti’s daughters, Alexandra and Theodora, regularly exploring Patti’s closet for these great bags that Patti and Molly remembered how much they loved these fabulous bags."  

The launch of the handbag line at Barneys last fall as a family affair, with Patti's husband/ Alexandra and Theordora's dad / Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards in attendance:

At the event, Patti told a reporter that she is influenced by her daughters' style: "they are wearing the new designers and they're out there in the fashion. I get to see it on them and go 'oh, alright, that's cool.' it's switching, I'm borrowing their stuff now," she said.