Natalie Wooden has been lifeless for 44 years, however her legacy lives on in her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, whose new perfume line L’Amour Mēre is impressed by her legendary late mom. The 54-year-old, who was simply 11 when Natalie died attributable to an “unintentional drowning” on November 29, 1981, at age 43, has put her daughter, Clover, 13, entrance and heart because the face of the brand new line. Whereas Clover often is the star, Natasha options alongside her daughter within the marketing campaign, with the duo posing for some gorgeous new pictures by Jonathan Ressler.
“I believe it is simply my manner of connecting my daughter to my mother,” Natasha instructed Individuals. In a single photograph, Natasha and Clover sweetly embrace in matching black and white clothes that boast voluminous tulle mesh skirts, and the similarities between the mom and daughter duo and Natalie, who handed her darkish hair and facial options all the way down to her daughter, are uncanny.
Natasha was impressed by her mom’s signature gardenia scent when she created her perfume line, Natalie, in 2016. “I’ve at all times looked for magnificence. I really like the concept of bottling a reminiscence,” she defined. Virtually 10 years later, Natasha is relaunching the road with three scents, in response to Individuals. “Natalie, the unique Gardenia; the rose-based scent, C-Love (“Should you add the ‘R’ to C-love, it is Clover,” she stated), and Lyublyu, (“Which means love in Russian, which is impressed by my grandmother – who at all times stated ‘I really like you’ in Russian.”)
Natasha admitted that Clover, whom she shares together with her husband Barry Watson, has grow to be extra inquisitive about her grandmother as she’s grown up. “She’s inquisitive about my mother’s stage of fame,” Natasha admitted. “She’s conscious of younger folks which might be well-known and she or he’ll say, ‘How well-known was she?’ Like Justin and Hailey Bieber or one thing?”
Natasha added that Clover has lately seen her grandmother’s well-known 1961 movie Splendor within the Grass, during which she starred alongside Warren Beatty, in regards to the doomed love affair of two highschool sweethearts. “That is a reasonably intense movie, so she’s intrigued by the emotional spectrum of her performances,” Natasha stated. “Clover is a really delicate individual. And I believe she has that instance in her grandma, being weak but additionally such pressure.”
Clover is called after her grandmother’s character within the 1965 movie Inside Daisy Clover, during which Natalie starred reverse the late Robert Redford, who was a comparatively unknown actor on the time. Natasha hardly ever spoke about her mom however started opening up extra when she launched her perfume line in 2016, adopted in 2020 with a documentary, What Stays Behind, and a memoir, Extra Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mom, Natalie Wooden.
“I’ve extra of a mission as a result of it is not nearly having a well-known mother, it is also about survival of grief and what that appears like,” she beforehand instructed Individuals. “And I’ve a little bit of a narrative to inform round it as a result of I’m not a sufferer of it. I’ve gotten via it. I really feel this actual accountability to share her, and I simply need to assist Clover perceive who she was too.”