In her new book, Terry Newman explores how some of fashion's most recognizable women maintained their individuality, ambition and personal style through motherhood.

Mothers and coolness might sound like a clashing combination, but they are coalescing style-wise like never before.

The ever fashion-conscious Rihanna, Gigi Hadid and Hailey Bieber certainly qualify. But author Terry Newman’s new book “Cool Mothers: An Appreciation of Style” focuses on other fashion arbiters like Jane Birkin, Vivienne Westwood, Kate Moss, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Taylor Swift’s mother Andrea and Rosita Missoni, along with her daughter Angela and granddaughter Margherita Missoni.

While Lila Moss refers to dipping into her supermodel mother’s drawer to steal old rock T-shirts with a Rolling Stones one being a favorite, this illustrated page-turner is more of a celebration of mothers’ style than a how-to tutorial. The featured mothers’ personal style choices relay individualism, assuredness and confidence in their kin, Newman said in a recent interview.

While the unlikely fashion trend of wearing a false bump called “The Pad” took hold in 1793 and Jeanne Lanvin introduced the mommy-and-me look in 1897, Newman’s exploration of mothers’ coolness is definitively more contemporary. Adroit at delving into what wardrobes reveal about a person, Newman has published other books about Harry Styles, BTS and Marilyn Monroe.

All of the above come down to “writing mini biographies of people through their clothes,” she said. (Readers might examine their own closets as a different means for self reflection. Indubitably, mothers are having a moment culturally and politically.

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