How to Get Jennifer Lawrence’s Cool Mom Style

Chantal Fernandez · 2025-11-07T10:57:50.827-05:00

I recently returned to work after giving birth to my first child. Among all the new things on my mind, like when to pump in between meetings or how to get my baby to sleep through the night, I have another dilemma: I need pants. I have only one pair that fits at the moment — dark, oversize Citizens of Humanity jeans — but it’s not just my size that’s the issue. An unexpected consequence of parenthood is that I want to dress more adventurously. I want to do better than a white button-down and dark jeans. And specifically, I want to dress like Jennifer Lawrence.

During all those nights I spent holding a baby in a dark room and scrolling to keep myself awake, Lawrence’s paparazzi pictures gave me a jolt of inspiration. She’s been a superfan of The Row’s minimalist precision for years, but her style shifted when she became a mom for the second time earlier this year. On the red carpet, she still wears dramatic Dior gowns, but off-duty on the streets of Tribeca, when Lawrence doesn’t work with a stylist, you’ll find her in bright-red roomy pants, a vintage graphic T-shirt, and a silk bucket hat. Or in a boxy leather jacket over a long slip skirt topped with a Twilight: Breaking Dawn baseball hat. Everything she wears is oversize but layered with dainty pendant necklaces. Her favorite colors are preschool-friendly pops of bright reds and blues. Her hair is always messy. She barely wears any makeup. There is a playful, boyish charm to how she pulls her looks together. Forget tomboy. I’m calling it momboy style, for the women who love the contrast between a leopard-print calfskin coat and gorpy Salomon sneakers.

Of course, you don’t have to be a mom, or a mom of boys, to embrace the momboy ethos. (Recently, model Alex Consani called out Lawrence’s style as her “current hyperfixation.”) But there’s a long history of cool-mom uniforms, especially in this city, where trends can be particularly contagious and influential as each new generation of women tries to figure out how to dress like adults. Pieces like the pandemic-era Amazon coat with the pockets or the No. 6 clogs can become drop-off status symbols. Ten years ago, the cool moms loved skinny jeans and Equipment shirts, or Lululemon leggings paired with designer bags, or semi-distressed sweaters with moto jackets. More recently, we’ve seen the frilly, feminine Hill House–style nap-dress wave, the Jenni Kayne mania with their cashmere sweaters and pointed mules, and the viral knit pants from High Sport (you know, the $800 ones) and Donni (a more casual alternative).

But I’m beiged out. And as much as I love the return of frilly femininity on the runways, that’s not something I want to wear in my day-to-day life. To break down what makes Lawrence’s style so seductive and how to replicate it, I spoke to Elyse Winter, an L.A.-based personal stylist whose clients often ask her for help dressing specifically like Lawrence. “She has this L.A.–meets–New York, everyday, approachable street style,” she says.

The key to momboy style is an oversize silhouette that subverts conventional ideas of what looks flattering on a woman’s body. “A lot of women that I work with, and in general that are shopping, used to be fixated on What’s the smallest size jean I can get?” Winter says. “Wearing volume on volume takes balls” — even if you’re one of the world’s most beautiful people. We all know big pants are in right now. What else makes the momboy look work?

Lawrence loves soft, sleek bias-cut pants that no one would confuse for pajamas but feel just as comfortable — especially for those of us still figuring out our postpartum size. The designer version is The Row’s Gala pant, but recently, Lawrence has been rewearing the Colby style from La Ligne, which comes in her favorite accent color, bright red.