Frances Bean Cobain Goes Full Goth for Kurt Cobain Documentary Premiere

When you’re the offspring of two famous musicians, you’re born with a certain amount of street cred coursing through your veins. And Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Nirvana singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and Hole front-woman Courtney Love, certainly has it in spades. At the premiere of the documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck at the Tribeca Film Festival, the 22-year-old showed off her rockstar genes via an haute goth sort of look, while her mother went old Hollywood glam in a floor-length red satin dress with embellished shoulder straps.

In a look that’s very Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent-meets-Alexander Wang’s most recent punk-inspired collection, Frances, who is an executive producer of the documentary exploring her deceased father’s career, seemed like a moody teenager unhappy to be by her mom’s side on the red carpet. A razor blade pendant fell from her neck, over a laced-up shirt and ‘90s-style choker. Her makeup completed the “high school teen trying to annoy her mom” look: white powder, red eyeshadow and lipstick, and black nail polish.

Love, on the other hand, didn’t seem fazed by the apparent show of rebellion. The singer, who granted unrestricted access to her late husband’s archives for the film made by Brett Morgen, dressed uncharacteristically demure. The sophisticated ensemble even seemed to effect the way she treated moody Frances, loving her up even though the young adult looked less than interested (though that’s still a vast improvement over the restraining orders of the past).

Frances, who seems to be consistently melancholy, recently opened up to Rolling Stone, speaking publicly for the first time about her dad: “Kurt got to the point where he eventually had to sacrifice every bit of who he was to his art, because the world demanded it of him,” she said. “I think that was one of the main triggers as to why he felt he didn’t want to be here and everyone would be happier without him.” But, she continued, “in reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.”