Kaia Gerber
Kaia Jordan Gerber (born September 3, 2001) is an American model and actress. She is the daughter of model Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber. After starring in a series of ad campaigns for fashion brands since debuting at Fashion Week in 2018, Gerber won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Gerber and her mother have worked together in campaigns for the Omega watch brand as well as three covers of Vogue.[3][4]
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Born | Kaia Jordan Gerber September 3, 2001 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 2014–present |
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Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Hair color | Brown |
Eye color | Brown |
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Early life
Gerber was born on September 3, 2001, in Los Angeles, California; she is the daughter of model Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber.[5][6] Her father is Jewish;[7] her mother, who is of German, English, French, and Danish descent, is Christian.[8][9] She has an older brother, Presley Gerber, When she was 10, Gerber landed her first modeling gig with Versace's junior line, Young Versace. Gerber took online classes at Malibu High School.[10]
Career
Gerber made her acting debut at 15 in Sister Cities (2016) as the young version of Carolina's character.[11] Gerber made her runway debut for Raf Simons's Calvin Klein Collection at 16 years old in 2017, and then walked for fashion houses such as Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Alexander Wang, Coach, Prada, Chanel, Fendi, Miu Miu, MaxMara, Givenchy, BottegaVeneta, Stella McCartney, Isabel Marrant, Alberta Ferretti, Loewe, Chloe, Sacai, Michael Kors, Moncler, JW. Anderson, Longchamp, Tom Ford, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ports1961, Lanvin, Anna Sui, Moschino, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Valentino, and Versace, alongside her mother, during 2018 Spring Fashion Week.[12]
Gerber has made editorials and has been on the cover of fashion magazines, including The Love Magazine, i-D, Teen Vogue and Pop Magazine, etc. as well as different covers and international editions of Vogue, including Vogue Paris, Vogue Japan, Vogue Italia, Vogue British, Vogue India, Vogue China, Vogue Magazine, and "The Book edition" for Vogue Netherlands with her mother in Winter 2016.[13] Gerber made her acting debut at 15 in Sister Cities (2016)[14] as the young version of Carolina's character.[15]
Gerber appeared in the Miu Miu eyewear campaign in 2016[16] and the Omega campaign in 2017[17][18] with her mother, photographed by Peter Lindbergh. In Spring 2018, she appeared in campaigns for Versace,[19] Calvin Klein,[20][21] and Saint Laurent fall winter.[22] In 2018, she and Sofia Mechetner led the campaign for Marc Jacobs's fragrance Daisy.[23] In the same year, she was the star of the CHANEL spring handbags campaign photographed by Karl Lagerfeld[24][25] and Valentino[26][27] at the same time.
In 2018, Gerber collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld to create the KarlxKaia collection,[28][29] her first collection. In 2019, Gerber starred in the Jimmy Choo's[30][31] spring/summer and fall/winter campaigns, also Stella McCartney spring campaign[32] and Fendi spring 2019 campaign[33][34] and debuted as the new face of advertising campaigns and brand ambassador for YSL beauty.[35][36][37] In 2020, Gerber starred in the Louis Vuitton "Twist bag" spring summer advertising campaign photographed by Craig McDean.[38][39]
Other ventures
On August 14, 2020, Daily Front Row listed Gerber as one of a group of high-profile investors who purchased W magazine, a fashion magazine.[40]
Awards and honors
Gerber was awarded Model of the Year at The Fashion Awards in 2018.[41]
Personal life
Religion
Gerber has stated that she observes some Jewish holidays such as Passover and Yom Kippur. Her family has a Passover seder each year, and her mother, Cindy Crawford has stated they do not observe Chanukah,[42] but she prepares a brisket from a recipe given to her by Gerber's paternal grandmother and which she calls a shiksa brisket.[43] She also celebrates Chrismukkah, which draws from traditions of Christmas and Hanukkah. In a 2018 interview, when asked about her relationship with Judaism (as her father is Jewish), and her level of religious observance or lack thereof, she said "Yeah, my dad is Jewish and my mom is Christian so we grew up doing both; we call it Christmas Chrismukah. I love learning about both of those sides of my life. We’d do Passover, Passover dinner and Yom Kippur. I love learning all of that, and learning the cooking".[44]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2016 | Sister Cities | Young Carolina | Television film |
2017 | Rich Kids of Instagram | Kaia | Episode: "Pilot: RKOI" |
Year | Title | Artist(s) | Notes |
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2020 | "Imagine (Quarantine Edition)" | Artists for We Are One | [45] |
2020 | "Crying in the Mirror" | Rainford | [46] |
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Sara Moonves, the glossy’s first female editor in chief in its 50-year history, assembled the group, led by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss. Other celebrity investors include fashion fixtures Lewis Hamilton and 18-year-old Kaia Gerber.
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