Booked & busy

WITH HER ACTING CAREER TAKING OFF, THE LITERATURE-LOVING MODEL IS WRITING HER NEXT CHAPTER

- Jennie Noonan

Far from attempting to distance herself from her famous lineage, Kaia Gerber is leaning into it while she carves out her own niche as a model and comedic actress with a literary side hustle. At the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival premiere of her campy horror movie, Shell, costarring Kate Hudson and Elisabeth Moss, the 24-year-old pulled focus in a white Hervé Léger bodycon gown with a sweetheart neckline - a custom recreation of the dress her mother, supermodel Cindy Crawford, wore to accompany her then husband, Richard Gere, to the Academy Awards in 1993. "Kaia had sent me a mood board for TIFF and this was one of her references," her stylist Molly Dickson told Vogue. "I thought it would be amazing to pay tribute to Cindy's iconic moment."

Three decades after her mum divorced Gere in 1995 after four years of marriage, Gerber was on set working with his son, Homer Gere. The moment came on October 29 in Los Angeles, where the pair were filming Ryan Murphy's upcoming show The Shards, based on American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis' 2023 novel of the same name, which follows a group of high-school friends in 1981.

Gerber, who Cindy shares with her husband, Casamigos Tequila co-founder Rande Gerber, and Homer, whose mother is Gere's ex-wife Carey Lowell, were the spitting image of their famous parents. Just three days later, on November 1, Gerber lit up the red carpet at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art+Film Gala, proudly posing beside her mum in coordinating sparkly Gucci looks.

Gerber has long acknowledged the advantages of her famous heritage, especially in the modelling industry. "I won't deny the privilege that I have," she told