When your mom is supermodel Cindy Crawford, and you are supermodel Kaia Gerber, there’s only one thing that we, the humble public, ask for: a dramatic red carpet reference.
Nothing delights me more than looking at two side-by-side photos of a celebrity mom and a celebrity daughter appearing nearly identical in a shared piece of clothing more than 30 years apart. Tell me that letting your eyes dart between these two images to compare likenesses doesn’t spark joy. Tell me you’re not marveling at the wonders of genetics right now.
On the left, we have Gerber, 23, at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of Shell. On the right we have a 27-year-old Crawford, who attended the 1993 Academy Awards on the arm of her then-boyfriend, Richard Gere. On both of them is a formfitting white column gown, styled with pointed-toe white stilettos and accessorized with drop earrings and bouncy, loose curls.
According to Vogue, Gerber’s gown is an Hervé Leger recreation of Crawford’s dress, which had been made custom for the Academy Awards. Gerber’s stylist, Molly Dickson, said that the model-cum-actor had sent her a TIFF mood board, which included her mother’s Oscars look. “I thought it would be amazing to pay tribute to Cindy’s iconic moment,” she told Vogue. And though the dress wasn’t the exact piece from Crawford’s closet, the jewels were. Gerber borrowed the glittering diamonds from her mother’s stash.
Gerber is at TIFF to promote her latest projects: Saturday Night Live! origin story Saturday Night, in which she stars as Jacqueline Carlin, Chevy Chase’s second wife, and Shell, a film about the dark secrets harbored by the founder of a wellness company in which Gerber plays an It girl.
Unlike her mother, who segued her modeling career into hosting gigs for MTV, Kaia Gerber is clearly carving a path forward in film. Given the number of projects she’s booked, it looks like things are going well. And this is exactly what I want from nepo babies: talent and the courtesy of throwing us an “I am my mother’s doppelgänger” moment every now and then. Thank you, Kaia, for your service.
