A Day With Kaia Gerber

Vogue

Director: Nina Ljeti Director of Photography: Michael Lopez Editor: Rachel Kosminsky, Michael Suyeda Senior Producer: Bety Dereje Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg Assistant Camera: Kahdeem Prosper Jefferson Gaffer: Eric Hinsperger Audio: Lily van Leeuwen Production Assistant: Quinton Johnson Makeup Artist: Marcelo Gutierrez Hairstylist: Joseph Handwerker Groomer: Jennifer Brent Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors Line Producer: Romeeka Powell Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier Assistant Editor: Billy Ward Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio Global Talent Casting Director: Ignacio Murillo Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes Senior Director, Video: Romy van den Broeke Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri Filmed on Location: JINsoon Nail Salon, Hotel Chelsea

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00:00Alright Kaz, cut on you. Let's go. Thank you.

00:10We are coming from the Vogue offices where we just talked a bit about shooting the cover

00:14with Mark and Steven and now we are on our way to Ginsoon, my favorite nail salon in

00:19New York, to get pedicures and I'm meeting a friend but it's a surprise.

00:27Oh, books. It's either one of two things if I get distracted, books or dogs. Oh, we're here.

00:38My friend that I'm with needs no introduction, the one and only Mark Jacobs.

00:43Hi. This is like old school acrylic. I mean, I love to fuck with gender. I don't think

00:48there are a lot of young men or men running around with nails like this.

00:52The sound of them, we've all been talking about. It's like, I want to go to sleep to

00:57that sound. It's so nice. I can't sit still for two hours in a movie.

01:02But I can sit still for eight hours. Really? The first time we met, I think it was on Mark

01:08Jacobs Beauty. Yeah, I think so. That was the first, right? Because that was before Daisy.

01:12We showed up at the studio, wherever the photo studio was, and Cindy was there with you.

01:18Oh, yeah. My mom wanted to bring me to work. I couldn't even travel alone. I know. I know.

01:23You were quite young and Cindy brought you in. People have always said that, like, they

01:27see my mom and they go, oh, is it about to be stage mom? And she couldn't have been...

01:31Less. She wasn't living vicariously through me. She was like, I've done it. Enjoy it.

01:35I guess there were a lot of people requesting to work with you and do things with you. And

01:40I think, you know, she had her reservations about a young woman doing a beauty campaign.

01:44And she said, like, I just really don't want this to not look young. And I thought that

01:48was, you know, really true to her and very cool. And then I did two shows. And you said

01:53on RuPaul, what... The RuPaul episode that I guest judged was like Neo Gaw and Nymphia

01:59Wynne, who I'm such a fan of, had her face covered and looked so beautiful. And one of

02:04the critiques was, you know, you shouldn't cover your face. And I was like, I don't know

02:08because I walked to Mark Jacobs Runway or two where my face is covered. And it doesn't

02:12matter because it's fashion, darling.

02:14I love that you said it. I wasn't expecting it. And I was watching that episode and I

02:18was like, yep, there.

02:19And it was like this third show I did for you at the Armory where I had this big hat.

02:24And it was one of my favorites. So I was also like, I don't have to think about what my

02:27face looks like right now. But the clothes, I loved the clothes for that show.

02:31There's so many people in that show. Like Hunter was in that show. There are a lot of

02:35people who...

02:36It's true for a lot of your shows. That's what I love. And the thing is like now, you

02:40know when someone does a show, like you have social media and things, so you know when

02:43someone's there. But I love not being recognizable in a show. It's really fun.

02:47Well, I give you that opportunity.

02:49You do. And that's why I love working for you.

02:51So what made you think of Kaya for the coworkers?

02:54Clearly the Kaya story is the best.

02:56Stop. The other, the better models weren't available.

03:00Oh, please. It was the first and it was just, it was just the most incredible day. It was

03:07just like everything I loved and being with Stephen, being with Kaya, being with Pat and

03:11Guido and Grace. It was just like, again, one of those days that's very few and far

03:16between for me. And when I get them, I just realize why I love doing this. Like what I

03:21do, you know.

03:22And then you also have Anna Weyant doing...

03:25Yeah. Oh my God. Have you seen it?

03:27I saw. Oh my gosh.

03:29Did you see it finished?

03:30No.

03:31Okay. I didn't either. I was lucky enough to get a painting from her last show here

03:34in New York and she had posted a pot and I was like, oh my God, that pot is amazing.

03:41Is there any way you can put in a good word with Larry Gagosian? I want that pot. And

03:45she said, well, put in a good word, but that one pot is really a part of three pots. So

03:49I should send you the whole painting before. But then when I saw the three pots, I was

03:53like, what's better than one pot?

03:54Three.

03:55What have you got coming up?

03:56Well, I was just at TIFF for this movie about Saturday Night Live that I am in.

04:03A movie about Saturday Night Live?

04:05Yeah, it's about the first, the making of the first episode. It's like the hour and

04:09a half leading up to when they first went live. And then it was this massive success

04:12that still goes on.

04:14Are we saying bye?

04:15We're saying goodbye.

04:16Bye.

04:17Bye.

04:18Bye.

04:25Is it me having dinner by myself or no?

04:27You're talking to me.

04:28Okay, great.

04:29You're talking to me.

04:30And I was like, it should be both of us. I was like, you've had your boat covers while

04:33I'm like, it's okay. So tonight we're doing a reading with Library Science and the Chelsea

04:40Hotel. When I moved to New York, I read Just Kids, which is I feel like required reading

04:44for any young person, especially if you're moving to New York and you're a creative or

04:48an artist. So I just glorified Hotel Chelsea so much. It's like there's so many incredible

04:54people that have lived here. I have this like huge document on my phone that's like pages

04:58long of people that have lived here. I feel like I could spend days here just like going

05:01to all the different apartments. The stories here are just like the coolest. So when we

05:06started doing these in-person readings, I thought the Chelsea Hotel would be the perfect

05:10place to do one. The only rule that I gave to readers was it has to be a piece written

05:17by someone who was at one moment in their life a resident. I'm reading a piece, I have

05:21friends coming. I have this incredible guitarist who is a resident here playing on a guitar

05:28that's made out of wood from the renovations they just did. And then a lot of residents

05:33are coming down from their homes, which they have so kindly welcomed us into. And I hope

05:38that they don't feel invaded by us. And it's really just a celebration of them and their

05:43life and their art. I'm still kind of in between what I'm going to read. I haven't decided.

05:48It might be a game time decision. I've always been very drawn to correspondences. So letters

05:53between people. And that's why I gravitated towards the letter that Patty wrote Robert.

06:00But there are letters that Leonard Cohen wrote to Marianne, his longtime muse. The ones that

06:06I also might read are also towards the end of her life and his goodbyes to her. But they're

06:11like celebrations of life.

06:19I'm doing a play in L.A., which I'm really excited about. It's my friend Will Arbery's

06:25play. Being able to rehearse as much as you do with a play in a small space that's like

06:29really safe and kind of the safety to fail is something that I haven't felt very much

06:36in my life. I hope I get to act for as long as I'm breathing. It doesn't feel like a job

06:42to me. I feel so lucky that I get to do that and make believe and play pretend for my job.

06:50I don't even call it a job because it's really so fun. That's what I was doing as a kid for

06:55fun. And even if there's absolutely no money involved, I would still be doing it.

07:03Have one. You can swallow it whole.

07:12Hi, thank you guys for being here at the Chelsea Hotel or Hotel Chelsea, whatever you prefer.

07:24I am very excited that everyone has let us into this beautiful historic place. And for

07:31some people here into their home, we have some wonderful readers, some residents and

07:36then some friends.

07:43Thank you. And that's it. That's all.

08:00Thank you Vogue for spending the day with me. I have to get back to my event. I'll see you.

08:12Bye.

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