Kaia Gerber's Vogue US December 2024, Marc Jacobs Cover Story Life Is a Grand Salon AOC Fashion

American Vogue’s [IG] December 2024 issue is guest-edited by Marc Jacobs [IG], who turned to his close friend and former protegé Kaia Gerber [IG] as his Marc Jacobs cover girl. Photographer Steven Meisel [IG] captures Gerber, who has spread her career-girl self with unassuming but very wide wings into what Iowa calls a West Coast/East Coat elitist, snob-fest for pseudo intellectuals. For the record, Kaia Gerber is not that person.

Grace Coddington styles the Kaia Gerber wears Marc Jacobs collection cover story, with author Dana Spiotta narrating a long, informative and exceptionally-synergistic, multi-event interview. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath

Kaia Gerber Studies Us All

The playwright Will Arbery says about his friend Kaia Gerber:

“For someone whose job is to be looked at, she’s actually looking back much more than anybody realizes.”

Perhaps this trait is far more common among top models than we realize. Or maybe not. To be one who looks back, one cannot be fully consumed with oneself. One must be uncommonly curious about life and the people living in your own metaphorical neighborhood — as well as those who are not.

From the very beginnings of her rise as a top model, sponsored by her legendary mother Cindy Crawford, Kaia Gerber has expressed a thirst for getting out and about in the world of ideas, events and human history.

Kaia Gerber’s i-D Spring 2020 Jeremy O. Harris Interview

A simple example of Gerber’s search of life’s opportunities was her appearance in the i-D Spring 2020 Icons Issue, interviewed by ‘Slave Play’ playwright and now good friend Jeremy O. Harris.

In a six-degrees-of-separation moment, Gerber notes in her Library Science book club interview below of Will Arbery that he is a friend of Jeremy O. Harris, whose ‘Slave Play’ production took London’s West End theatre culture by the throat in the second half of 2024.

Kaia Gerber ‘s Book Club Library Science Talks ‘Plano’ with Will Arbery

It will be interesting to see if Trump’s new anti-DEI commissioners will try to ban ‘Slave Play’ in America. AOC notes that London’s Noël Coward Theatre defended its decision to host two ‘Black Out nights’ at the playwright’s request. It allowed Black audiences to experience ‘Slave Play’ without Whites in the audience.

Understandably for all concerned, the decision was controversial. But then Harris the playwright and Kaia, too, would tell you that human history has been controversial. And not only white people started all the trouble. How about the Egyptians and the Nubians?