Kaia Gerber’s Dad Was a Model, Too<br />“There’s a fourth member of the Gerber family,” said Ms. Gerber, who had emerged as one of the world’s<br />most in-demand celebrity models, ever since she made her runway debut in New York a few weeks earlier.<br />So they’ve been really hands-on parents.”<br />Ms. Crawford said that the name Kaia was inspired by a character in the 1988 fantasy film “Willow,” while Mr.<br />Gerber said she was named for “Kaya,” the title track of a 1978 Bob Marley album (and slang for marijuana).<br />A storm drenched the courtyard of the Hotel de Sully, a 17th-century mansion in the Marais district, just as Cindy Crawford; her 16-year-old daughter, Kaia Gerber;<br />and 18-year-old son, Presley Gerber, took the stage at a Paris fashion week party in September.<br />“She was dating Richard,” Mr. Gerber said, referring to Richard Gere, Ms. Crawford’s former husband.<br />“He’s like the coolest person in the world,” Ms. Gerber said about her father.<br />“He comes off as very laid-back and he is, but he’s also constantly thinking, and he notices ev-ery-thing,” said Ms. Crawford, 51.
