In a homecoming of sorts, model royalty (and emerging actor) Kaia Gerber strips it back with tomboyish ease in her shoot with photographer Mario Sorrenti and fashion director Nicola Formichetti.

It feels like only yesterday that V ’s Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Gan, met Kaia at 13 when the world knew her as supermodel Cindy Crawford’s daughter. Even closer in our memory is her shoot with Inez and Vinoodh for the cover of V125, still a baby-faced 18-year-old.

Four years later, though she still possesses those soft, girlish features, Kaia has grown into her own as a model, artist, and person. Standing before us today is a 22-year-old woman who will always feel familiar and full of promise. And if her covetable cool stance is any indicator, she feels at home in the pages of V, too.

This story appears in the pages of V147: now available for purchase!

Photography Mario Sorrenti 

Fashion Nicola Formichetti 

Creative Direction / Editor-in-Chief Stephan Gan 

Makeup Kanako Takase (Streeters)

Hair Tomo Jidai (Home Agency)

Model Kaia Gerber (DNA)

Manicure Christina Zuleta (Walter Schupfer Management) using OPI

Set design Philipp Haemmerle

Producer Katie Fash

Production manager Layla Néméjanski

On-set producer Steve Sutton Digital technician Chad Meyer

Photo assistants Kotaro Kawashima, Javier Villegas

Stylist assistants Arut Arustamyan, Brandon Brownstein

Makeup assistant Miki Ishikura

Hair assistant Tomoko Kuwamura

Set design assistant Adam DiCarlo

Production assistant Jake Shepherd

Retouching Hest Inc.

Location Mario Sorrenti Studio