True love

Ondria Hardin and Miu Miu

Backstage at the Chanel show, I had a nice tête-à-tête with Ondria Hardin. One of the 86 (seriously) top models who walked this show. Ondria thought I worked for Chanel, which might not have been too strange since I was a. dressed in black and b. carrying a bag, necklace, earrings, and shoes from ‘the house’. Well...

Many models have learned to craft a cocoon around themselves that allows all the chaos that arises to slide off them. If you can't do that, you're hopelessly lost. Five strange people pulling at you at the same time. A normal person might want to chat with all of them, only to drown in the conversation because you can't keep that up. Certainly not 18 hours a day, for four weeks straight. Ondria just kept chatting. About New York, about how much she enjoyed fashion week and how she would immediately get back to work at home.

I checked her Instagram account that afternoon. What did I see? A photo with her sister on the beach where it immediately became clear who used to finish their plate and who didn't. Furthermore, a bombardment of posts from Ondria with her BFF Miu Miu. No, that's not a Park Avenue Princess but her dog. No posts of look-at-me-being-an-amazing-model-opening-closing-vip-parties. None of that. Just her and Miu Miu. During Fashion Week, the only thing she posted were regrams with texts like ‘miss my sleeping buddy’ and ‘so close, yet so far’.

When I checked my Instagram in bed last night, I saw a post of a reunited Ondria in an intimate entanglement with Miu Miu with the accompanying text ‘best friend’ and I could go to sleep calmly and contentedly.

(photocredit: instagram.com/ondriahardinofficial)