Fact: If you’re not in the fashion industry, you probably think most people in it are bitchy.
But, if you are in the fashion industry, you know that while some are, most aren’t, (just like any industry) and a handful are pretty extraordinary.
So meet Nikki. She’s 14 and her mother teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design. She made friends with some of her mother’s students who eventually moved to NYC. And when Nikki was diagnosed with cancer, her New York pen pals flew her up to New York to take fashion obsessed Nikki to the Superhero exhibit at the Met.
The story spread and soon Nikki was touring Marc’s studio, lunching with Andre in Oscar’s showroom, getting her own WWD cover and chilling on the Ugly Betty set.
If you need your faith in humanity restored, read this.
posted by cody
Aug 20, 2008 12:36PM
reading this at work was not a good idea! i'm now completely in tears. that was such a touching story.