Kim knew in advance that the runway season is brutally demanding when she first started in Antwerp a year ago, as a  showroom model for cult Belgian designer Jurgi Peersons. She liked the family-like environment of the showroom, the quiet pace, the familiar faces. But destiny (in the form of Vision Models) came calling and then came the insider connections at New York Models and subsequently Kim's killer NY show season. Now here she is marching day in, day out to the  beat beat beat of fashion that somehow presumes the model is a indefatigable machine.

Decency insists we should just let Kim go home and rest  but there are the demands of the job. All this bric-a-brac and madness makes for a provocative editorial layout  but there is no cover shot here, not unless we want  Marilyn Manson and Greta Garbo sharing the backdrop with Miss Peers.
And we can't let her go  because Kim right now is white-hot. Everything she has been shooting  has looked incredible and not "incredible" in that polite way but incredible in a trend setting way.