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A Victoria’s Secret Angel lets the cameras follow her through the chaos of New York Fashion Week.
Vogue’s “Diary of a Model” series caught up with Taylor Hill on February 19, 2019, for a nine-minute-and-32-second look at what Fall 2019 fashion week actually looks like once the lights go down between shows. The episode centers on Hill’s day walking for designer Anna Sui, but it spends just as much time on the unglamorous stretches in between — fittings, a rushed backstage hair wash, and eventually a couch with her dog and a pizza box. Directed by Talia Collis, the video trades red-carpet polish for the version of Hill’s job that doesn’t usually make it to Instagram.
- Hill walks Anna Sui’s runway during New York Fashion Week’s Fall 2019 season, the episode’s centerpiece moment.
- Backstage, a stylist washes Hill’s hair with bottled water to reset her look between appearances, and she delivers an impromptu backbend on the runway itself.
- Off the clock, Hill orders pizza delivery and unwinds at home with her dog, bookending the day’s runway pressure with something closer to normal life.
Getting Ready for Anna Sui
The bulk of the episode tracks the mechanics of turning a model around between fittings, rehearsals, and the actual walk for Anna Sui — one of the more established names on the NYFW calendar. Hill gets final touch-ups to her hair and makeup right up against showtime, the kind of last-minute adjustment that happens in the seconds before a model steps out, not the hours before. It’s the part of fashion week that photographers rarely catch: stylists working fast, Hill holding still, everyone racing the clock before she hits the runway.
The backstage hair wash is the episode’s most telling detail. With no time for a proper salon setup between calls, Hill’s team improvises with bottled water to get her hair back into shape — a reminder that even a Victoria’s Secret Angel’s polished runway look is often assembled in a matter of minutes under less-than-ideal conditions. Then there’s the backbend: an unscripted, spontaneous moment on the runway itself that the video captures as pure instinct rather than choreography, the kind of flourish that separates a model comfortable in front of a crowd from one just following a straight line to the end of the runway.
The Business of Getting Noticed
Between the physical prep, Hill turns reflective about the mechanics of building a modeling career. She talks about the value of networking early and getting to know casting directors well before they’re the ones deciding who walks a show — the kind of relationship-building that happens long before fashion week week itself, in fittings and go-sees that never make it into a highlight reel.
Getting to know casting directors early on is one of the things Hill points to as key to building a lasting career, not just landing one big show.
It’s a practical, unglamorous piece of advice, and it fits the tone of the whole episode — Hill isn’t selling a mystique so much as describing a job with its own networking circuit, repeat clients, and long memory for who shows up prepared. That kind of insight is part of why Vogue’s diary format works: it treats models less like faces and more like professionals showing their work, the same way outlets track any other career’s day-to-day grind, the way readers might follow how a specific fashion era resurfaces on runways years later.
Life After the Last Call
Once the Anna Sui show wraps, the episode shifts gears entirely. Hill is shown ordering pizza delivery and settling in at home, snuggled up with her dog — a deliberate contrast to the backstage churn of hair, makeup, and quick changes. It’s the kind of downtime that doesn’t get much screen time in modeling content generally, and Vogue leans into it here specifically to show the gap between the runway persona and the person once the show is over.
That contrast is the whole point of the “Diary of a Model” format: pairing the adrenaline of a show like Anna Sui’s with the quiet, ordinary stretch of an evening at home. The crew behind the episode — Rachel Batashvili on camera, Lily van Leeuwen handling sound, Leah Boatright editing, and Jack Tashdjian on color — built the whole thing around that whiplash, cutting from backstage bustle to a couch and a dog without much ceremony in between.
Hill’s fashion week credentials extend well past one Anna Sui show, and Vogue’s diary format has followed other models through similarly unglamorous backstage stretches — the kind of behind-the-scenes footage that pairs naturally with coverage of what’s actually driving seasonal style choices off the runway. For Hill, the episode ends where fashion week always eventually does: not on a runway, but on a couch, with the next call time still to come.
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