ONE IN A SERIES OF PHOTOS AND CAPTIONS RUNNING THROUGHOUT FASHION WEEK SLUGGED "MODELS OF THE WORLD," EXPLORING THE LIVES OF MODELS
Fashion model Dasha Jold, 18, of Yekaterinburg, Russia, has her nails done backstage before the Monique Lhuillier Spring 2015 collection show Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, during Fashion Week in New York. Jold was scouted on the street in her native Russia, at age 17. She struggles sometimes with homesickness, but says that keeping in touch through services like Skype helps ease those feelings. "I'm not missing the place, I'm missing the people there," Jold says, speaking about her hometown. Asked about the hardest aspect of modeling, she mentions the physical demands of the job. She explains that sometimes you just "need to recover, vacation, and then you can be fresh again - your skin, your head" and, she says laughing, "your feet." Jold is guarded when speaking about her future in modeling, with evolving milestones. "This is my secret which I keep inside, and I'm trying to reach these things. I'm not trying to say, 'Oh, I wanna do that, and when I will do that I will just stop modeling,' " she explains. "You are getting more and more goals with time. So you are reaching something, and then you have a new goal, something bigger." (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)