Naomi Campbell’s – don’t flying lessons wipes! forget the wet

As the supermodel reveals her in-flight Crisell routine, Hattie investigates the travel set strategies of the jet

Nobody would be foolhardy enough to dispute that Naomi Campbell is a goddess among humans. And she’s now conquered Youtube, too. Try, I dare you, to look away from the fascinating video she recently posted on her Naomi channel. Called ‘Naomi Campbell’s Airport Routine: Come Fly With Me’, in it, as she travels from France to Qatar, she shares the habits she’s developed as a jet-setting supermodel. She loves flying, she muses in her uniquely grand way: ‘I love being everywhere… but yet nowhere at the same time.’

We see her shopping at the airport, picking up mini Twixes, Haribo sweets and a magazine; so far, Naomi Campbell is all of us. But she’s also wearing silk Burberry pyjamas (trousers, £650; shirt, £790). And once she arrives in the first-class cabin of the plane – pausing only for a regal selfie on the stairs – she really takes things up a notch, whipping out a pair of rubber gloves and attacking every surface around her with disinfectant wipes. ‘This is what I do on every plane I get on. I do not care what people think of me. It’s my health and it makes me feel better.’

She then covers the chair with a blanket (‘They’re always handwashed at every hotel I go to’), shows the camera a bag of skincare products that she’ll be applying before the flight, and dons a surgical mask to protect her from any fellow passengers with colds. ‘The coughing and sneezing makes me… I just can’t,’ she says firmly.

It’s just what we love to see from Naomi: taking charge of her surroundings in a delightfully OTT way. And yet is it so OTT? On the health and safety front, my friend Kate Walsh could give Naomi a few tips. In her role as a managing director, some years she’s done up to 50 return flights. ‘I pack Vicks First Defence, honey lozenges, Sudafed and hand disinfectant. And I clean my teeth before everyone gets on-board, when the loos are cleanest,’ she confides.

As for what to wear, Grazia’s fashion director Rebecca Lowthorpe has solved the problem. ‘I have a navy blue, jersey all-inone – the equivalent of an adult babygro,’ she says. ‘I also take a soft scarf to wrap up in, and I wear a comfy sports-type bra.’

And next time she jets off, Rebecca’s putting some extra wet wipes in her hand luggage. After all, we can always learn something from Naomi.