If you've been snoozing for a while, you may have not noticed there's a total Kardashian-Hilton renaissance going on and we are here. for. it.
Cast your mind back, and you will recall it was Kim K's konnection to the original pay-me-to-party girl Paris Hilton that got her famous in the first place.
Before being seen out with Hilton, Kardashian's claim to fame was that her father was O.J. Simpson's attorney, but that was when she was a child.
In her late teen years, the entrepreneurial home-schooler started to make use of her childhood connections and rich neighbours by sorting through their closets, including Paris Hilton's.
Which their is plenty of evidence of:
Soon enough, their business partnership transformed into a firm friendship, and Paris stepped out with Kim, giving her the limelight she needed to transform from closet cleaner to paparazzi fodder.
But after a year-or-so of blissful, mutually beneficial friendship, something changed, and it may have had something to do with two home-videos.
After that, a lot changed, and they were friends no longer.
Both made a point to knock the other down over the next few years.
With pretty hilarious results.
Thankfully, after ten years, a couple more husbands, and some babies, Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton appear to be bezzies once more.
Our first inclination that the love-in was back appeared in October of last year, when Kardashian posted an iconic snap of herself, elder sister Kourtney Kardashian and Hilton boogying to the beat in true noughties style.
Kim had only recently introduced red into her usual metallic/beige/black Instagram colour pallet, so this was a big deal.
Then, earlier this year we got given a gift so great we could hardly handle it - Paris Hilton fronting the Yeezy 6 campaign as a Kim K clone.
Kardashian paid tribute to Hilton's tribute by hashtagging her post of the campaign #ForeverTheOG, proving she knows exactly what Hilton did for her career.
As if this wasn't enough, Hilton herself has been hanging out with the Kardashian matriarch and mogul, Kris Jenner.
The pair posted identical pics of themselves embracing at Rachel Zoe's fashion show.
Again referencing their not-so humble beginnings, Kardashian took a moment away from her baby Chicago and Kylie's newborn Stormi to post a serious TBT.
The grainy photo showed a younger Kim sprawled on what looks like a boat. Her caption revealed it was taken by pal Paris back in 2007 on none-other than her era-defining Blackberry phone.
We're crossing our fingers that this isn't the end of the Kardashian-Hilton love-fest. In fact, how can we get Nicole Richie and Li-Lo involved too?
Daisy Murray is the Digital Fashion Editor at ELLE UK, spotlighting emerging designers, sustainable shopping, and celebrity style. Since joining in 2016 as an editorial intern, Daisy has run the gamut of fashion journalism - interviewing Molly Goddard backstage at London Fashion Week, investigating the power of androgynous dressing and celebrating the joys of vintage shopping.
