The fashion destiny of Blanca Padilla, Spanish supermodel spotted in the Madrid metro

With her, everything seems to flow naturally with a vaguely sacrilegious ease that intrigues.

Imagine an 18-year-old girl, admittedly six feet tall, so tall that she seems unapproachable, with the bearing of an Infanta and the gaze of a conquistador.

In short, let's face it: stunning beauty.

This young girl is in the metro, in Madrid.

She returns home after her college classes, thinks about her homework, her next partials, loves her quiet life, still has childhood dreams, when suddenly chance falls on her: a talent scout notices her and

her the moon.

It was ten years ago.

In video, behind the scenes of a Madame Figaro shoot with Blanca Padilla in 2018

A wonderful adventure

This is how, in the blink of an eye, the fate of Blanca Padilla capsizes.

"I didn't come from a fashion background.

Neither did my family.

We had no idea what we were getting into.

We thought and then presto, we plunged into the unknown without knowing what awaited us.

Maybe it was better because the young supermodel's career took off immediately after she signed with Next Model Management, one of the big modeling agencies.

“The most incredible of adventures was beginning, she remembers today.

I learned so much and I'm so grateful to those who trusted me."

The most prestigious photographers claim it.

The designers too.

They saw that she wore the mantilla as well as the cap, the strict tailor of

than the sequined minishorts from the

I think I have my feet on the ground, I know how to measure my luck

Blanca Padilla

A gift from heaven

First there was the move to New York.

“Here again my parents supported me.

They did not really understand the need for me to leave Madrid, but they accompanied me with their eyes closed in my new life.

She spends her time on planes, travels to the four corners of the world without having time to breathe, decides to trust those around her, to take advantage of each of the experiences, offered as a gift from heaven, while trying to don't forget who she is.

“If you allow yourself to be intoxicated by everything that happens to you on a set (the parades, the trips, the big hotels, the life that seems to be organized around you) by forgetting your roots and your origins, you are finished.

I think I have my feet on the ground, I know how to measure my luck, take advantage of it and share it with those around me,

Blanca Padilla: “Forgetting your roots and your origins, you are finished” Photos Nicolas Valois.

Directed by Julie Gillet.

Dior makeup by Cyril Lanoir.

Hair Cyril Lanoir.

Kindness and curiosity

That's why this beautiful girl remains solar.

And close to his family: Blanca has remained Spanish.

Of heart.

“I love my country, its warmth, its sense of hospitality, friendship, family.

I also love him for his bad temper, for his excesses, his anger, his excesses in tragedy as in laughter.

Don't you find that we are in a world so disrupted that this ability to laugh, this desire to have fun, to dance, to sing that I feel at home is very necessary today?

Blanca Padilla, the beautiful look

In images, in pictures

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For Blanca Padilla, fashion is not just an exercise in style or a simple job.

It is a human experience.

Provided you live it with a certain height.

“You understand, a parade, it can be five minutes spent on a catwalk presenting clothes.

It's already good.

But if it turns into meetings, exchanges of points of view, life lessons, then the job becomes really exciting.

He opens up to others, to the difference.

It becomes as constructive as a university course.

For that, you need kindness and curiosity.”

The environment is very competitive, everyone is afraid of being outdated

Blanca Padilla

Blanca doesn't like the battle of egos that this profession can cause.

"It's kind of normal for them to show up.

The environment is very competitive.

People are afraid of no longer being attractive, of no longer being up to date, of being old-fashioned.

It's true for everyone, the designers, the photographers, the models, the financiers who are behind this industry.

All the more reason to keep your cool.”

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“Learning from failures”

According to her, every experience is a lesson.

Both good and bad learn to know who we are and in which world we want to evolve.

“Savoring success is rewarding.

Learning from chess is perhaps even more so.

We discover our ability to accept, to forgive, to understand what is important in life and to give it meaning.”

Fashion for Blanca also allows history to be written in front of her.

“It is an extremely rich means of expression.

It is the mirror of the society in which we live, which restores value to time (especially in haute couture, when we know that a dress can require 800 hours of work), to materials, to know-how, to craftsmanship.

Fashion has also become aware of the efforts to be made to save the planet.

It's a paradoxical world,