Next Questions — Blanca Padilla

NEW YORK — “I think it’s really good to always try to be better than the day before,” says Blanca Padilla. “It takes effort. It takes determination, but it works.” Blanca ought to know this more than most. The beauty from Madrid has long enjoyed a well established modeling career having achieved everything from landing a cover of her native Vogue España to walking in the 2014 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. For most models, this would have been enough, but Blanca is not most models. Before the shows in September were even so much as a mood board, Blanca had set her sights on something bigger, something which would eventually culminate into a semi-exclusive for Givenchy. This sort of exclusivity is very often reserved for models making their debut, the reality of which made the honor all the more special. That Blanca was also the only model in a cast of over 50 girls to wear not one, but two looks is no mean feat, one which bolsters her very thesis of being better than the day before today. Blanca has always boasted a beauty that is almost maddening in its perfection, but added to her aesthetic appeal is a newfound complexity, the likes of which makes her first choice today and most certainly tomorrow. Credits include: Title, “Next Questions — Blanca Padilla”; Interview and video, Damien Neva at Next Management; Model, Blanca Padilla.