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Oriol Elcacho's is the usual story. He says that he started in fashion by chance, when a beauty hunter saw him as a clerk in a sports store and offered to try his luck. So this Barcelonan was studying business. His career as a top model has earned him the image of such important forms as Gucci and Ralph Lauren, and his university studies have helped them start their own business.
Kate Moss can earn 12 million euros a year with campaigns and catwalk
Elcacho is a producer of wine, a praised broth that has already garnered the occasional award. Traca i Mocador, the DO Monstant red is called, and the company is going from strength to strength. The idea arose in the summer of 2013, when Oriol met up again with an old friend, Josep Borràs, whom he had not seen for a long time. At the Mas de les Vinyes estate, in the small town of Cabacés (Tarragona), Josep's father had taken up the family wine tradition. And between drinks and words, Oriol and Josep decided to jump into the pool. The result is this fresh and young wine, with 60% Garnacha grapes, which received the Elle Gourmet award for best business venture. The photographer Carlos Puig Padilla chose him to water his successful exhibition Being psicodelic at the Majestic in Barcelona. It is the fashionable wine.
Elcacho, who lives between New York and Barcelona -like his girlfriend, the top Davinia Pelegrí-, has found a path to follow once her modeling career begins to fade. Because we are also talking about one of the few professional fields in which men earn less than women. The queens of fashion usually charge, in an international campaign, about 600.00 euros, according to data from the Viewmore Agency, responsible, in part, for the Spanish tops to triumph in half the world. One of Andrés Velencoso's most famous campaigns was that of Allure by Dior, for which he charged around 200,000 euros, the same as Elcacho charged for his campaign with Ralph Lauren. The figures are different from those of the tops. If Kate Moss can earn 12 million euros a year with campaigns and catwalk, it is difficult for a male model to reach a million.
Jon Kortajarena tries to gain a foothold as an actor with little success
Logic pushes most models to find a niche in the cinema. This is what Andrés Velencoso (37) has done. The first acting appearance of Kyle Minogue's ex and Úrsula Corberó's current partner was in 2004 in the video clip of the hit El cielo no nombre, directed by JA Bayona (Lo imposible) for the group OBK. Velencoso's consecration came with Fin (2013), where he shared the poster with Maribel Verdú and, currently, he has won a regular role in the series B & B (Telecinco), together with Belén Rueda.
Velencoso shares an agent, Antonio Rubial, with Jon Kortajarena (30). The man from Bilbao participated in the film A Single Man (2009), directed by Tom Ford, his friend and his designer. The film was nominated for an Oscar and despite the fact that Kortajarena shared the poster with actors such as Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, his participation went somewhat unnoticed. His career as an actor is still stagnant and his efforts are not few: a couple of years ago he moved to Los Angeles to study acting. He has two films pending release: The Content of Silence, with Goya Toledo, and Andròn-The Black Labyrinth, alongside Alec Baldwin.
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They earn more. KateMoss can bill 12 million for campaigns. Velencoso hardly reaches a million
After more than 10 years of career as a model (he made his debut in 2003), Kortajarena barely appears on the catwalk because he prefers to focus on advertising and developing his skills as an actor, something that he has also been able to show in music videos, such as the last of Madonna, Bitch I'm Madonna, in which she makes a (mini) appearance. One of the lesser known facets of him is his defense of the environment. Since 2010, the top has been an ambassador for former Vice President Al Gore's project, The Climate Change, in Spain and Latin America.
Much more mundane is the alternative business of David Guilló (37). This handsome journeyman, he keeps up a good pace of work, with campaigns for DSquared and Dunhill. He is reminded of a relationship with the spectacular Adriana Lima and with the American actress Holly Gagnier. He has two children, Diego and Mayra, and also has a stake in an air conditioning installation company, Climad Soluciones, in Madrid, where he lives. This independent investment in the world of fashion is the one that he could dedicate himself to if things go wrong.
How could Christian Santamaría (30) do the same? This top was discovered by a modeling agency when he was preparing to become a Mosso d'Esquadra. And at first he combined both careers. Until he rose to international fame with campaigns like Davidoff's. Now he is dedicated to fashion, but he can always go back to being a police officer. With a five-year-old daughter from a relationship with a Brazilian model, Santamaría is another model who is clear that the catwalk is outdated.
Javier de Miguel abandoned his studies in Art History to focus on his career as a model
Another Spanish name that sounds powerful on international catwalks is Javier de Miguel (22). This top, who has worked for Armani, Gucci and L'Oreal, is living his career to the fullest without thinking too much about his future. He halfway left his Art History degree, studies that he hopes to finish one day, and meanwhile, he combines his modeling jobs with a blog in a magazine. He doesn't stop to think about his future. "I always say that I don't have a plan B for when I finish my career as a model," says De Miguel on his blog, a quality diary in which he writes both current affairs and issues of his daily life. He can always dedicate himself to this putting letters together. He's pretty good at it.
Perhaps it is De Miguel's youth that connects him with Adrián Bosch (27), another Spanish top (although born in Denmark), who currently lives focused on his career as a model. With very marked features and an image far removed from the rest of his teammates, this Barça fan is Hedi Slimane's spoiled child for Dior Homme, so for the moment he doesn't think about anything else. He is still surprised to see his face in the Tokyo subway.
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