Jeisa Chiminazzo

Here’s a translated article with an interesting Q&A portion with Jeisa from Erika Palomino’s site.

CONVERSATIONS: Jeisa Chiminazzo speaks of the most memorable places and events she has been a part of and more

FASHIONISTA
June 19, 2008

SUMMER 2009 - Jeisa Chiminazzo just reached ten years of her career. This beautiful one started working in the fashion business when she was only 13 years and now lives in NY. She has an extensive resume of fashion shows, editorials and catalogues to prove how powerful she has become in the Fashion Planet. Living in NY for nine years, she gave way to be a part of the SPFW parade for Animale.

Among her most recent works are the ones for K of Karl Lagerfeld (who’s a perpetual fan of the model), Gap and Victoria’s Secret. At the backstage of Animale, Jeisa speaks about being on top, memorable moments of her career, being a model, her vacations, her day-to-day activities and more…

Q&A with Jeisa Chiminazzo
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[Editor’s note: Here is the article in El País Semanal (May 2006) originally translated by stersita of TFS.]

The main feature of this session is the Brazilian model of the moment. She’s intelligent and pragmatic, she understands finances and shares birthday with Lindsay Lohan, Sean Lennon and Kate Moss. She has been working since she was 13, and now, at 21, she now owns both multimillionaire campaigns and real estate properties.

She arrived at 9:05 for her photography session with El Pais Semanal, which takes place at an old harbor zone on Buenos Aires. She’s dressed with the usual uniform every model above a certain level wears: a Balenciaga jacket, jeans and a pair of Chanel boots which aren’t selling on shops yet. (“I didn’t steal them” assures Jeisa referring to her boots. “Karl gave them to me as a present.”) The chat, however, stops soon. It’s time for her make-up and hair, 45 minutes of passive inactivity during which models abuse of their new generation mobile phones. But not Jeisa. She has the phone off the whole day (“Why should I pay if I have an agent?” she questions), and instead, starts reading the business section of The New York Times.

A couple of hours later, during lunch time, she investigates asking the local producer about the effects US dollars have on Argentina’s economy and it’s impact on properties’ prices on Buenos Aires. She analyses the difference in price between a squared meter of land in Brazil—where she was born, Manhattan, Los Angeles and London, and summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of living in New York. Clearly, saying models are stupid is totally wrong.

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