Juanpa Zurita told how she came to model in Fashion Week: “I didn't grow up consuming fashion”

The young creator of Mexican content, Juanpa Zurita, has become one of the most successful and controversial characters on social media in Mexico, his great relevance is derived from the various projects he has added throughout his young career, such as his project Love Army Mexico, as well as his participation in the Netflix series Luis Miguel .

On this occasion, the histrion also emphasized his experience as a model, when in 2017 he was invited to participate in a Dolce & Gabbana show during Fashion Week in Milan, Italy.

“It wasn't even something I was looking for, I wasn't into fashion, I didn't know couture brands. I start to gain traction on social networks and I see that brands in Mexico start to look at me. At that time, anything that fell on the plate was a giant opportunity because it was a time where there was no credibility, nobody knew what this was,” recalled the driver.

“Stefano (Gabbana) follows me on Instagram and starts commenting 'Haha' on all my sketches. I read it, I pick his account, I see a verified guy working out at home and I don't know who he is... I didn't grow up consuming fashion, I wasn't with that information,” he added about how was the first approach with the co-founder and designer of the house Dolce & Gabbana.

Later, and to Juanpa's surprise, his representative had an approach with the Italian designer where he was offered to model for the renowned brand at Milan Fashion Week in 2017, so his representative drove the young youtuber's decision.

“I said, 'What do you think, do I do it? ' and he said, 'This is crazy, you have to go. ' I throw myself to Milan, first class ticket, I get to stay in a spectacular hotel, they are treating me like royalty. I remember that on the plane my manager sends me a document with the history of the brand, who they were”, he went into depth.

“You arrive and they have a whole dynamic: first you go to a costume event, there is Dominico and Stefano, I was lucky enough to let me choose and Stefano recognized me: I watched the comedy sketches in English, and he said 'Which one do you want? ' . Because of comedy I came to model in Milan, it's very bizarre. At that time I saw it as something that added to my career,” he emphasized.

During the talk, which lasted just over two hours, the 26-year-old content creator stressed how difficult it is to deal with fame at such a young age: “It's very difficult, don't get dizzy in success, it's really obscene, you're with the sons of pure heavy artist, the daughters of Sylvester Stallone... sons who are used to another kind of lifestyle”.

“The day comes, you go to makeup, some gigantic salons and it's time to parade, and I said, 'What am I going to do? ' Then the time comes and I remember that there were 3 steps and I said: 'You have to look cool, you can't turn down'. So I go, I do, I don't step on any steps and my mentality, even if it sounds like a jerk, was thinking 'Everyone peels it off', projecting security to the fullest. It seemed to me that I had to live in the moment,” he added.

Finally, the host of a podcast with Spotify, recalled that the day after the show “I had never received as much press as at that time, they treated me as a national hero, the first Mexican to parade [...] I think I was the first Mexican of a certain age to do it, but there was something important about the note that I don't remember,” he concluded.

Changing the subject, that was not the only interaction that both content creators had, later, Juanpa invited his colleague to participate in his YouTube channel in the dynamic that he named Aventando Roberto MTZ of Parachutes, which already has just over 300,000 views.

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