{"id":75696,"date":"2026-04-20T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=75696"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:48:23","slug":"silvia-arenas-went-from-shanghai-to-paris-to-debut-at-chanel-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/75696","title":{"rendered":"Silvia Arenas Went From Shanghai to Paris To Debut at Chanel Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.gallery-item .gallery-caption {\n    font-size: .6rem;\n    color: #444;\n    margin: 0.6rem;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see 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Thanks to Zekja and Max.<\/div>\n<div class=\"writeup\">\n<h2>interview<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/silvia-arenas\">Silvia Arenas<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/silvia__arenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@silvia__arenas<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronouns:<\/strong><br \/>\nshe\/her<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agency:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/\/models.com\/agency\/mouna-models\">Mouna Models (Amsterdam)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong><br \/>\n34<\/p>\n<p><strong>Height:<\/strong><br \/>\n5&#8217;11.5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place of Origin:<\/strong><br \/>\nBarcelona, Spain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethnic Origin:<\/strong><br \/>\nCatalan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birthsign:<\/strong><br \/>\nSagittarius<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Did you always want to be a model? Tell us about how you were discovered.<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a kid, I always wanted to be a ballet dancer, but the path organically shifted to modeling when I was 16 years old. I kept studying, and it was never my full-time job, and for all these years, it was all about rejections, disappointments, and dealing with a lot of frustration. Before giving up, I decided to give it one last chance, and luckily I signed with my current mother agency, and well, you could call it &#8220;being in the right time at the right place.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be forever grateful to them for giving me the opportunity and for seeing my potential at my age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most memorable modeling experience so far? <\/strong><br \/>\nTo be honest, everything so far this year has been memorable! I can definitely feel the Fire Horse energy. Going all the way from Shanghai to Paris and having my debut with Chanel Haute Couture&#8230; Come on! A moment I had been waiting all my life to happen&#8230; being in the atelier at Rue Cambon, walking through the Tuileries, the show at the Grand Palais, my friends doing watch parties back home&#8230; those days felt like being in a movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One song you have on repeat, and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nPneuma by TOOL. The album came out the year I moved to the Netherlands, and I remember listening to it on loop for days. Almost seven years later, I still can&#8217;t get enough of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What other passions do you have aside from modeling?<\/strong><br \/>\nPhotography. I spend a lot of time behind the camera as well. My practice spans from documenting art exhibitions, going to artists&#8217; studios to register their processes, portraying them, to capturing what and who surrounds me in my everyday life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is something you\u2019ve always wanted to do\/try?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen possible, I would love to adopt a greyhound. Or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one thing people may be surprised to find out about you?<\/strong><br \/>\nThat I don&#8217;t have a driver&#8217;s license! But I love washing cars. Every time we stop at a gas station with my partner, while he refuels, I have to take that grimy squeegee thing and clean all the windows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What change would you like to see in the world?<\/strong><br \/>\nI would like to see a world where no one is disposable, where we dismantle systems that profit from war, exploitation, and domination, and we replace them with care, justice, and collective liberation for all beings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvia was photographed exclusively for MODELS.com by Zoe Karssen (assisted by Thijs Bosma), with hair &#038; makeup by Elise Haman-Van Berkel. 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