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90 || FASHION MAGAZINE || NOVEMBER 2014FMM: Tell me about your painting-your style and what you most like to paint?AV: I always have a few different styles of paintings I work on at the same time; I find it is very stimulating for the imagination and helps to improve each technique. At the moment, I work a lot on abstract painting, but it is very geometrical and I do a lot of work on textures. I also paint a lot of feminine figures, very colorful. I also very much enjoy painting very realistic animals.FMM: Who is your role model? What inspires you?AV: That is a hard question; no one is perfect, and everyone make mistakes. But my parents are real role models for me; they are very generous, always kind and helping, supportive for anything, loyal to each other and to their friends. You can count on them. That is the kind of person I want to be, and that%u2019s what inspires me. I want my friends to know that they can count on me and my loyalty; being trustworthy is one of the most important things for me.FMM: What do you find is the hardest thing about modeling?AV: Many things are hard about modeling. People don%u2019t always understand that. It%u2019s more, %u201coh being a model is easy, you just have to be pretty,%u201d but it%u2019s so much more than that. For every shoot, you have to become a new character: sometimes strong, sometimes sweet, sometimes fearful, but that%u2019s the interesting part of the job! What is very hard usually are the conditions. It happens a lot that you have to shoot with very light clothes on in the winter in the street all day long and still have to look pretty in pictures! Fashion shows can be pretty hard on the mood too.FMM: What do you see yourself doing in ten years?AV: Well I am very young at the moment, so it%u2019s pretty hard to have a vision ten years ahead. But for sure I%u2019d like to have an art gallery, and if everything works out for me, maybe still be modeling.FMM: You have said you work a lot as a freelancer, do you find that has been a better way to meet people and find work?AV: Yes definitely! I think only working through an agency makes you become kind of lazy about developing your own network. It is really important for me not to depend only on the contacts of an agency. But of course working in an agency has many advantages also; it offers you security, and they give you advice about your career, etc.FMM: If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?AV: Many things deserve to be changed I think. But if we could make people stop fighting and have no more wars and conflicts between nations, maybe we would have more energy to take care of other major problems like lack of water, food, and poverty in some countries.FMM: Do you enjoy traveling? If you could go anywhere right now, where would you go?AV: More than enjoy, I truly love traveling, meeting new people, discovering new places, new cultures, and new landscapes. It one of the things I love the most. Traveling makes everything more exciting. If I had the time, I would love to be in Brazil right now. I think I left my heart in Rio last summer when I went to visit that wonderful city!