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    Brazilian Beauty

    Oct 06, 2020 6 minutes
    By Mikelle Street + Photography by Alex La Cruz (@shotbylacruz)

    Valentina Sampaio is one of the most in-demand models out there. In the last five years alone she’s booked multiple Vogue covers and appeared in projects for Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated, making history every step of the way.

    Over the span of her short career, Sampaio has bounced around the fashion world — shooting in London, working in New York, and walking fashion shows in Milan. She was just getting started when the pandemic caused the world (and the fashion industry) to stop. Now back in her native Brazil, the trailblazing model is mostly twiddling her thumbs with family in the fishing village she was raised in.

    “It’s always amazing to come back home and stay close with [my family] and spend time with them,” Sampaio says on a Zoom call from São Paulo. She’s visiting there from her hometown of Aquiraz — a village in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil

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