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Claudia Schiffer shared an old photo with Valeria Mazza and the Argentinean top replied. It is a black and white photo taken by Peter Lindberg, in which the two are seen smiling, with their hair up, playing a game of pin pong. "Sporty summer," wrote the German model by way of description, and tagged her Argentinean colleague. Mazza, in turn, picked up the gauntlet and fired back: "Let's finish the game! Just tell me when and where.
Beyond the memory and the "friendly" exchange between the models, it is very eloquent that both the photograph and Mazza's response speak of a competition. For years, the two blondes sparked off sparks on and under the catwalks.
In November 1998, while Menemism was taking its last breaths, one of the last great events was held in Buenos Aires with the condiments that marked that era: frivolity, pizza, champagne and glamour. The steps of the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires became an improvised catwalk where two of the world's greatest supermodels showed, together with local colleagues, some of the creations of the most famous Argentine designers and clothing brands: Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer charged, according to the chronicles of those days, 100 thousand dollars each to participate in the event, which was called Buenos Aires for Argentine fashion. Among the vernacular goddesses, one acted as "hostess": Valeria Mazza, who by that time had established herself, like María Inés Rivero and Yamila Díaz-Rahi, on the great catwalks of the world. It was she,...