Like all the days leading up to a major global event, the organizational preparations for the participation of 30 countries in the final of World Top Model 2023 at Twiga in Monte-Carlo, hosted by Flavio Briatore, were feverish. This continued until the evening of February 25, 2024, when the audience had the opportunity to applaud the 30 young finalists who vied for victory, elegantly displaying their beauty. Here’s what this highly anticipated finale was: a spectacle of pure beauty, but not just physical. In fact, the 30 beautiful Top Models demonstrated with skill and elegance, attitude, and intelligence, their ability to interpret their role of “eternal femininity,” femininity in its immutable essence. (cf. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “das Ewig Weibliche”).
It is worth noting that World Top Model, with its 34 years of history and its national finals in more than 50 countries and on 5 continents, is considered one of the most prestigious international beauty contests. “It was truly a beautiful emotion,” intervenes Patron Fiore Tondi, “to see once again that the World Top Model operation has reached many countries around the world, respecting all the standards of my professional and personal ethics. I have always wanted to create, in my fantastic world, an atmosphere of sincere friendship, like that of a large family, and it is a pleasure for me to have succeeded in creating an event dedicated to the world of beauty, with the true rules of total respect and esteem for women.”
In your opinion, what does beauty represent in a woman, and what are the characteristics that allow winning the “World Top Model”? “Femininity, charisma, and moral standards.” What does enrollment in the “World Top Model” Academy offer a girl? “I want to emphasize that enrollment in the Academy is completely ‘free’ and offers girls a 360-degree training course with professionalism in a serene and familiar atmosphere. We try to give models a dream and create real job opportunities.
This is our strength, as demonstrated by the fact that, in its thirty-year history, many personalities have been part of it and supported us: Claudia Schiffer, Valeria Mazza, Nina Moric, Brigitte Nielsen, Grace Jones, Marcus Schenkenberg, Raz Degan, Randi Ingerman, Aldo Coppola, Renato Balestra, Gerry Scotti, Fiorello, Amedeo Minghi, Mietta, Gabriella Carlucci, Zucchero, and Alessia Marcuzzi. “Are you satisfied with how things went here at “Twiga” in Monte-Carlo? “Certainly yes, the victory of the Indonesian model encourages us to bring the competition to that country.” At the end of the evening, the young student from Milan, Margherita Cocciolo, was presented, who was the first Italian enrolled in the Academy, which will take place in Puglia. “I must say she is very beautiful, and I really hope to see her again next September at the Academy.”
Is there a next time planned, again in Monte-Carlo? “We’ll see, we’ll evaluate in the coming weeks with our sponsors the opportunity for a return, which I do not exclude at all. I take this opportunity to thank all my collaborators, who have once again been fabulous, the prestigious Jury, and all the sponsors who continue to support us, but also the renewed great friend of Monte-Carlo, editor Ilio Masprone, who hosts us in the magazines MonteCarloTimes and Orizzonte Italia, and the Publisher of Fashion Wow Magazine Alessandra Luti: a wonderful opportunity for all our finalist models.” An evening during which the new 2024 Edition of Fashion Wow was also presented to the models and guests.
By Cristiano Gatti (Photos by World Top Model)
