Then, T ony was the one who started making ugly girls actually look beautiful, or made beautiful girls look ugly. On.Ignorance: Who was this “mystery man” in your life: Tony Viramontes?Įugenia Melián: Tony became in his time an icon to fashion magazines because he came after the illustrator Antonio Lopez, who glamorized his models, who were beautiful and posed in a very glamorous way. While she talks, a few crows come to peck at the door of one of the terraces of the home.” Go away! Shoo! Get out!” she yells at them, angry because the birds are stealing the food of her “poor squirrels.” As my gaze lifts from the floor it is impossible not to notice the enormous neck sticking out from the garden vegetation.” Is that a pink giraffe?” The microworld in which Eugenia Melian wrote Wildchilds, in this small area in the East Bay of San Francisco turns around on his own axis. “One of the most beautiful landscapes in the world is being destroyed, it’s devastating,” then she sips a coffee cup.
The afternoon is ending and yet the heat is still unbearable. Image: Eugenia Melian by Ethan James Green. “I wrote for three years, I wrote all day, every day, I wrote Saturdays and I wrote Sundays.” The result of that titanic effort was Wildchilds, a novel where “beautiful people do ugly things,” a fiction, “because with fiction you can tell the truth.” Then, one day, a few years ago, she lost her “mojo” and gave a radical turn to her career, becoming a full-time writer. Beyond the fashion world, she represented talents like the avant-garde music artist Matthew Herbert or the contemporary dancer Blanca Li. The agent of iconic artists writes a vivid novel about the ugliness and beauty in the fashion business.įor more than three decades, Eugenia Melián worked as an agent in the fashion industry, launching or managing careers such as the ones of the iconic illustrator Tony Viramontes, the photographer David LaChapelle or, the also photographer and director, Peggy Sirota.
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