Mariano Vivanco Is 'Big on Smalls' -- Joan That Is -- For ES Magazine Feb. 17, 2017
/Top model Joan Smalls is styled by Grant Woolhead in 'Big On Smalls' lensed by Mariano Vivanco for Evening Standard ES Magazine February 17th, 2017./ Hair by Kayla MiChele; makeup by Niki M'Nray
Interviewed by Tilly Macalister-Smith, Smalls reflects on her family, growing up in Puerto Rico, her boyfriend of seven years, Bernard Smith, founder of the members club Modellounge, and -- yes, Hillary Clinton:
It’s also the reason she voted for Hillary Clinton in the US election: ‘You come from this leader that everybody saw as hope and had such a beautiful message throughout all these years and encouraged people and gave them this uplift, you know.’ Trump’s win, she says, was a ‘shock’: ‘It feels regressive and he’s not inclusive of everyone, and it’s not the message I believe in… That’s not the way I was raised. And I’m not into politics but it’s just the character. It’s a representative of your country, and when you travel people are going to have that association.’