Venezuelan beauty América González walked more runway shows than any other model in spring 2022, clocking 30 by the finish line. Today we find her covering the September 2022 issue of Vogue Korea, wearing Prada Fall-Winter 2022 looks inside and out. styled by Kihoh Sohn. Photographer Hyea W. Kang [IG] is behind the lens, with Kihoh Sohn answering the question ‘Who’s That Girl?’

She is América González, a Prada girl who exhibited relentless determination to get that cover.

New girls are never discovered in a shopping mall somewhere in the world and then whisked off first class to Milan. An agent isn’t waiting to greet her with flowers on her arrival, installing her in a suite at a top hotel, before sending her off to Prada or Versace for her first booking.

América González began her pilgimage to 30 fall 2022 runway shows in 2019 . . . staring a fundraiser to get her from South America, wrote British Vogue. With a whopping $200 raised, her mother lent her $300, which got her as far as Miami. She then launched a campaign among her East Coast relatives to support her dreams with more money. And no, she was not accepting their donations of a ticket back to Venezuela.