Luiza Brunet is a former top model, a beauty icon since she sprung from the magazines’ covers in the early 1980s. Having come from a very poor family of native indigenous ascendants, she made her way up as a true symbol of the typical Brazilian beauty. Bold, Luiza has always been a step ahead in the fashion world and dared to pose naked to sell the imagine of an independent woman who has control over her own body. She instantly became a sex symbol, but managed to metamorphose into an object of admiration, and not only desire. 

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Laura Malin captures, with intensity, how Luiza went from trying to save her mother and sisters from her father’s violence, while working as a cleaning lady at age 10, to being the number one top model of Brazil ten years later.

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