The New Luxury

Marga Esquivel got her big break at 19 when she walked in Gucci’s resort 2016 show -- a major win for any model. A year later, however, she decided to leave the modeling business behind. Four seasons of the show circuit had been enough to prove to her that high-fashion modeling was less than idyllic. “My 15-year-old dreams about what the job would be like were much more difficult in reality,” she said, echoing a realization shared by many current and former models.