RUGIADA GUIDI

My name is Rugiada Guidi and I am 19 years old. I was born in a small village named Fiorenzuola d'Arda, in the province of Piacenza, in north Italy. At the moment, I am finishing high school specializing in modern languages: English, Spanish and French. Then, I would like to continue to improve my education attending the Faculty of Interpreting and Communication at a University in Milan next year. I've always liked foreign languages, I'm fascinated by different cultures, different lifestyles and I hope someday they will give me the chance to travel the world as I wish. I have always had a passion for fashion and cinema but I really got in touch with this world at the age of 13 when they asked me to take part in a beauty contest. I was very young at the time, though I was already able to walk on my high heels. So I decided to participate anyway and I got second place! Ever since then it has grown into an obsession. I started attending contests after contests at a regional level and always succeeded in bringing home the first or second beauty queen sash. In 2016 I won two titles: ‘Miss 6 days of Roses’ and ‘Lady Miss Val d'Arda’. Tutored by my model agency ‘Nuova Futura Immagine IL Sogno’ in Salso Maggiore, the second title allowed me to join in the national finals in the city of Taranto, in Apulia, south Italy, where I successfully managed to get another first place on the beauty podium. This victory was a gateway to many career opportunities. I was invited as a guest of honor at different events in my area and I started working in this sector doing what I like best. That's how I began expanding my horizons trying hard with more modelling agencies. I also attended drama and film classes that have increased my desire to work inside this world even more. Today, I am working for four agencies in Milan, I do a lot of lingerie fashion shows, and I also model for many fashion companies specialized in evening gowns or wedding dresses having the pleasure of collaborating with competent, professional photographers. Moreover, I always take the opportunity to go to Milan to participate in various castings and try to be recruited by TV agencies or why not get a part into a movie. I do not know if mine can be defined as a real career but it is a dream that I hope will last over time. Having always lived in the countryside, my childhood friends weren’t other children but animals, and in particular horses of course! My parents used to own a farm with an equestrian center of doma vaquera and dressage. My father, Count Guido Pietro Paolo Guidi, was one of the first to bring Andalusian horses to Italy and to found an Academy of Equestrian Art. I therefore had the good fortune to grow up among horses that gradually have come to hold a very special place both in my life and in my heart. I went on horseback for the first time at 4 years and from that moment on it can be said that I have never got down a horse! I have never tried to do any kind of competition at a competitive level because I have never seen the horse as a sport but only as a faithful friend I can share wonderful moments with. From the mighty Andalusian horses that characterized my childhood I then moved to the Arabian horse world thanks to my mother's companion and famous handler Franck Boetto who is still like a father to me. Through him, I met these beautiful and charismatic animals that never cease to amaze me. Going with Frank at shows, I have been able to get more familiar with this environment, attending several competitions. I find a strong analogy between the fashion shows I do on catwalk and the beauty contests with Arabian horses because they are judged for the same reason as I am, for their beauty. It is indeed a connection that made me very fond of this peculiar horse breed. I am extremely fascinated by the nobility of this animal, the harmony of his shape and his type, his extreme elegance that make him the star that actually is in the whole world.