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Lulu Bonfils for Wonderland Magazine FW 18 by Elliot & Erick

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Lulu Bonfils — born in 2000 — United States

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Inspo: Lulu Bonfils

Instagram: @louisvuittoncrocs

You have seen Lulu grace your instagram feeds and Savage Fenty runways alike. She is sugar sweet and real when she’s speaking about the ups and downs, and frankly BS,  of her industry and her life with chronic illness. Lulu has been Inspo since I met her, so it was only natural that we asked her(art major) to draw a tee for the line. Happy to roll this new blog area out with an interview with her.

Hot Lava: What have been you working on lately?

I haven’t had a formal job in a long time, so regular working days for me are few and far between. Lately, I’ve been filling all my time with drawing, cooking, cleaning, building things, learning how to take care of plants, doing brand collaborations, and prioritizing spending time in nature. I’m also trying to figure out the whole elimination diet thing. 
 What are some things you’ve been doing to prioritize “me time”?

I think the past couple months I’ve been focusing all my time on me time, relationship time, friend time, and family time. Though, I find all those things fall under me time. I’ve been doing every hobby of mine that makes me happy, learning new skills like home improvement, practicing new mediums in art, building things with my mom, and spending time on things that my job typically prevents me from doing, like redecorating my home.

Can you give us a small walk through on how you started out in your career, and what younger you would need to hear to get where you are?

I never sought out working in my career, but I did recognize there needed to be more bodies like mine in fashion. I was scouted at an opening party for the brand Me and You at 15, and from there was offered to do headshots at Cast Partner in Brooklyn. After taking headshots, they email blasted my photos to every agency in New York and I ended up signing to Wilhelmina NY and London shortly after and my career started from there. I was shown things in the fashion world that I was naive to & my eyes were quickly opened to how vicious and brutal the modeling world was to people. If I could tell my younger self one thing about my career it would be that you need to know who you are, your morals, your beliefs, your boundaries and your needs. No matter how hard people push for you to succumb to their wants, you must always assert your needs and boundaries because you will be put in compromising situations that test them. And everyone does not need to like you!! That is a sacrifice you have to make in the process of asserting your needs.Tell me your most embarrassing moment in your current career/relationship/ creative endeavor. I think the most embarrassing/hardest moment in both my career and relationship was when I got sick with a month long intestinal virus in Barcelona during a work trip. I got sick the day after I arrived and luckily my boyfriend was there to bring me back and forth from the hospital to the hotel. I was so ill immediately that I wasn’t able to do any of the work that I was flown out to complete, which is the epitome of embarrassing for me career wise. On top of that I was openly shitting my brains out next to my boyfriend, which also is super embarrassing. It was definitely a horrific experience that I wouldn’t wish on anyone & I’m still struggling with gut issues from it almost 2 years later! Luckily, we had been together for 2 years at that point so pooping in front of him wasn’t the scariest thing.

What causes you stress and how to ease those stresses?

Basically everything! I’m an over-thinker, to a fault. When I think so much to the point of anxiety & panic, meaning I’m ruminating on a thought to the point of obsession, is where the real stressing begins. I think almost everything happening in the world/America is extremely stressful for everyone in every way possible, and with very long term and life impacting issues. My only tactic to get myself through this is self soothing through activities, talk therapy, and speaking to myself. Each of us has activities that are meditative, calming, and force us to slow down and resist ruminating on harmful thoughts or things we can’t change. This is my main tactic for staying sane through everything that’s been happening. Making sculptures, drawing, cooking, exercising, are all forms of self soothing for me and they're the main ways I feel I can get through extremely hard emotions and thoughts to process.

Do you think about where you’d like to be in 5 years or even 1 year or are you more of “in the moment type”?

I tend to over-plan and get stuck on ideas of executing a perfect 5 year trajectory for myself & I realize it’s an anxious tendency that doesn’t best reflect the life situation I’m in. The modeling game is an extremely unstable career, as are many freelance gigs, and I’ve learned to lend myself to a schedule thats out of my control, for the time being. I never dreamed of modeling as my own career choice, however it is at the center of my universe, next to my own passions and interests. So I think the idea that I could plan my future has gone out the window since I started working in a career that chose me, rather than the other way around. I know my end goals and I know what activates my interests, and I think for the time being, that’s all I can rely on for future plans.

How do you stay true to yourself while executing other people’s creative?

I think of my job as momentarily fulfilling others creative ideas, so my motivation as I work is to act as a tool to best emulate what they are trying to create. Then, when I’m off the job, I’m thinking of my own ideas for drawings/sculptures. I think being in other environments where I am used to create an atmosphere/world inside another person’s ideas helps me expand and consider new ideas of my own. Being in tune with others creative endeavors helps get my own brain juices flowing.

QUICK QUESTIONS Name one hobby: Baking/cooking! I’ll never get tired of learning new recipes and techniques. If you wrote a book what would the title be and why? How to be a Model Without Letting It Ruin You What are you listening to right now: The entire Chromatica album everyday

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Model - Lulu Bonfils

Nationality - American

Height - 5'7

Agencies - Muse (NY) Wilhelmina (London)

Notable Work - Elle US December 2019 Editorial

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