Meet Luca Sormani

We recently connected with Luca Sormani and have shared our conversation below.

Luca , we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?

Looking back it’s a mix of events throughout my life, it’s a combination of failures and victories. This year in particular has been a rollercoaster from unexpectedly ending a relationship to debuting in New York fashion week & returning again this September, it feels until a certain point bitter sweet because heartbreak is dramatic perse, no one wants to go through it, but wanted or not we have to experience it so for many weeks I felt devastated, I didn’t want to do anything, I just wanted to sleep & go to the gym and repeat, but in the other hand I had NYFW asking me to return, I honestly didn’t have the energy to do such monumental step again, the whole time I was just looking for answers to what I did wrong for him to simply disappear, there was no goodbye, no last kiss or hug, a day after our anniversary he sent a plain text breaking up, so I took my tears and my pain, I took the broken heart filled with sadness & used all of that to focus in making a return to NYFW, it might seem bizarre but heartbreak in big part has helped me reach the goals I would had never reached being in a relationship.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

As a former Opera singer and worship director, there are times where I feel the nostalgia of being on stage, feeling the adrenaline of performing and seeing people enjoy my art, the memory of singing is one of the biggest treasures I have in my heart, but as of February this year by accident I ended up in the world of fashion, I debuted as a runway model for New York Fashion Week and all thanks for my former manager Pauline Samuels, the CEO of Creative Artist Magazine. She began taking me to the iconic LA Fashion Week and we would just go sit and have nice drinks and enjoy the show, connect with other artists, designers and models, it was during those nights where I received an invitation to attend New York Fashion Week, I was told originally that I was going to perform but during the process and towards the end I was asked to instead be a runway model, at first I said no way! I don’t look like a model, I’m just a short Italian guy, somehow they convinced me and I said yes, then the campaign began, I had only a few weeks to get ready and debut in the legendary New York Fashion Week. I just finished my second New York Fashion Week and I still wonder how did I end up appearing in billboards in Times Square and being surrounded by some of the world biggest designers and models, it’s just something that I still question, I never expected something like this happening to me but I’m thankful God opened this door for me.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I’m still a new in the world of fashion, I mean I always liked being a fashionisto, I always liked seeing Naomi Campbell or Donatella Versace or John Galliano pour their hearts during their fashion shows and leave everything in the runway but looking back I can honestly say that it is all about discipline, it’s all about hard work and do your best to give your best to an audience that is expecting to be pleased by not only the designs but also the whole production that a fashion show demands, I mean we all have seen how John Galliano as controversial as he may be is respected because of his fashion shows, Donatella Versace has built herself a name based on the hard work she has done all these years, she didn’t let the legacy of Gianni Versace die but instead recreated the whole brand and put her essence into it, she is unique, she’s a true example of resilience I take these examples and I pour them into my journey, it is never too late to begin a new journey, it is never too late to somehow recreate yourself and evolve into someone different.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

Believing in myself, learning to accept who I am, honestly there are times where I don’t feel good about myself, I am often very demanding on myself, on things I have to improve or the way I look, I get frustrated when I don’t see improvement after working out or if begin a project and it doesn’t come up as how I wanted it to be but I know nothing will ever be perfect, part of the beauty of life dwells in the imperfections of humans, life is a journey where we are constantly evolving but I face the challenge of loving myself perhaps the way how most of my relationships ended made me believe that I am never enough.
After my divorce I decided to reopen my heart to someone new, I thought maybe this time it will work, maybe this time it’s for reals, so I poured my heart into him, I’m not the best at expressing my feelings, as an introvert I tend to hide or limit my emotions for someone even if I like that person so through my actions I would demonstrate him how much I was falling for him, I remember waiting for the weekend to drive to DTLA and spend my time with him then he moved to Pasadena and I would do the same, I was falling for him, I really wanted for it work, we built some of the most lovely memories together, he was the first person that really made me believe in love. During a summer afternoon we had a picnic in Malibu, we bought cheese and wine and some flowers and as the sun was setting and we began feeling the cold breeze he covered me with a blanket and I did the same with him, we looked at each other and knew that we were in love, that we wanted to build a journey together, he gave some of the beautiful times I ever had, from waking up on a Sunday together and having breakfast to buying the same masks during Halloween but one morning, as our anniversary approached, I had prepared a nice dinner, his favorite food and even our favorite song, he never showed up, he simply disappeared, all I got was a text days after telling me that he was leaving, there was no goodbye, there was no last kiss or hug, there was no closure, he stepped out of the boat and here I was drowning in my pain, once again, it was happening again, another heartbreak, again I had to collect the pieces of my heart and rebuild myself, I played off cool in front of my friends and my mom I didn’t want them to see suffering again, this time it was different I had already began my modeling career so days after I received an invitation to do New York Fashion Week again in September, I immediately said yes! I knew it was my only way out of heartbreak, I don’t know if I have healed, but as time goes by I try my best to be a little bet more gentle on myself, not blame myself for all the wrong things that happen to me, but instead take the best out of it and keep walking. Just as becoming a runway model, appearing on billboards or appearing in magazines and even heartbreak, these are things that I didn’t expect but are shaping me into someone that keeps evolving with time, I don’t know where I will be tomorrow or what life has in stored for me, all I know is that each day I wake up with one desire, I just to be happy.

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Image Credits

The photographer who took the images for New York Fashion Week campaign, Kip Knight Photography, R&R Management, the designers who allowed me to walk their brands, every model from whom I learned so much, my mom and friends for believing in me all the time and of course God for opening every door that only He could open.

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