Esther Cañadas: “I didn't want to be a Victoria's Secret angel. And if it had been... Maybe now I would have three more houses!”

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When Esther Cañadas (Albacete, 47) stepped off the runway after the last Balenciaga fashion show, the creative director of the French firm, the visionary and very eccentric Demna, approached her and told her that when she was just a child growing up in post-Soviet Georgia at war with Russia, her obsession was to achieve something very difficult in a country marked by permanent conflict and in a home that was not exactly buoyant: to tune in to Fa…