Supermodel. Businesswoman with glasses and own perfume. Godmother of the pediatric floor of the Austral Hospital. Special Olympics Ambassador. Valeria Mazza does not stop all her titles and activities in the world of fashion (she has just launched a line of shoes and handbags that is already a bestseller) adding the one she likes the most: being a mother, something that she herself is in charge of telling. “I always dreamed of having many children, since I was little. and I usually repeat something that is very true and is Above all professional achievements: my greatest achievement is my family,” says Valeria Mazza, dressed in a light blue and white Ménage à Trois pantsuit at the Park Hyatt Duhau Library, where the launch of her accessories line took place.
“I hope my children see Mother’s Day as a special date.”l, although I believe that that day is every day, although it sounds like a used phrase. I celebrate being their mother every day, but I also like that they recognize me and I hope that they let me be a mother for as long as possible, that they don’t leave so soon,” she says with humor and melancholy.
“How do I celebrate that day? Obviously I will try to be with my mother, who lives in Rosario, but let’s hope Ale’s mother (Gravier, her husband) comes. We really like to celebrate and I hope that my children read this note and also give me a nice gift,” he adds with a laugh when he dedicates this message to Balthazar, Tiziano, Benicio and Taína Gravier.
“I have to thank not only the children we have with Ale but the great relationship with my mother. The three of us have always been very close: together with my sister Carolina, we chat about everything. And with my daughter, wife, I am learning. Taína is a bullfighter and has a lot of personality. I am an Aquarian and I take a deep breath, letting many things about the four of us pass by. You have to be patient to be a mother,” says the woman who made more than 500 covers for international magazines and was the darling of Versace, Armani and Valentino, among other great couturiers.
“I remember that, when the kids were kids, I always heard: ‘You’re going to see what adolescence is’ and, the truth is, I recognize that I have not had major conflicts with my children. I think the key, the secret (if it exists, because each relationship is different) is to learn to move, to give space, to let them make decisions, even if many times you don’t like them,” he concludes.
Although now she has poured all her style into the shoes and handbags that bear her name. (manufactured by the Gravagna Group company, with a long history in our country), Valeria Mazza’s passionate relationship with these accessories is not new. “I always liked shoes and handbags. I don’t know how much I save and I’m 40, which is not so common, so I tend to accumulate a lot because they are not easy to give away or pass on. Although Taína already wears 39, I think that soon my collection will decrease (laughs). I think the issue of shoes and purses is the only thing we have fought with Alejandro about quite a lot. “He doesn’t understand why I always say he has to come in a couple more.”
The Valeria Mazza Shoes & Bags line has 30 models in different colors. “There are about 100 products in total, where there are different models that reflect not only the trend but also quality, comfort (something that is already very important to me) and a good price, an issue that is not minor today,” says Mazza. “We like to associate my brand with the best in each field. That’s how we made the glasses more than fifteen years ago and then the perfume. “Now it’s time for shoes and handbags.”
There are everything from elegant high stilettos with fine toes to low sandals, in the colors of the season, to which are added models with rhinestones, important buckles and studs. “I was very happy to know that many have already bought my summer 2025 collection. “I like that what I do reaches people, that there is a good distribution so that many women can wear my shoes, just as I like to see them with my glasses or wearing my perfume,” confesses the supermodel.
The first collection was put together in record time. “I went to the factory and on the table we put all kinds of textures, studs and details such as buckles or rhinestone strips. I took into account all the trends to choose each model. We were even seeing how they looked on zoom because I had several trips in between. Today technology helps a lot. The funniest thing is that they made samples in my size (they’re usually made in a 35 or 36), so when I was in the European summer the women complimented my shoes. It was what I needed to be sure of the collection,” recalls the businesswoman.
Valeria Mazza took special care of the final price that her models would have. “I like that fashion stops having that prejudice that it is something exclusive, I am always thinking about a massive audience that also crosses generations. These shoes, for example, are worn by my mother and also by my daughter and I put that idea into the collection,” says Valeria. “My mother wanted comfortable shoes and Taína, cool shoes. So I tried to please both of them and I hope that this will be passed on to all Argentinian women.”
Does Valeria Mazza feel like a role model for women? “I always worked for women, I never felt like ‘the distant model’. I have empathy, we have grown together too. Since I started working, 35 years ago, I am very frank. I talk about what happens to us women over the years and that always makes you an ally.”