Luis has also walked the boards for Versace, Olivier Stradini, Ferre Studio, Gieffe, Valentino, Krizia and Luciano Soprani, and off the runway he's appeared in campaigns for Messori, Gianfranco Ferre (photographed by Michel Comte), Emporio Armani shot by Aldo Falai, and for Sono Bono snapped by Jean Paul Barbieri. You can currently find him featured in a ten-page spread in Maxim Magazine.

A Gemini, Luis grew up in Guyana and moved to Sao Paolo, Brazil at the age of eighteen. The following interview was conducted as part of an extended discussion one afternoon earlier this year with Luis, Jefferson da Silva (interview published earlier) and their agent from Boss Models, Nigel Pembroke-Sloan.

I know Brazil is a huge country, much bigger than we realize, but is there really such a diverse racial mix?

Nigel: When people think of Brazil they think of dark hair and dark skin, but there are so many combinations. For instance there are also people like Jefferson from the south of Brazil where it's more European — lighter eyes, paler skin, lighter hair.

Luis: Brazil is a huge country but it's also very young, it is a country we have only known for the past 100 years. And what does it mean to be Brazilian? It means to be a mix of something. You may be German, half Indian, half Japanese (Sao Paolo has the second-largest Japanese population in the world) so we have everything — Italians, French, Russians, everything.

Nigel: You'll meet girls that look very Russian but speak only Portugese. Look at Jefferson and Luis, they have completely different faces. Yesterday we were joking that Jefferson has black lips, Polish/Russian cheekbones, and Portugese eyes. But that is his family heritage.

Luis: It's true. We are all mixed. There is no such thing as pure Brazilian.