Arantxa Santamaria Arantxa Santamaria Arantxa Santamaria (born June 30, 1982) is a Spanish former fashion model from Altorricon, in Huesca, Aragon. She participated in the Elite Model Look competition in 2000, and won Pantene ProV contest in 2001. She also was selected as the SpanishModels.net "Model of the Month" in December 2002 and best model of Cibeles fashion week in 2003. She has been living all around the world. She is now works as fashion photographer with his husband, they both sign as Andoni&Arantxa. She speaks five languages. Santamaria was represented by Uno Barcelona in Spain, Women Management in France, Place Model
Spanish naming customs surnames, with an example being tennis player Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – whereas her older brothers Emilio and Javier, also professional tennis players, are mainly known only by the paternal surname of Sánchez in everyday life, although they also would "formally" be addressed as "Sánchez Vicario". Where Basque and Romance cultures have linguistically long coexisted, the surnames denote the father's name and the (family) house or town/village. Thus the Romance patronymic and the place-name are conjoined with the prepositional particle "de" ("from"+"provenance"). For example, in the name "José Ignacio López de Arriortúa", the composite surname "López de Arriortúa" is a single