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Stéphanie
In 2019, aged 20, this engineering student finally embarks on the Miss Belgique adventure, a dream she had put off year after year.
Text The info-shooting editorial team
Photos Christophe Renard · Valentin Conraads · Natalya Lasenko · Jean-Christophe Evrard
Based on the article published by info-lux.com in July 2019
Stéphanie Simoens is 20 in July 2019, when info-lux.com introduces her. Originally from Marche-en-Famenne, she is a contestant in the Miss Luxembourg 2020 election, the provincial stage of Miss Belgique.
She had been thinking about the pageant for a long time. Every year, she wanted to take part. In 2019, she made up her mind.
An engineering student
At the time, Stéphanie was studying industrial engineering at Gramme, in Liège. Born to a father from Antwerp and a mother from Marche, she speaks good Dutch, a quality the info-lux.com article calls “essential” for a Miss Belgique.
The 2019 portrait describes her as ambitious, kind, very sociable and “above all, always smiling”.
Skiing, piano, travel
She has been skiing since the age of 3 and playing the piano since she was 7. Besides skiing, her passion is travel: seventeen countries visited already, according to her 2019 profile.
Fondest memories? The generosity of Thailand and the energy of New York.
Representing the province
In July 2019, info-lux.com writes that she would be honoured to represent her province, “this little corner of the country that has so much to show”. Her goal that year: for Miss Belgique to be Miss Luxembourg.
For her campaign, she wears the contestant’s sash and hands out her voting cards. Two sponsors support her: À l’heure du Style, a new clothes shop in La Roche, and Rramalia, a brick repointing company in Huy.
On 25 August 2019, the Miss Luxembourg 2020 crown goes to Laura Vanquaillie, from Bertrix.
Stéphanie’s gallery
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2019 · Contestant photos
Model profile: Stéphanie on info-shooting. To propose a photo shoot or casting, write to the editorial team, who will pass it on.
One of the photographers: Valentin Conraads’s portfolio.
On info-lux.com (in French): Miss Province de Luxembourg 2020: Stéphanie Simoens? (July 2019).
Sources: portrait published by info-lux.com on 18 July 2019; info-lux.com article of 13 September 2019 on the Miss Luxembourg 2020 pageant. Each photo is credited in its caption.
