Sitting on a black sofa in his two room apartment in Zurich, he could be anything between 22 and 25 — it’s hard to tell, and you can’t believe a word he says. He claims he owns an apartment in New York, that his sister is a famous singer called Thalia. He says he was just in Las Vegas and Barcelona and at the Oscars — he tells a lot of tall tales.

from der spiegel’s coverage of juan isidro casilla, the model who got a fake two-page ad in the swiss weekly, sonntagszeitung, by pretending to be a gucci media buyer with a last-minute order.  he’s recently been posting about himself in the third person in blog comments as ‘new york models’, and has fake calvin klein videos on youtube as ‘newyorkrecords’.