Clémence Botino


Clémence Botino is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2020. She will now represent France at Miss Universe 2020.

Early life and education

Passionate about fashion, she became interested in music during her adolescence and became a pianist then dancer, especially in salsa. Botino has Indo-Caribbean origins from her mother, Afro-Caribbean and European origins from her father. She has a brother, two years younger.
She obtained a scientific baccalauréat with mention "very good" in 2014. At the age of 17, she lived for a year in the United States and studied costume in an international school located in Miami, to perfect her English.
After two years of preparatory literary courses at the, she moved to Paris in 2017 to study in the third year of a license and then in the first year of a master's degree in art history at the Sorbonne University; she specializes in the study of fashion history with the ambition, at the time of her election of Miss France, to become a heritage curator. As part of her studies, she is preparing a dissertation on the subject of "The history of fashion in the Caribbean".

Pageantry

Miss Guadeloupe 2019

On 3 August 2019, she was elected Miss Guadeloupe, succeeding Ophély Mézino.

Miss France 2020

On 14 December 2019, at the Dôme de Marseille, Clémence Botino was crowned Miss France 2020 with 31.95% of the public vote, narrowly winning ahead of Lou Ruat with 30.66%. She succeeds Vaimalama Chaves, Miss France 2019, and becomes the third Miss Guadeloupe elected Miss France after Véronique de la Cruz in 1993 and Corinne Coman in 2003. Before her election, it was revealed in early December that Clémence Botino arrived first in the test of general culture of the Miss France competition, with a mark of 17.5 out of 20.