{"id":10256,"date":"2011-09-09T02:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-09T02:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:09:13","slug":"China-s-Super-Model-Citizen--Liu-Wen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10256","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Super Model Citizen – Liu Wen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t wait to see Liu Wen!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even the WallStreetJournal.com<\/a> is captured by the supermodel!<\/p>\n

Liu<\/strong> said she was never considered “pretty” growing up. haha! The story of a supermodel.<\/p>\n

Liu Wen is the first Chinese supermodel<\/strong>, the kittenish face of Est\u00e9e Lauder, a runway regular in Paris, Milan and New York. She is the first East Asian woman to take part in a Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion show <\/strong>\u2014 something she has done twice. Her sleek image has been on the cover of just about every major fashion magazine, and she has modeled in ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Gap and many others.<\/p>\n

Yet the 23-year-old former tour category_ide from a village in Hunan province still seemed genuinely surprised at the compliments she drew from fans on a recent visit to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was younger, nobody said I was a pretty girl,\u201d Ms. Liu said. \u201cToday, it happened twice. Once in the morning, and just now. I really should come to Hong Kong more often.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Liu\u2019s rise to the top began six years ago when she took part in China\u2019s New Silk Road World Model contest<\/strong> \u2014 she didn\u2019t win the competition but garnered admirers and an appetite for the modelling industry. She moved to Beijing, and within a few months she was featured prominently on the pages of the Chinese editions of FHM, Vogue, Harper\u2019s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n

A year later, the 5-foot-10 model was stepping out on the catwalks of all the major global fashion centers. By 2009 she had broken the mold at Victoria\u2019s Secret, becoming the first \u201cAngel\u201d to take part in celebrated lingerie event in New York.<\/p>\n

Then last year, she cracked the model stratosphere.<\/strong> As the face of Est\u00e9e Lauder, Ms. Liu joins elevated company \u2014 past \u201cspokesmodels\u201d for the cosmetics giant include actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Gwyneth Paltrow. Linking up with Est\u00e9e Lauder puts her firmly in fashion modeling\u2019s elite set.<\/p>\n

She is modest about her success so far, which she says is due in part to the growth of China as a market for the world\u2019s fashion retailers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Asian market is so important now, so a lot of people are looking for Asian models,\u201d<\/strong> she says. \u201cLast year, in the Louis Vuitton winter collections, you could see a lot of qipao [traditional Chinese dresses]. I remember that show had eight Chinese models.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Liu was speaking ahead of a runway show for Marc Jacobs in Hong Kong.<\/strong> Her hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail, and she was wearing a full-length, form-fitting Jacobs dress and four-inch platform shoes. She says she\u2019s proud that the fashion world is taking more note of her home country these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I like it, because it makes me feel like my country is more powerful now and because everyone is into Chinese style.\u201d
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\nMs. Liu is about to embark on one of the busiest periods of the year for all top models with fashion weeks in New York and Paris right around the corner. Though she now lives in New York, she says she still likes working in Asia. \u201cPeople are friendly in the West too, but it\u2019s different. We speak the same language, eat the same food. It\u2019s like coming back to friends. It\u2019s a bit more comfortable here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her backers say Ms. Liu\u2019s success could help break ground overseas for Chinese fashion labels and models alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see her taking steps with large brands, either Chinese brands who want a fashion identity in the U.S. or Europe, and with European and U.S. brands who want to up their image in China,\u201d says Chris Gay, president of the Marilyn Agency. (Ms. Liu is on the books at Paris- and New York-based Marilyn, and Mr. Gay has been her agent since 2008.)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has the perfect line, the perfect build and the skin that very few models have,\u201d says Mr. Gay. \u201cVery rarely do you have fashion credibility and commercial appeal to a much larger audience \u2014 that\u2019s the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me in our business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corrections & Amplifications: Est\u00e9e Lauder is based in New York. An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to it as a French cosmetics giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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