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Dolce & Gabbaba F/W 2016


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By Franco Pagetti | MG (5) | Runway (9) to Campaign (1) | 11 shots



- previous holders -


Model, Cong He - RTW S/S 2016, Worldwide, MG, 13 shots
Model, Sora Choi - RTW F/W 2015, Worldwide, MG, 7 shots
Model, Fei Fei - Skincare F/W 2014, Worlwide, MG, 2 shots
Model, Liu Wen - RTW F/W 2011, Worldwide, MG, 5 shots
Model, Hye Park - Men's RTW F/W 2007, Worldwide, MG, 2 shots



#WorldwideTheyAre​
 

+ the discontinued D&G line


Model, Tao Okamoto - RTW F/W 2011, Worldwide, MG, 3 shots
Model, Hye Park - RTW F/W 2005, Worldwide, MG, 5 shots
Model, Rila Fukushima - RTW S/S 2004, Worlwide, MG, 5 shots
 
modelista said:
^I'd LOVE to see a Asian VS Angel in the future^_^ (or three:wink::lol: ). I think Liu Wen deserves it but if they decided to choose just one, personally I would want it to be Sui He:heart:. But most likely it would be someone younger that would grow with the brand with a sh!t ton of followers:rolleyes:
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Nice to hear your opinions modelista!

Evidently VS is very fond and thinks highly of Sui He but why does it seem like Ming Xi will get the Angel contract?




This year alone Ming has actually appeared in VS related works (catalogue/lookbook/promotional line, etc.), domestic or international, and worked alongside VS girls.



Ed Razek even commented this to Ming:

So happy to have you Ming @mingxi11 And we look to "the road ahead" with you! ❤️​
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This clip, an indicator/foreshadowing a possibility?

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Mae Mei Lapres


Gucci


#MaeLapresMadeHistory #FinallyAnAsianForRTW​
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Not true.






Líng Tan

starred in the Gucci's RTW F/W 1997 campaign by Testino



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OG or MG? Women's or Men's?


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Nevertheless, how surprisingly cool to see and know this?!
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Max Mara staged its Pre-Fall 2017 collection in Shanghai


Xinyu | Luping




Unknown 1 | Xiaoyun Liang




Ma Hui Hui | Yue Ning




Unknown 2 | Unknown 3




Unknown 4 | Unknown 5




Meng Huan | Alisa Yu


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- Shanghai Heroine -



Unknown 6 | Unknown 7




Unknown 8 | Unknown 9




Unknown 10 | Unknown 11




Unknown 12 | Rina Fukushi




Cong He | Yue Han


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Opened: Wangy Xinyu | Closed: Yue Han
Exclusives: Xiaoyun, Unknown 1 & 6
Veterans/surprises: None


Overall good selection of faces. 21 Asian models. Pretty fair.

Last observation: #OnlyChineseWoreSunglasses
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^ Thank you for the info. Will look into. She looks good there and so did most of them. Should give unkown 9 more credit and unknown 2 was a standout in terms of her look/hair (thought she was older, if so, even cooler).


And there were 22 that actually walked and several bystanders.


Regarding the sunglasses thing which is not always a big deal. Sometimes it's not what it seems. Even though the Chinese only had them it seems like that was appropriate and for whatever the show wanted to present with this particular collection, hence the standing models all wore them too. IMO they look terrific, especially Hui Hui - so Matrix but more sophisticated and stylish.

Tasteful, pretty and mature collection (and just realised all have a bag!).





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Marni F/W 2016


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By Hellen Van Meene | MG (6) | Runway (3 ) to Campaign (1) | 1 shot


- previous holders -


Cong is the first Asian to partake in the brand's advertisement




#CongDefinitelyMadeHistoryHere
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Antithesis of 1950s: China Machado

"I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully."




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China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86


Vanessa Friedman | DEC. 19, 2016



China Machado, one of the first non-Caucasians to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who helped break not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in Brookhaven, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 86.

Her family said the cause was cardiac arrest.

Ms. Machado (whose first name was pronounced CHEE-na) lived a colorful life: She was born Noelie de Souza Machado on Christmas Day 1929, in Shanghai; fled the country with her parents in 1946, after the Japanese occupation; had an affair with Luis Dominguín, the Spanish bullfighter, who left her for Ava Gardner; and socialized with François Truffaut.

But at a time when the fashion industry is still struggling with diversity, it is worth pausing to consider what “colorful” really meant when it came to Ms. Machado, what her career represented and how far we still have to go, nearly six decades later.

Her legacy extends far beyond the pictures she created, and the poses she struck, to make us rethink our assumptions about what is considered beautiful, and why. And it is as relevant today as when she first stepped on a runway, in the 1950s.

“China Machado was one of the first great pioneers in the firmament of haute couture,” André Leon Talley, the former Vogue editor at large and the fashion and style director of i.am+, the tech firm founded by Will.i.am, wrote in an email. He added that she “made of her ethnicity something powerful. Internationally, she paved the way for diversity and other races, as well as paving the way for the rise of the black model in print and on the runway.”

Stefano Tonchi, the editor of W, said: “She was the first to put in front of the audience the idea of the otherness, bringing out memories of different cultures and fragments of other imagery. She always did it with irony, without posing, modeling or vogueing. Somehow she showed it all while dancing.”

And though she did not do it consciously in the beginning, by the time she was aware of her historic place in the fashion world, her daughter Emmanuelle LaSalle-Hill said, she “was proud to wear that mantle. She thought so much of fashion looked the same, and she wanted to celebrate the idea that everyone could be who they were.” Ms. Machado certainly was.

It began in 1959, when Ms. Machado became the first nonwhite model featured in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar.

She had started modeling in Paris, most notably for Hubert de Givenchy and Balenciaga (so successfully that she was the highest-paid runway model in Europe), and Oleg Cassini brought her to New York for his runway show in 1958.

She caught the eye of Diana Vreeland, who sent her to Richard Avedon, then Harper’s Bazaar’s star photographer and a crucial player in forming the magazine’s identity. He christened her his “muse” and began photographing her in looks that, Mr. Talley pointed out, had previously been worn only “by white models.”

Avedon wanted his photos of Ms. Machado in Bazaar’s February issue. But according to an interview Ms. Machado did with CNN in 2011, Robert F. MacLeod, the magazine’s publisher at the time, said: “Listen, we can’t publish these pictures. The girl is not white.”

“I knew I was considered kind of ‘exotic,’ if you want to use that word, in Europe, but it wasn’t any kind of a slur,” Ms. Machado told New York magazine this year.

Avedon’s contract with Bazaar was up for renewal at the time, however, and, according to Ms. Machado, he threatened not to re-sign unless his photos of Ms. Machado appeared in the magazine, and such was his power that the editors finally agreed. He “sort of blackmailed them into putting these pictures into the magazine,” she said. (Some published reports have stated that Ms. Machado appeared on the cover of Bazaar in 1959, but her daughter disputes that date, saying the model was not her mother, and that her first cover was in 1971. A spokeswoman for the Richard Avedon Foundation said it could not confirm the identity of the 1959 cover model but that she “didn’t think” it was Ms. Machado.)

It wasn’t the only boundary she and Avedon pushed for the magazine. She was also its first nude, in 1961. And it wasn’t the only racism she encountered.

After she appeared on Cassini’s runway in 1958, she said in New York magazine, he spoke to a group of “Southern buyers” because they were ignoring all the dresses Ms. Machado had worn in the show. He asked why, and they said, Ms. Machado reported, “Oh, she’s black.” (Actually, she was mixed race, with Portuguese, Chinese and Indian roots.)







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And even later, when she was at the height of her fame, she told CNN: ”Every advert that came out, it would say stupidly, ‘The Great China’ on it. I felt like … a circus!”

Things have clearly gotten better since then: A recent end-of-year report on diversity from TheFashionSpot said that in 2016, 29 percent of magazine covers featured nonwhite models, a 6.2 percent increase from last year. But runways were only 25.4 percent nonwhite, a paltry 0.7 percent increase, which underscores the tendency of fashion to look at diversity as a trend rather than as an issue that needs to be addressed on a deep, systemic level.

Indeed, broadly defined, the industry is not doing very well at all when it comes to diversity, with only 0.9 percent of covers featuring women over size 12 (that translates as six, two of which belonged to Adele), and only 5 percent belonging to women 50 and above (including Michelle Obama, who is arguably beyond age).

Which brings us back to Ms. Machado. Because by 2011, more than 50 years after her first, pioneering appearance, she was once again going where very few women in fashion had gone before.

With a few notable exceptions, such as the Bazaar cover in 1971 and the Battle of Versailles fashion show in 1973, when she walked in the American contingent, Ms. Machado had, by 1962, segued from her role in front of the camera to one behind it. She became fashion director of Harper’s Bazaar, thus clearing yet another professional pathway (one later followed by such models turned editors as Grace Coddington and Tonne Goodman), and helped introduce Lear’s magazine, aimed at the over-50 set. Then, at age 81, she signed with IMG Models, becoming an effective octogenarian supermodel.

She starred in ad campaigns for Barneys and Cole Haan, and was once again in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar. (Though the Cole Haan campaign was nominally celebrating individuals born in 1928, like the brand, it was the one time Ms. Machado “lied about her age to be older than she was,” Ms. LaSalle-Hill said. “She thought it was close enough.”) Only last month, she was modeling for a new Ray-Ban shoot by the photographer Steven Klein. All without ever having plastic surgery.

“You can’t worry about aging because that’s the worst thing,” she once said. “If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don’t like, and then you’re finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.”

Ms. Machado is survived by her husband, Ricardo Rosa; two daughters, Emanuelle Lasalle-Hills and Blanche Lasalle; and two grandsons.

According to Ivan Bart, the president of IMG Models, “China was instrumental in teaching younger models, ‘Own yourself, own your beauty.’” Her life showed them how.

Ms. Machado was always an exception. But if fashion learns anything from her example, someday, perhaps, she will be the rule.
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"I never thought I was good looking in any way, shape or form... I didn't look like them,
so I thought I can't be good looking, right?"


Certainly to most of us, she was before our time, but history is made with strong individuals like China who was a catalyst in changing the norms of that particular time. She have paved a path and space to people that look like her and a living representation that helped broaden the definition and image of beauty.

Evidently she was a success that came out from the harsh and obstinate times that we know of those years. And we must admit that her experience is still very much relevant today (with gradual improvements).

Beyond the glamour she's bold, elegant, charismatic and transitional as the rule-breaker-and-maker and pioneer whose career and presence have shaped the fashion community and her legacy will resonate among generations to come. ​





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Sūn Fei Fei

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Ralph Lauren Iconic


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By Steven Meisel | MG (10) | Runway (2) to Campaign (1)* | 1 shot




- previous holders -


Model, Bonnie Chen - Black Label F/W 2014, Worlwide, MG, 3 shots
Model, Li Xiao Xing - Black Label S/S 2014, Worlwide, MG, 4 shots
Model, Sui He - RTW F/W 2011, Worldwide, MG, 5 shots
Model, Tao Okamoto - RTW F/W 2009, Worldwide, MG, 1 shot







*Even though the Iconic campaign is not the RTW collection, still want to point out the casting

Also, every other RL line is omitted except the bigger campaigns (main collection; black/Lauren lines etc.)
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Lakshmi Menon & Ujjwala Raut


Elle India December 2016
Ph: Vikram Kushwah


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Liú Wén

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Giorgio Armani New Normal


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By Peter Lindbergh | MG (4) | Runway (2 ) to Campaign (1)* | 7 shots




- previous holders -


Non-Model, Maaya - Eyewear S/S 2015, Worldwide, MG, 3 shots
Model, Tony Thornburg - Eyewear S/S 2014, Worldwide, OM, 8 shots
Model, Fei Fei - Beauty S/S 2013, Worldwide, OG, 1 shot
Model, Fei Fei - Beauty F/W 2012, Worldwide, MG (solo), 1 shot
Model, Fei Fei - Beauty S/S 2012, Worldwide, OG, 1 shot
Model, Du Juan - RTW mainline F/W 2008, Worldwide, MG, 14 shots
Model, Ling Tan - Fragrance 1998 - 2000 (?), Worldwide, MG (solo), 1 shot
Model, Ethel Fong - RTW mainline S/S 1986, Worldwide, OG (?), 1 shot (?)






*Not RTW collection but still interested in its casting

Will draft a more detailed list of other lines later; was too hectic to list everything, hence only mainline and beauty/fragrance/eyewear; this may be incomplete
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^ There's something needs to be said about this. Given how much the topic of diversity (ethnically/racially) permeate in the modelling and fashion industry at this current time. No?

Not really a big deal (or surprising) but at the same time, this gets tiring. What was the premise and prerequisite for this selection of girls? What does this editorial entail that one Asian is enough? Base on this cast, there seems to be a variety of girls, but when it comes to Asian, it has to be only ONE. Yes. In most cases.

Most of us are aware of this. Hence the icky feelings. Sure, I or we don't know the decisions and ideas behind all this but... seriously. Really?

Gonna put this on VJ (& Luigi & Iango) and not so much on Piergiorgio & co...




Anyway, Cong He would've been a perfect addition to the cast.
 
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