I remember seeing Liu Wen a lot in Chinese Elle. But she is also in VC. I think Fei Fei is so beautiful and a lot of Chinese folks think so too so I wouldn't say she is not typical of their idea of beauty. Some of the girls Angelica chooses are very very strange in my opinion.
The poster above is right about Carine having a hand at Du Juan's success. Putting her on that cover of VP really set her career on fire considering she was with a middle agency in NYC at the time. But remember, Du Juan was already a beauty queen in China having been crowned as Miss China years ago.[/QUOTED]
Du Juan never won a Miss China contest, actually she never participated any beauty pageant , someone mustve confused her 2002 new silk road top model contest champion with Miss China , and back to 2005 ,among the models picked by Angelica , Anna Wong was expected to succeed more likely, at that moment a lot of chinese fashion editors prefer Eurasian look models like Anna ,but Anna never made it to the top after years of trying so she gave up and married
And speaking of Liu and Sun, just like FND74 said, Vogue China wasnt the first that discovered them, Liu Wen was promoted by Marie Claire because of Joseph Carle's recommendation, to Liu Wen ,Joseph's just like Carine ,he saw Liu s potential although Liu 's just there for another model's fitting( sometime before the shooting ,the dress fitting would be completed by other models as the featured models scedule conflicting ), and booked her for his next editorial , from then on , every Chinese fashion magazine began hiring her