Wallpaper China June 2025 : Du Juan by Leslie Zhang

[Hafyiez wafa]

RETURN JOURNEY
Photography: Leslie Zhang
Styling: Monica Mong
Hair: Han Bin
Make-up: Clive Xiong
Model: Du Juan

 

[marsnoop2]

They don’t make travel editorials like this anymore, absolutely stunning!

 

[Malaya]

Sooooo gorgeous! Might just be one of my fave eds so far this year.

 

[oaklee91]

It’s so weird, I was just looking up for Guilin for a future travel reference… this is spectacular

 

[Simera]

Hasn't Du done this editorial before? It's very pretty, but I feel like so many Chinese girls have this editorial haha.
Especially that 2nd cover image.

 

[Zorka]

Hasn't Du done this editorial before? It's very pretty, but I feel like so many Chinese girls have this editorial haha.
Especially that 2nd cover image.

Du Juan has done quite a few cover stories for Wallpaper* China, but what you are referring to is Wallpaper* China January/February 2018 by Yu Cong.

As a reminder, I'm posting just the images of Du shot on the Li River. This issue's title Return Journey means that Wallpaper* China & Du have returned to the Le River once again.



Photography: Yu Cong
Styling: Liu Xiao
Hair: Bon Fan Zhang
Make-up: Xin Miao
Models: Du Juan


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[Zorka]

The Return Journey is breathtaking - another testimony to the fact that Leslie Zhang is an artist in the true sense of the word!

This first (must-see!) video perfectly shows the connection between what I tried to explain in my previous post and the new cover story:



The second, as I said, is pure ART!



Thank you, dear @Hafyiez wafa, for this visual treat. ❤️

 

[Bertrando3]

I LOVE cover stories like these, it makes the readers travel like BACK IN THE 90's when we didn't have internet / phones / social media and all of that, therefore magazine like these with fabulous out-of-this-world photos were the only way for us to see the world. The wealthiest could travel but for normal people magazines were our way to travel across the world. I love these photos and Du Juan being the model is even better. I get a nostalgic feeling from these which is quite good

 

[woemwoem]

Does Leslie work only for Chinese publications? He really needs more exposure in western mags because his work runs circles around other photogs whose work we see consistently in western pubs.