In reply to KaWai:
I am surprised she is not working a lot in the west, maybe she doesn't want to travel too far for work, but she looks unlike any Asian models in the business.
Fashion
The designers, the models, the shows and of course, the clothes
Gaile Lai, I think she is Hong Kong based. She is one of the topmodels in Asia.
In reply to KaWai:
I guess the majority's standard of beauty are still largely based on caucasian features. Though I must say that some chinese models have made it into the western market, like Sonny Zhou...It's a pity since Gaile looks much different not as spacey...and also the standards of aesthetics have much changed over the years...many of the models we see aren't exactly beautiful, they're just quirky looking or has quirky spacey feautures...just different.
I heard somewhere that Steven Meisel has recently done a series with all black models...he's attempting to change the perceptions of beauty..
The thing is the Asian magazines don't have dominate presence in the international market, which is dominated by Europeans and Americans, I think if Asians want to set a standard, they have to be tough and produce their own standard of magazines with unique characteristic, and really build strong international distribution. Even Japanese magazines with such strong styles don't really have authority when it comes to international presence.
Du Juan is the Chinese supermodel, she was in Cavelli, LV ads, she has classical Asian feature, not quirky.
Lu Yan, international top model. I had read in a CHinese article when she was in a modeling contest in China, the judges thought she was ugly.
