When it comes to the definition of beauty and ugliness, it is roughly divided into these two types, high nose bridge, goose egg face, big eyes, small mouth is beauty, and small eyes, thick lips, and flat square face are ugly.
Like Qu Ying, Qin Shupei, He Sui, Sun Feifei, and Liu Wen are the facade figures of the supermodel industry, and Lu Yan, who goes abroad and is popular all over the country with the "freckled lily flower", is still the first person in the supermodel industry.
There are many models in China, Lu Yan wants to be in shape, to have no face, and the story of fame is like a myth.
Recently, the propaganda map issued by Dior official micro has caused heated discussion, a set of unique pictures have just been posted, and the comment area has been fried.
Greasy hair, thinning eyebrows, fierce eyes, puffy single eyelids, dirty eye makeup... The greasy image of the model is hard to see.
Some people say that "vilify Chinese women and ugly Asian culture", and some people comment on "horror film posters", "hades photos" and "deformed beauty that caters to the European and American markets", and they could not imagine that this group of photos is the masterpiece of Chen Man, a famous Chinese photographer.
At this time, Lu Yan, who had been famous for a lily freckle chart, was involved in it.
In 2000, the World Top Model Competition was held in China, and a generation of Chinese runner-up supermodels was born, which was the highest honor won by China in the international supermodel competition.
There was no star fee and no bonus for this game, and Lu Yan, who was in a foreign country, received a phone recommendation from her agent and plucked up enough courage to carry her luggage to the competition city.
Before that, she and her friends were walking on the road and met two Frenchmen, and two men stopped her, they were foreign scouts who had come to China to dig people.
After meeting Lu Yan, he took the initiative to ask about her height, occupation and family background, and after a simple understanding, he was very satisfied with her and invited her to develop the French modeling industry.
No out of the province, no understanding of France, the level of education is very low, there is no good way out to stay in the country for development, think of going to other cities to see it, just give yourself a space for development, hurriedly apply for a passport and pass.
When I first went, I was not familiar with life, I didn't have much money with me, and I lived in a small house of nine square meters.
Can't speak French and English, travel to eat is a problem, buy a dish in the supermarket because you can't understand the above text, you can only buy the only egg you know to live, less than a month to eat hundreds of.
Ugly and not outstanding, there are basically no good resources to develop there, relying on a dictionary to interview everywhere, kung fu pays off, and finds some performance opportunities.
Once, in the cold winter, she wore summer fashion to take pictures on the catwalk, the cold wind blew for several hours, the appearance fee was only a few euros, solving the problem of food and clothing, and the life was very difficult.
Just when she didn't know what to do, a phone call completely changed her fate.
After years of groping abroad, she has not mixed up her own piece of the world, and the agent has proposed to compete as a supermodel, and she is very unconfident, thinking that she does not have the strength to get on that big stage.
After thinking about it for a long time, the poverty she has lived in at this stage is very much in need of resources, and her parents in the family want her to get ahead, and the agent constantly encourages her, and finally plucks up the courage to agree to participate.
Even so, her face can be said to be an impossible existence in the supermodel world, completely incompatible with beauty and beauty, long and short squints, collapsed nose bridge, thick lips, high cheekbones.
Almost no one was optimistic about her, and her support was very low, but she still confidently stepped onto the stage of the competition.
During the competition, he always maintained a high degree of concentration, did not have outstanding looks, and constantly created his own temperament, no matter how hard and tired he persevered.
After a month-long competition, he stood out from the top model players from 45 countries and finally stood the position of the world's top model runner-up.
At that time, people were surprised, and there was also a Chinese player Yu Na on the same stage, and the focus of the media was on Na's body, and no one paid attention to her.
Through continuous learning and exploration, she opened a new era of Chinese models in obscurity.
Becoming a world supermodel overnight after the game, all major platforms are sending messages about ugly ducklings turning into white swans.
In a later interview, Lu Yan said that she was also amazed, she did not expect that she would get the second seat, even the third and fourth seats did not think, even if she could not get the trophy, she was very calm, and did not think that she would win the award.
People say she's ugly or pretty, and the joke that the ugly duckling turns into a white swan feels romantic.
In fact, she does not have any great skills, and she has always maintained a new heart along the way.
To say how she was on fire is inseparable from the few people she met.
That year, he was born in a small village in the Mining District of Jiangxi, his father was a shaver, his mother was an ordinary farmer, and the family had two younger siblings.
The monthly wages of my parents only add up to five or six hundred yuan, sometimes my parents are not at home, so I cook a meal and wait for them to come back, and I learn to help my parents do farm work at a young age.
Because she didn't look good, her big face, her small eyes, and her thick and big mouth, the neighbors didn't want to praise her when they saw her.
Generally walking on the road, you will hear "this child looks really watery" and "your child is really beautiful", such praise Lu Yan has never received.
When I go to school, I am often ostracized by other classmates, eat alone when eating, and stand alone when playing games.
She was a head taller than a child of the same age, and everyone was reluctant to stand with her when taking pictures.
With low self-esteem, she began to walk hunched over, and for a long time, her back became more and more hunched, and after graduating from high school, she directly looked for jobs in various parts of the local area.
Her mother saw that she always walked hunchback, and felt that this affected the image of the girl, so she took her to a physical class, and then she kept going to class to correct her walking posture.
During recess, she lay in the crack of the door and watched the girls in the next classroom dance with light steps, peeking back and forth, but it seemed that she had a chance in life.
The teacher in the dance class next door noticed her, and once she happened to bump into her in the hallway, the dance teacher said to her teacher, "This kid is really tall, quite suitable for modeling." ”
With a smile, he turned his gaze to her and asked, "Little friend, do you want to be a model?" I didn't understand what a model was, and I followed the teacher with my head down.
Later, an American agency held a model competition in Beijing, and the models in the next classroom had to go, and each team needed to send five contestants to participate in the competition, and one classmate quit the competition because of illness.
When he was worried about not being able to find a substitute, the teacher thought of Lu Yan, and with his tall stature, he successfully won the last place.
The competition venue was in Beijing, and all the food and accommodation expenses for the trip were provided by the team, and five little girls set off with the team.
When they arrived in Beijing, they met han Yinghua, the founder of the competition, at the hotel, and Lu Yan's out-of-place appearance left a deep impression on the organizers.
Later, an hour before the competition, the photographer wanted them to take a few magazine pictures in summer fashion, it was a cold winter, and the four girls refused the photographer's request, but Lu Yan agreed to shoot.
So I changed into summer clothes, stood on the cold and windy stage, posed in a strange shape, and insisted on taking the photo.
Because of his lack of modeling experience during the competition, he was eliminated in the first few rounds and did not enter the door of the final.
After the game, she did not rush home, began to look for a job in Beijing, the education is too low, there is almost no place for her, just do some rough work to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Sometimes with good luck, the boss let her walk away, the place is very small, each time the living expenses earned are not enough for a month's expenses, and she met a noble person who had a difficult life.
At that time, Li Dongtian's studio was looking for a model, and the first time he saw her, he said, "You look so beautiful." ”
Growing up, no one ever praised her like this, thinking that the other party was just ridiculing herself, and said, "You don't have to tease me like this." ”
Not believing what Li Dongtian said, he turned his head and was about to leave, Li Dongtian quickly pulled her aside, and the two sat down to chat for several hours.
Li Dongtian felt that she was the person he was looking for, and was determined to push her internationally, thinking that this girl would definitely be able to catch fire.
Co-photographer Feng Hai made a model for Lu Yan, a faint circle of freckles, lips coated with a thick layer of lip oil, with the purity of lilies, colliding with a unique beauty, black and white background color, it seems that the people in the photo are more mysterious.
Soon the photo was hung in the Wangfu Jingchuan exhibition, and everyone who saw it felt very ugly, thinking that the person in the photo was not the material for modeling.
In the face of the discussion of many people, the photos are gradually seen by many people.
In the West, this photo was recognized by many people, and for a time this face shape became popular, which was called a high-class face.
Fire all over the country, she was soon well known by the Chinese people, through the fame of foreign countries back to China to develop, her face is special, is unique, some people praised "so beautiful" "wow, this is the new fashion."
Others feel that it is not in line with the traditional sense of beauty, and think that it is extremely ugly and really damages the image of Chinese women.
With the black and red controversy into everyone's field of vision, and later the Internet broke out several pictures of holding apples and holding large white geese, messily distributed with wreaths, smiling and holding a large white goose with a big mouth, full of girlishness.
The other one sat on the side with a red apple, the retro cultural atmosphere from the inside out, and everyone who saw it thought this was what a supermodel looked like.
Her beauty is carved from the inside out, is carved in the bones, carefully looked at the people found that behind such photos, are the need to constantly grope the feeling to show it, the sense of contour is extremely strong, is a generation of aesthetic people in the eyes of the new art.
After 20 years, the sense of superiority highlighted by artistic beauty is still controversial.
Some people think that Lu Yan's face is very beautiful, and some people think that she is still as ugly as before.
"Beauty" and "ugliness" are like image endorsements, following her all the way.
Now it has been developing in China, and has held many fashion shows as a designer, and continues to inherit a unique new art.
The beauty of the original ecology is like unearthed cultural relics, as long as the designer does not deliberately ugly, it is worthy of respect.
Everyone is not a glass heart, not do not understand art, that kind of cultural feeling is very important to the Chinese people, even if it is not in line with the ordinary aesthetic point of view, as long as it is a normal artistic beauty, it is a special existence.