Debuted as a model at the age of 50
The nirvana of a Chinese woman is reborn
VoGUE, a well-known fashion magazine, has a program called "Une fille, un shtyle" (a girl, a style) that photographs the outfits, homes, hobbies and self-realization of many girls.
This summer, they went to Paris, France, to photograph a very special lady.
She married into a rich family at the age of 20, lost her lover at the age of 47, and debuted as a model at the age of 50.
She is the only Chinese daughter-in-law of the Givenchy family, born in China, raised in New York, and loved in Paris.
Her name is Suzi de Givenchy, she was once scolded as old and ugly, and now she is the royal model of Balenciaga, the cover model of VOGUE
In the early summer of this year, when "VOGUE" came to her home in Paris, France, she showed a lot of energy other than the supermodel, which made more people like this Chinese woman.
Her home is warm, bright and full of life, and the photos and antique objects placed everywhere show her love and understanding of life and art.
Regarding Suzi de Givenchy's experience, we will talk about it later, first take a look at her home:
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Medieval elegant French style
Warm, spontaneous, unique artistic tone
Suzide Givenchy's home in Paris, France, is a French-style apartment that is comfortable, warm and has a unique artistic tone.
The apartment has been around for decades and exudes traces of time, and Suzi moved in to re-match the soft furnishings of the interior, filling the house little by little in her favorite style.
In the interview, Suzi showed her home's living room, kitchen, and study, some of her favorite spaces.
The large living room is divided into two areas, in Lu Xun's words, one side is a sofa, and the other side is also a sofa.
The sofa area with larger space, a glance at "Paris", two milky white sofas, the texture of cotton and linen exudes a gentle temperament, and the tea table is full of modernity, a Moroccan-style carpet, bringing a touch of exotic atmosphere.
Behind the sofa are two large windows, and outside the window is a "small balcony" that can only be seen in Paris, as if opening the window can take place for a sexual encounter.
The white sofa area has a fireplace with a large mirror on the fireplace and wall lamps hanging on both sides of the fireplace, which has a bit of an oriental atmosphere.
On each side of the fireplace stands a traditional chest of drawers with old objects that Suzi had collected from all over the place. Suzi says she prefers to go to flea markets to shop for old furniture, "because there's a lot of history in every object, and now that it's in my house, I'll give them other memories."
If I am gone one day I hope they will be taken away by others, live with them, and give them new memories. In this way, a piece of furniture can have a second or third life. ”
The smaller sofa area, which is black, has a bit of a retro modern taste, and is with the family or alone, Suzi prefers to be here.
The black leather sofa, with a round glass coffee table, and two black table lamps on the side tables on both sides of the sofa bring a unique temperament.
Xiao Meng's favorite is the chandelier in the small living room, which is hung in a string of discs polished from shells, and the wind will make a rushing sound when the wind blows.
Suzi said that this lamp always reminds her of the days she has spent with her husband in Southern France, the sun, the beach, the waves, the endless lavender...
On the side of the small sofa area by the window, there are two works carved by Suzi's husband.
People are gone, but they can see him every day, and he is in the corners and corners of the house. Suzi says it's another way we spend time with each other.
The study is Suzi's most frequent place to stay, and it is also one of Xiaomeng's favorite spaces.
Large floor-to-ceiling windows, fishbone flooring, brown leather sofa, white top bookcase, warm and comfortable, but also full of mood.
The study is also one of the best spaces in the sun, where Suzi begins and ends every day.
In the morning, pushing open the floor-to-ceiling windows and letting the sun shine unreservedly indoors, Suzi turned the sofa around, basking in the sun, drinking coffee, and waking up the day.
Before going to bed, she likes to sit in front of the window, pour a glass of red wine, and listen to the century-old trees outside the window whispering in the night wind, savoring.
Suzi's kitchen, if you don't say it, you won't notice at all. Because it's so much unlike a kitchen!
Floor-to-ceiling windows are facing the trees outside the window, art paintings are hung all over the wall, and even chandeliers seem too "designed".
But on second thought, who rules that the kitchen can't have a sense of art? Moreover, Suzi's diet is also based on light food, and there is almost no oil smoke.
The kitchen is all white, the floor is paved with 70-year-old tiles, L-shaped cabinets + a middle island, the space is not big, but it is enough for one person.
Suzi enjoys cooking in the kitchen while chatting with friends, having a drink, and arranging flowers.
Flowers are the most important element of Suzi's home, in addition to medieval furniture. Every space in her house had flowers, peonies in the kitchen, bluebells on the coffee table in the living room, roses on the chest of drawers.
The small balcony is also full of plants, lavender in southern France, olive trees in Greece, hydrangeas in China, rosemary...
Undefeated flowers, vibrant greenery, medieval furniture, exotic artworks... Suzi's home is like a languid woman on the streets of Paris, too romantic to take her eyes off.
And Suzi, it is the charming woman ~ her home, which is the concentrated embodiment of her origin, experience, and aesthetics.
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Born in China, love in Paris
He debuted as a model at the age of 50
Born in Hong Kong, Suzi moved with her mother to New York when she was 4 years old when her parents divorced, where she spent her entire teenage years.
On her 20th birthday, she went crazy once, bought a plane ticket and ran to Paris, but unexpectedly, the trajectory of her life changed.
In this land of sexual encounters and romance, Suzi met the love of her life, Hubert de Givechy.
Hubert is the nephew of the master designer Givenchy with the same name and the same surname, and his godson.
In Paris in March and April, the evening winds of the Seine are shaking, and the young Suzi and Hubert fall in love at first sight and soon fall in love.
It wasn't long before Suzi crossed the ocean to Paris to marry Hubert.
Looking back on this desperate cross-border love affair, Suzi, now 52, is still shy like a teenager, "because of love, I came to Paris", she laughed and said, "It sounds like a cliché, but it's all true." ”
After marriage, Suzi became a full-time wife, gave birth to three children, and lived a happy life.
In the media report, Suzi became the only Chinese daughter-in-law of the Givenchy family, from an ordinary girl to a rich wife, an ugly duckling to a swan story.
Despite being a tycoon, Suzi has lived a simple and simple life and has been very low-key for more than 20 years.
Givenchy and the Suzi family
She thought that her life could always be happy, three meals and four seasons, husband and son
But fate played a joke on her, in 2016, the always healthy Hubert died of a sudden heart attack, and the family's peaceful life suddenly lost its direction.
For a long time, Suzi lived in the haze of the loss of a loved one, uninterested in anything, not wanting to go out, not wanting to work, not wanting to make friends, and not even knowing how to live.
Life has become a monotonous repetition of day after day for her, without any fun at all.
It wasn't until one day two years ago that Suzi bumped into a modeling agent, Versae Vanni, at a dinner party.
Although it was the first time they met, he decided that Suzi could become a good model, so he invited her to join his company.
At that time, Suzi was just joking, and she thought to herself, "This person must be crazy, who has a 50-year-old model." ”
50 years old, modeling from scratch, anyone who listens to it will think it is a fantasy. But Versae Vanni very solemnly left a sentence: "Suzi, tu ne le sais pas mais tu vas changer les choses.
In fact, this sentence touched Suzi. After 6 months of entanglement, she officially joined VersaeVanni's team; the first show was for off-white, and Suzi specially went to sign up for a class to learn to take "cat steps".
But that time the catwalk did not go well, the shoes went wrong, the pace was extremely awkward, and for a time, many people began to complain about this "old and ugly" Chinese model.
Without a young face, a devil's figure, and no young age, Suzi seemed out of place in this circle of handsome men and beautiful women.
But it is also because of her "difference" that more people notice her, Suzi's aura, expressiveness, and typhoon are enough to hang a group of young models.
On the one hand, she worked harder to become an excellent model and learn fashion knowledge; on the other hand, many brands also threw olive branches, and with the strength of not accepting defeat and the cool and sassy temperament, Suzi gradually became famous in the fashion circle.
Suzi's temperament is not a standardized beauty, but a beauty that breaks the norm. She has the classical and French casualness of the East, the traces of time are arbitrarily portrayed on the face, the angular face, this world, unique.
The face and temperament of more than 50 years old make elegance intriguing.
Why can't I be a model at 50?
But more importantly than being a model herself, Suzi found her own direction in life.
She has become more confident and smiley, and in an interview, she said: "We can change the direction of life at any age, at any time. We can find ways to get through difficult times. It just takes some courage, conviction, purpose and a sense of humor.
Most importantly, never forget to breathe and enjoy life, because life is so short. ”