Recently, with the launch of "Flowing Golden Years", Ni Ni, who is dressed in a red dress and bright and seductive, frequently explodes hot searches, and netizens even call out: "Ni Ni is so beautiful!" ”
In addition to her graceful and colorful figure, unique temperament and full sense of luxury, it is also ni ni's winning magic weapon in the fashion industry.
When it comes to the fashion industry, Uncle Chai has to talk to everyone about the "international supermodel" Cuckoo who is as light as a chrysanthemum.
For the public, the cuckoo is not beautiful, and at a glance, it is only a beautiful woman with a mediocre appearance, which is not considered to be the aesthetic of the public. Her eyes are not big, the bridge of her nose is not high, but it is like this, she has become the darling of the fashion industry, and is a Chinese supermodel who has created countless international firsts.
"Sunglasses King" Wong Kar-wai prefers Cuckoo's face, Chen Kexin even likes Cuckoo at a glance to let her star in "Chinese Partner", and the photographer is eager to start with the close-up of her high heels...
What is the charm of the cuckoo that makes so many people bend over for her? Today, Uncle Chai will talk to you about the road to fame of "alternative international supermodel" Cuckoo.
Cuckoo is an authentic Shanghainese, born into an ordinary family. Chinese-style parents basically hold the idea of hoping for a daughter to become a phoenix, carefully cultivate their children, leave the current environment, and control their own destiny, and Du Dad and Du Ma are no exception.
They devoted themselves to reading for Cuckoo, and sent her to the Children's Palace to study ballet at the age of 7, striving for her daughter to be dignified and temperamental, confident and bright.
Perhaps they did not think at that time, this study, they learned for nine years, Cuckoo did not give up halfway, her willpower can be seen.
"When I first went to school, I couldn't even comb my hair, and I practiced dancing so that every toe was grinding blood bubbles, and I put on a Band-Aid to continue practicing, crying and practicing at the same time."
But the more painful, the more Cuckoo likes ballet, she feels that the taste of dancing on tiptoe is wonderful, Du Papa Du Ma is very supportive of Cuckoo's hobbies; so when Cuckoo was 18 years old, she applied for the Shanghai Dance School, and she became a professional ballet dancer.
Her flexible posture, solid foundation, and tenacious will made Cuckoo stand out in the same grade, but she did not know that her height was growing rapidly, and she had the tendency to grow into a tree in the sky.
It wasn't until she was 179cm tall and couldn't find a ballet partner that she sounded the alarm bell in her heart: "I may not be a ballet dancer." ”
The best part of ballet is the double dance, and when she is unaccompanied, her depressed emotions rush and devour her. To this day, Cuckoo still feels "embarrassed" in retrospect.
At the age of 20, Cuckoo graduated. Confused about where she was, she studied ballet for nine years, and ballet, which she regarded as part of the future, left her.
No one can let go so quickly, unwilling, regretful, sad gushing out, just at this time someone pointed out a way for her to face life: "Do you want to try to be a model?" ”
As soon as she heard that it was feasible, she went to Beijing without hesitation and participated in the hot New Silk Road Model Contest alone; after several months of training, tens of thousands of applicants were left with only a few people, looking at the catwalk, she showed a little girl-like look, fascinated and determined.
But what she did not expect was that with a calm mentality and unique temperament, she won the championship in one fell swoop and began her new dream journey of "model".
But life has never been so smooth. At the beginning, Cuckoo rented a house in the center of Beijing, went to interview, fashionable clothes, cosmetics are indispensable, the economy can not make ends meet, suddenly she retreated.
She looked at the neon-shining Beijing, felt that her heart was empty, and immediately wanted to go home and run to the arms of her parents. When the company leaders learned that she was under great financial pressure, they immediately gave her a guarantee: "Next year we will definitely earn 60,000 yuan." ”
She gradually became at ease, and she had never been trained, and began to make up for her knowledge, understand the modeling industry, and better face the camera and the catwalk.
In the past few years of travel, she felt a little bored, she wanted to find new opportunities, so she looked at foreign fashion models, determined to go abroad.
With a cold temperament, elegant and confident posture, Cuckoo has been invited by the Chinese version of VOGUE, the French version of the magazine to shoot the cover, the world's top brands come to invite her to the catwalk, for a time, Cuckoo's career reached its peak, opening up the Fashion Situation of Asians Abroad.
The cuckoos headed straight for New York, but at first the situation was really grim, because they didn't need Asian faces, and they walked on thin ice step by step.
The first shoot, by Chanel's design director Carl Lagerfeld, made her stand in sub-zero temperatures in short sleeves.
She stood there, cold and alienated but full of charms, which made people shudder, and Carl Lagerfeld said bluntly: "She is recognized as beautiful in the East and the West." ”
Clean short hair, sharp and angular face, lazy and sexy Vermilion red lips, beautiful beyond belief, no wonder she said: "I am not a beauty at first sight, but I am quite attractive." ”
But his appearance was vulnerable to reality, and Cuckoo had to run twenty interviews a day and run around the street to try his luck: "I feel like a neurotic." ”
Life is like this, if you don't fight, there is only one way to die. In other words, without her tenacious and unyielding nature, there would not be so many opportunities, so many invitations to show, and no current style.
Until 2006, it can be described as an era of cuckoos calling the wind and rain. This year, she walked 43 consecutive shows, and all kinds of styles can be mastered, and big-name advertising endorsements such as Swarovski have received soft hands.
Busy like her, in Paris, New York and other places, almost no time to adjust the time difference, the only time to sleep, or on the plane.
It is sad to say, but Cuckoo never feels bitter, and when it comes to this, she only wants to be worthy of her heart: "I am a Virgo, as long as I take over this job, I will definitely use my best to complete it."
She has not only become a global advertising model for brands such as YSL and Gap, but also served as a global advertising spokesperson for LV, and even included in the list of the world's top 50 models.
In 2007, Cuckoo appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the United States, following the first French version of VOGUE to create a new glory, becoming the first Asian to appear in Time Magazine.
This means that she has successfully gone out of the country, and has achieved something, everyone respects her as a national model, but she humbly says: "I have caught up with the best times." ”
In the same year, she signed a contract with the American IMG company, and the high-quality resources and good interpersonal relations made her slowly go up to the top, and once became extremely popular.
But in recent years, it is rare to see cuckoos on the catwalk, just because she does not want to repeat her life, she crossed the line to shoot and become an actor.
I have to say that Cuckoo's luck is so good that it explodes, and the resources for this cross-line and acting seem to be at your fingertips, and you have opened a plug-in.
In 2012, the famous director Chen Kexin saw the cold and uninhibited Cuckoo in the magazine, and immediately called her to play the role of Samui in "Chinese Partner", and nominated her for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress, The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Best New Actor.
In 2013, Wong Kar-wai invited her to star in "The Realm of the Heart", and he preferred Cuckoo's cold temperament and charming red lips.
In 2015, Xu Zheng asked her to star in "Hong Kong 囧", a pure, non-human fireworks-eating first love girl quietly born.
In 2016's "Passing Through Your World", she played an intellectual and cold and powerful workaholic into three points.
Although she has not made many dramas, for a beginner who is a model and has no acting foundation, she has been able to catch up with others for ten years.
The cuckoo, on the other hand, is really a different kind of existence in the circle. She is casual and frank, living according to her own heart, not playing social accounts, not hyping up and gossiping, and can see her either on the big screen or on the event venue.
Speaking of which, I have to mention an interesting thing. Cuckoo's temperament is well known, but her beauty responds to the phrase "beauty is in the bone is not in the skin", and the alienation and coldness in her bones is her way of communicating with the world.
Whenever there is any activity, the cuckoo stands in the corner, and when the marketing numbers secretly wonder whether the relationship is not harmonious, the cuckoo only feels comfortable.
But if you think that the cuckoo standing in the corner will be ignored by everyone, it is a big mistake, the entertainment industry has a saying: "Don't take a picture with the cuckoo, even if you stand in the corner she will shine." ”
Taking a group photo with Yang Mi, Dong Jie and others, the confident and generous posture of not twisting is unique, and the four sides are beautiful.
But in private, she was seriously inconsistent with the aura on the stage. In private, she is gentle and shy, introverted and quiet, soft and cute when she speaks, soft and soft, like a cute little white rabbit.
In life, she is even more homely. Listen to music, spend time with your family, swim and drink tea: "Drink some Pu'er in the morning, drink Tieguanyin in the afternoon, green tea in summer, black tea in winter."
Cuckoos like to cross the street alone, watch the sunset stain the sky red, and then go home satisfied to eat. Her purpose in life is to do things according to her mood, she is unequivocal about the work she should do, she does not take the work she does not want to take, self-discipline and has her own principles.
Looking back on Cuckoo's walk, ballet gave her the courage to fight against suffering, the modeling career gave her an irreplaceable sense of value, and the actor made her feel the excitement of a variety of lives.
As she puts it, "I've done a lot of things in this industry. When I was dancing, I never thought I would be a model, and I never thought I would be an actor. "The magic of life is not the unknowability and possibility of the future."
Today's Cuckoo is almost a year old, pushing away a lot of jobs, running her own small family, things are still light and breezy; her eyes are becoming clearer, and the difference from before is probably that she has a little more fireworks.
From time to time, I get together with my parents, accompany them, communicate with the world purely and indifferently, and do not feel bored; although I am still single, I live comfortably, transparently and ordinary.
Liu Liangcheng once said: "Approaching the ordinary requires a long life of unremitting efforts. "It is not easy for cuckoos to make extraordinary achievements, and it is not easy to gradually withdraw from the center of the storm and feel the ordinary and precious of life.