This quirk,
A model who believes that talent and hard work are indispensable
After entering the age of thirty,
The pattern of life becomes grand and profound,
Ju Xiaowen is still exploring herself,
She believes that emotions are flowing all the time,
The state of man is always changing with the present.
"We have to do what we particularly enjoy doing.
Enthusiasm is something I've always wanted to look for,
Find one that fills you with enthusiasm,
Something that raises passion,
Then try to do it. ”
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By dialing Ju Xiaowen's phone, her WeChat avatar was a row of photos of Luffy smiling with teeth in "One Piece", and a few seconds later, Ju Xiaowen, wearing a pink top, took Luffy's signature smile and greeted us.
Her ghostly horse, sensitivity and unbridled innocence are in line with the usual impression of the outside world on her, and one second, she is still happily telling her favorite teacher Zhao Lirong's sketch "Look at my mouth / A cup of your appetizer..." The next second immediately switched channels and asked, "Did you see the interview on human genetic engineering in the latest season of "Round Table Pie"? She cares about the list of Spring Festival Gala programs, Elon Musk's remarks, the hundred-eyed ape phenomenon and quantum entanglement, and will also look at the classic movies left by Hayao Miyazaki and Stanley Kubrick over and over again, or ponder the views in talk shows such as "Round Table Pie" and "Thirteen Invitations", and the breadth of the topic seems to include her endless curiosity, in other words, through Ju Xiaowen's perspective, look at the world she is staring at, you will feel very lively, there are not only cat steps and stretches.
Last year, film fan Ju Xiaowen extended her curious tentacles to the film circle, first starring in the movie "QingyaJi" with the charming and beautiful Baimu Demon, and then playing the factory girl Xiaomei in the short film "Night Belongs to Love" launched at the end of the year, looking for a disappearing lover in a long and gloomy night. It's a love story about searching, and the short film says of writer Ernest Hemingway, "It's extremely easy to be emotional about nothing during the day, but at night it's another thing." As a result, Ju Xiaowen appeared in one long shot after another, making subtle emotions fluctuate in the confusion of the night.
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Compared with the familiar fashion blockbuster shooting in the past, Ju Xiaowen said that she was confused this time and "immersed in her own world". Because the director used a lot of long shots and long camera positions during the shooting process, she often could not accurately determine the position of the shots. "The camera was often across the river, I didn't know where the camera was, I went to my pace, immersed in my own world as a factory girl looking for my boyfriend, until the director shouted, I was still quite confused." 」
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On the one hand, she generously reveals the confusion of cross-border from model to actor novice, and will explain her mind in three words, she has watched a large number of documentaries about factory girls, and will wonder what kind of state the factory girl's daily life is in, what kind of pace will be used to walk, and what kind of attitude she maintains towards love. "A small town girl comes to work in a big city, I think she should not be in a very free state, walking should be more restrained, sometimes, there will even be some nervous small movements." 」 Speaking of the last shot of the short film, this is also the first time that Ju Xiaowen tried to cry, she couldn't help but shout, "I have always felt that it is particularly difficult to act in crying scenes." Hearing people say she was crying, she laughed again, "Because I'm so tired of shooting!" That shot was the last shot, and I was more relaxed. I am a person who loves to cry every day, when I first start shooting, I will feel that the camera is holding you, and I will think that I am going to cry, and after slowly familiarizing myself with the environment, as soon as I relax, the emotions will be easily expressed. ”
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In previous interviews, Ju Xiaowen confessed that she was a true movie lover. From fans to performers, she says they're two worlds. As a screen audience, what you see is a complete and logical story, and when you really star, it is the most important thing to discover your imagination. She said, "When shooting, the order of each shot may be all scattered. Every shot, your emotions should be connected to the development of the previous story, but it has not been filmed yet, you have to imagine and analyze it yourself. ”
She says she's new to the road and can have fun getting involved occasionally. "The cinematic lens is particularly powerful, it can capture the ideas in your head too much, you have a little bit of insincerity, you will be exposed by the camera, you must have something sincere in your head, you must keep yourself in this state." 」 Everything in the world has something in common, Ju Xiaowen said of her feelings as a model, "I think the world in the model's brain is very connected with the photos that come out. Of course, the scene has the photographer's perspective, the participation of the shape, everyone has been arranged, but when you are in such an environment, the things you think in your head, the ideas and attitudes for it, expressed through your limbs, the impact on the photo is very huge. The reason why everyone is different is that her body has her own thoughts and has her own logic, so the feelings expressed will be different. ”
The footage of "Night Belongs to Love" sweeps through factories, streets and dappled tree shadows, and Xiaomei wanders in the night looking for impossible love. For Ju Xiaowen, her life is also facing the eternal proposition of "searching" - finding herself. "I've been looking for myself until now. I think back to when I was young, even before I was twenty-four or five years old, and I didn't realize who I was. ”
In Ju Xiaowen's self-perception, she is a person who grows slower than others, and has been involved in the fashion industry where everyone dresses up for 13 years, and she has only realized in recent years that girls love beauty. Before this, her attitude was more of an indifference, although she would also wear makeup and buy a lot of clothes, but how to become more beautiful has not formed a serious thinking in her heart. She also said before that when she was in her hometown of Xi'an, she didn't dare to go out without makeup, and she was never a confident person. 25 years old is like a dividing line, before that, I hadn't thought about anything, I didn't know why I was happy, why I was sad, why I said it, "I never think about these things." ”
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In 2011, the 22-year-old Ju Xiaowen first broke into New York, successfully signed a model agency IMG, and then participated in the autumn and winter Milan Fashion Week for the first time as a Prada girl and began to gain fame. That year, she was ranked first on the international website Models Top Ten Model Newcomers list. This model who bluntly said that she did not have much sense of security said that at that time, she did not think of the sense of security at all, the world was new, and the world was half-baked, with few distractions, but fearless. "At that time, I was just bold, didn't think about it, and didn't think about too many things."
She has lived in compliance with mainstream values in order to fulfill the expectations of others. "Going to school for exams, exams for advancement, going to college, just not for yourself." I'm not a person who knows what my dreams are and what to do from an early age, and I envy people who have known from an early age that they want to be a designer or an artist. I'm always looking for what kind of person I want to be. I was pushed up like this, in fact, to this day, I am still looking. ”
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By chance, she participated in the model competition, only because "when the model can make up, wear high heels, participate in the competition and have prizes", even if she breaks into the fashion industry with a very recognizable face, when the first few years of the model will not think, rarely judge, but the opportunity to catch it, see the fashion magazine coated paper has a long leg, full of vitality, sexy supermodel, will also think like all girls like "I want to become a person in the magazine, when the model is nothing more than taking pictures every day, I don't understand that feeling." It wasn't until 2012, when Ju Xiaowen first worked with British photographer Tim Walker, that she realized that she had opened up herself as a model. At that time, Ju Xiaowen was shooting a beauty blockbuster for the American version of W, she was wearing a jewel-studded Givenchy haute couture ready-to-wear dress facing the camera, and Tim Walker, who was in charge of the camera, quietly observed her every movement change, and when her hand left the pearls that spilled on the tabletop, he said, "Stay there." The experience of two people only completing a large piece of a day made her suddenly enlightened, "Just at that moment, I was enlightened, I was expressing myself, I completed the story through my body, the feeling of the scene." 」 It was from that moment that I suddenly realized, wow, that the value of the original model was here. From that moment on, she felt her joy as a model for the first time.
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Before entering the age of thirty, Ju Xiaowen had a special anxiety, and most of the anxiety at that time came from the pressure to follow social norms. "For example, I often see what kind of things you should accomplish at the age of 30, there are some conventional social standards and norms, I will be anxious, if not finished, then what should I do?" 」 How will I develop after that? Society has given me such standards, so should I accomplish these things? The conversation with Ju Xiaowen is like listening to the self-dissection of a girl's inner world, she is so straightforward, without concealment, without scruples to reveal her true inner feelings one by one. The dilemmas she has faced along the way are so similar to the identity, age anxieties, and self-searching that most women face as they grow up.
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Looking back at the experience along the way, her heart will breed the feeling of upgrading monsters and breaking through levels from time to time. "I often encounter bottleneck periods, and when I encounter bottlenecks, it is very painful in this process, but after passing this period of time, I will enter the next state." Sometimes I look back and think that every step I took, at every age I reached, was pushed backwards, and this thing was bound to happen. Every moment of life is important because you make choices at every time, and different choices have different effects. ”
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In fact, after the epidemic, Ju Xiaowen, who has worked and lived abroad for many years, has made a lot of choices in the near future, and she has shifted the focus of her career back to China. After returning to China, she remained active, shooting a large number of high-quality magazines, commercials, and also began to test the waters. The strings in Ju Xiaowen's heart were very tight, and what was urgent at the moment was that she had to rebuild the order of her life for herself, which was not as easy as she thought.
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On the phone, she was silent and said slowly, "My life now has changed so much from my previous life, and I feel like two centuries." I used to work abroad, and it used to be said that flying to New York, Milan, Beijing or Shanghai, like three meals a day, is now an inconvenient thing. While there are many things to connect online, I am now faced with how to reconcile myself, make myself urgently keep up with the pace of the times, and rebuild my life at home. I'm looking for a rhythm that suits me. ”
The aftermath of the epidemic is still shaking, affecting and even changing the world, no one is spared, in the face of changes in the future, Ju Xiaowen's sensitivity, stubbornness and deep thinking about the world have all amplified her emotions. She said that she is easily affected by the environment, when the epidemic in Xi'an is around, she will worry about her parents who are far away in her hometown, reading negative news can not breed real happiness in her heart, thinking has become the norm of daily life, she hopes to use her heart and eyes to find answers, to form her own new judgment. "I'm still looking for a rhythm to make myself comfortable, and I'm enjoying the search, and while I don't know where I'm going to end up, I'm going to have more time to think." When I'm happy, I don't think about it. I think the answers to life are all given by yourself, and you have to find the answers yourself. The process of how you look for it is the process of your self-growth. Maybe I am more stubborn, I prefer to think for myself, to find an exit, maybe the friends around me inadvertently gave me a lot of inspiration, at this time, I will absorb it. ”
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She said she was lucky. As a model, Lucky has experienced an era of the collective rise of Chinese models on international catwalks. "Today's models will be very hard, to go out for fashion week, it is not easy, to pay more time, to face more choices." I'm wondering now, what choices would I make if my career had just begun in an unpredictable era? It's hard to imagine. ”
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Blue leather gloves, gold shell earrings, gold panel necklace
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In the fashion industry with "season" as a measure of time, Ju Xiaowen has long been well versed in the rules of fashionable games, and it is often said that the modeling industry is cruel, has been facing being chosen, and no one is irreplaceable. She wanted to be relieved, "Not to replace, but to develop, and everyone faces different opportunities." Fashion is a very inclusive industry, and it is very changeable, diverse, it is fluid, no one thing can last forever, the only thing that lasts is beauty. However, the beauty required by the fashion industry in each time period is different, so there will be different faces or new things at each stage, and everyone is irreplaceable. ”
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This eccentric, I believe that talent and hard work are indispensable models After entering the age of thirty, the pattern of life has become grand and profound, Ju Xiaowen is still exploring herself, she believes that emotions are flowing all the time, people's state has been changing with the present, and will also have a touch of romantic innocence, and feel that "having the superpower of becoming happy immediately when sad" is also good. Often searching, occasionally pacing, plunging into the deep sea of self-knowledge, stirring up new thoughts. "Now I am now, and I will be moved when I see beautiful things. I recently watched Azzedine Alaia's show and it beat my heart racing! We have to do what we particularly enjoy doing, passion is something I've always wanted to look for, find something that fills me with passion, raises passion, and then tries to do it. ”
"Is modeling something you're looking for?"
Her laughter came, "Modeling is my profession, I have a lot of respect for everything I do now, and I take every job I do very seriously." I wanted to give everything I could give. But the modeling industry wasn't my choice, and I was pushed here to do it. Back to the very beginning of the topic, I have been looking for myself, perhaps the most passionate thing in my life is to find myself, haha, I am in the process of finding myself. ”
M.C.: In the fashion industry, people love to say that "the style is fleeting, the classic is eternal", what kind of things do you think can be called "classic"?
Ju Xiaowen: Something that has stood the test of time. To be gone is to be gone, to be left behind, and I would think that's the classic.
M.C.: In your mind, what are the people/things/things that can best represent the "classic"?
Ju Xiaowen: Too much, like my current WeChat avatar (a photo of Luffy in One Piece), I think it's a classic. Tang poetry and Song ci are absolutely classic, that day Elon Musk read Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem", who could have imagined that he could actually hear "why is it too urgent" from Musk's mouth? And some of the films made by Stanley Kubrick, I think it's still so fresh when I show it now. Like Marilyn Monroe, Einstein, Michael Jordan, the Tao Te Ching... There are too many of them, and these things are something you can come up with at any time to give you new inspiration and allow you to learn a lot of things.
M.C.: You have created different female images in front of the camera that are either eccentric or elegant, from a girl to a woman, how do you think about the beauty of different states of women?
Ju Xiaowen: It's so much fun to be a woman! Every woman is like water, she can appear in various forms.
M.C. What kind of beauty do you think will stand the test of time?
Ju Xiaowen: I think sincerity, sincerity is very important. Sincere beauty, sincere expression of yourself.
M.C. What style of outfit have you been looking for lately? Privately, do you have a fashion style that you would never try?
Ju Xiaowen: Recently found that I prefer denim, like shirts, this should be counted as the 80s, white shirt with a high neck base, the lower body with wide-leg jeans or lace jeans, I especially like simplicity, but also very handsome. In private, I may not be able to choose a close-fitting dress, especially when it comes to interviews, I will find it too troublesome. As I walked, my skirt accidentally cocked up and I had to pull it down. I like to sit on the legs of the stilted, the whole person will be on all sides, hahaha, I don't like the feeling of restraint, if I wear a close-fitting dress, I will always be careful not to go out of sight.
M.C.: What are you going to do before every catwalk?
Ju Xiaowen: Before the catwalk, I will definitely adjust my state again and be angry. Exercising is something I have to do.
M.C. Who do you think the hippest cartoon characters are?
Ju Xiaowen: Kirito in InuYasha. I always wanted cosplay her. I suddenly thought of my first season at International Fashion Week, walking the catwalk for Hermès, and the Look I wore made me so excited! I kept saying to Christophe Lemaire, the designer at the time, "Wow, I love that character!" Because I carry a sword, Qi Bangs, this image makes me feel particularly like a kirito, more handsome, and a little chivalrous.
M.C. Which known skill would you like to improve this year?
Ju Xiaowen: I don't have any skills, what should I do? Haha, but I want to have a new skill this year, I want to learn to dance, is it too late? I've recently become obsessed with jazz dancing and I want to learn it!
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