At the junction of urban and rural areas, the heart is at Paris Fashion Week
On August 30, 2019, a video of "using the countryside as a catwalk" was liked by many people and also appeared on the hot search list.
In the video, a slender-looking boy, dressed in women's clothing, confidently uses the mountain dirt road as a catwalk, sometimes walking barefoot on the grassy grass, sometimes wearing high heels on the path at the mouth of the village, with sharp eyes and full of confidence, as if he is in a big-name show.
The young man who turned the countryside into an international catwalk is today's protagonist, as a rural guy, but with his own charm, he has stepped onto the international stage, who is this lu immortal?
In 1999, Lu Xianren was born in Liuwang Village, Hengxian County, Guangxi, and his original name was Lu Kaigang.
His family situation is very ordinary, his parents are crane drivers, but in order to survive, so he will work near Foshan in Guangdong All year round.
When Lu Xianren was young, like many rural children now, those who grew up with their grandparents belonged to left-behind children.
Because his parents are away all year round, Lu Xianren's personality is very independent when he is young, but because of the lack of parental company, his personality and the personalities around him are incompatible.
Moreover, Lu Xianren was an only child, and he did not have the company of his younger siblings, which slowly caused him to be more sensitive and introverted, and he did not like to talk much.
In the eyes of his friends, he is eccentric. While friends of the same age like to play games and run around the village in droves, Lu Xianren stared intently at the model catwalk on the TV.
The eyes were full of yearning, so the little Lu Xianren decided that he would become a model himself, but this model was a little special, and he wanted to be a female model.
This idea is crazy, although I don't know if this whimsical dream can be realized, but it is the only source of happiness in Lu Xianren's boring life.
So under limited conditions, he began to seize every opportunity to learn model steps. Because when he walks the model step, he feels that he is shining, which can bring great happiness to himself.
There is no catwalk, he created his own, the road home from school is a natural catwalk, because the home is far from the school, it takes nearly an hour or so to walk.
Therefore, this journey became a time for him to practice walking on the stage. But friends of the same age did not understand his behavior. When they saw Lu Xianren learning to walk with a female model, twisting and pinching, everyone laughed at him as a female cannon.
When Lu Xianren heard such a discussion, he was hurt in his heart.
But because of his love of catwalks, he endured silently alone. I have to say that his heart is still very strong. However, due to his poor grades, he did not enter high school like ordinary children, but chose vocational high school.
Almost all the students in the vocational high school have relatively poor grades and come to the school to mess around.
So the learning experience during this period was undoubtedly painful for him.
When the students around them are going to various entertainment venues every day, eating, drinking and having fun, Lu Xianren cannot be the same as them because of his family situation.
Therefore, in the new school, he once again became an outlier in the eyes of his classmates, and his sense of existence was not strong.
And this time, he can use four words to describe it. In the case of internal struggle, Lu Xianren chose to drop out of school and go home, but Lu Xianren, who had no skills, could not go home and eat the old, so in order to survive, he had to go out to work.
Second paragraph
Before becoming a supermodel, Lu Xianren's profession was only a humble restaurant assistant.
With no education and no skills, Lu Xianren could only do some simple work, so he went to the restaurant and began to help cook.
However, Lu Xianren, who was not here, insisted on it for a short time, and soon chose to resign because of his low salary and boring work. Later, like many children of the same age who dropped out of school, they worked on the assembly line in the factory.
Fortunately, in the days of working in the factory, Lu Xianren did not forget his dream of modeling. And more fortunately, Lu Xianren encountered a better era.
Short videos flourished, giving the "grassroots" the opportunity to become famous. Although he is very busy at work every day, as long as he has time, he will brush short videos like most people.
When brushing videos, I saw that many people were releasing some various types of videos taken by themselves, and short videos could also be monetized, and Lu Xianren was also moved by this.
However, due to limited economic conditions, he could not buy some clothes for the catwalk, and could only make them himself.
Whether it's sacks, plastic bags or some old clothes, he makes the most of his strengths and customizes his catwalk costumes for himself.
But when colleagues who worked together in the factory saw Lu Xianren putting plastic bags and sacks on his body, they all thought that he had a brain disease.
However, there are still some colleagues who have a good relationship with him, willing to help him and become his free videographer, but the good times are not long, due to the lack of understanding of self-media in the early stage, the short videos shot are not watched by many people.
Moreover, Lu Xianren himself has many requirements for editing, as well as the angle of shooting, and many colleagues slowly lose patience to help him.
As soon as he saw him wearing his own DIY clothes, he immediately turned away from him, and slowly Lu Xianren felt that the life in the factory was too boring.
Although he was able to get some pleasure from his own catwalk, he was gradually discouraged by the discussion of him by the people around him, so this time he resigned decisively.
Unable to survive in the big city, he decided to return to his hometown, so he rode his bicycle directly back to his hometown.
Although there are nearly five hundred kilometers from the place of work to his hometown, Lu Xianren, who does not accept defeat in his bones, actually rode hard to his home and returned to his hometown from the city, and he decided to do short videos full-time, because he thought that he would one day rely on short videos to realize his dreams.
So every day when I wander around the village and see something useful, I will pick them up at home, wash them, and then make them into clothes to wear on the body and walk the catwalk.
However, shooting short videos is not something you can do alone, so cousins, uncles, and classmates have become their own photographers.
His country fashion show officially opened, whether it was a snakeskin woven bag picked up from the village, or some old waste, as long as it reached the hands of Lu Xianren, it could almost turn decay into magic.
He can make branches into luxury skirts, and he will also use curtains and belts to design a set of high-end clothes that look full of design and wear on his body.
The muddy path in his hometown has become his natural catwalk, and he can confidently walk on his own catwalk every day.
Although there was some buzz everywhere in the village about himself, he believed that one day he would go to the real catwalk.
The real turning point for him was on March 28, 2019, when he began to officially release videos, the photographer who helped him shoot was his cousin, and each video he shot, under his strict requirements, was almost indistinguishable from professional photographers.
Third paragraph
After watching Lu Xianren's video, I realized that some people were born to eat this bowl of rice.
Lu Xianren's own sensitivity to fashion is very strong, and the color sense of the clothes he designs is very outstanding.
Coupled with its own super sense of lens, although it looks out of place with the surrounding environment, the videos he shoots have an inexplicable magic that attracts everyone to watch.
Until one of his videos had up to 2 million likes overnight, and it also landed on a hot search.
In the video, he walks in his yard wrapped in a blanket, as if on the international stage, full of confidence, and this time the code name of "country supermodel" appears for the first time.
At this time, everyone really paid attention to the supermodels who came out of this village, which attracted the attention of the public.
But when the popularity and non-discussion came to him together, he was still greatly hurt. Netizens jokingly said that he was a grassroots wild model, and many other netizens even ridiculed Lu Xianren, who did not shoot some curious videos in order to become popular.
Although at the beginning, when he saw the comments that were critical of him, Lu Xianren would also feel sad and silently scold the other party anonymously.
But later there were more comments, and he slowly chose to reconcile with himself and no longer look at everyone's comments about him. I only insisted on my goal of becoming a model.
As Lu Xiangren's popularity grew, many fashion magazines also noticed it and began to report on him, and supermodel jin Dachuan also specially posted articles praising his unique temperament.
Because in the video, he takes a confident step and his eyes are sonorous and powerful, although behind him are the muddy roads in the countryside or the rotten tail buildings of the broken factories, but under his leadership, it seems to be the international stage.
Lu Xianren has gained a large number of fans by breaking the inherent gender model, unique cat steps, and pairing them with creative clothing designed by himself.
Finally, the insults dissipated, and the comments were all praise for him: "Senior face, catwalk has its own typhoon." After that, Lu Xianren got the opportunity to go to Paris and London for a catwalk, and there were professional designers tailor-made for him.
Then, Lu Xianren was invited to participate in various fashion shows, and also went to see the show abroad as a guest, which is not available to many international supermodels, and in 2020, he has become a "new star" shining on the international stage.
And in the international catwalk show, he can also stand in the center, he can be said to be a complete fire.
He has neither a background nor a degree, but he is relying on his own efforts to move from the countryside to the international step by step, and the hardships in the middle are self-evident.
But Lu Xianren said in an interview that one of his favorite sentences is: I am an ordinary person, and I will do my best to be different.
It is very difficult for boys to challenge female models in girls' clothes.
But in the face of the world's vision, he has the courage to break people's inherent cognition, to be true to himself, to do whatever he wants, and to only do what he is happy with. His sincerity and bravery touched many netizens.
Although many ordinary people are like Lu Xianren, they can't choose their origins, but as long as everyone works hard, the efforts of the day after tomorrow can also change our destiny, as long as everyone persists.
For Lu Xianren, where there is any overnight fame, behind the explosion is actually their own accumulated efforts and efforts, as long as they have dreams in their hearts and fight unremittingly, small people can also be on the big stage and sparkle.