The April 2023 issue of ELLE of World Fashion
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The April 2023 issue of ELLE of World Fashion
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The April 2023 issue of ELLE of World Fashion
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The April 2023 issue of ELLE of World Fashion
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Every time she started work early in the morning, Liu Wen was very punctual. When she walked into the studio, her steps were light and she walked like the wind, and she greeted everyone with a smile. "Long time no see! How is everything. "Even if she works with a very familiar work partner, Liu Wen will still show the most professional working attitude." In this industry, you will still find a lot of new things that need you to constantly learn and create. She said.
No matter how time passes and how noisy the outside world is, Liu Wen always has a kind of determination - she is exceptionally calm in the face of flowers and applause. True to her modeling identity, she never felt that her influence was a privilege — her Weibo signature hasn't changed over the years: Ben is an insignificant person who accidentally falls into the big fashion stage. I am still an insignificant self, carrying too much concern from everyone.
Liu Wen has a strong sense of time. In order to be on time, she will set a lot of alarms. The time plan for work is accurate to 5 minutes. Make an appointment with your work partner that if she needs to go out at 11 o'clock, the alarm clock will go off at 10:45 to remind her that it is time to go out. "I have developed the habit of going out early since I was a child, and I think that being strict with myself is respecting others."
In the cognition of the concept of time, there is often a game: people who are late always feel that arriving early is a waste of time, and this mentality often makes punctual people bear the consequences.
Liu Wen never thought like that. "Being punctuality is the biggest gift to me," she said, "arriving early on time will give you a rare leisure time, which allows you to notice all kinds of people on the street, enjoy the scenery on the street, sometimes look up at the sky, and record a photo at hand... these are all unique experiences I get in punctuality." "When time can't be completely controlled by herself, she needs to adjust to her best fighting form." The fullest schedule was probably a few years ago at Fashion Week, which always made me feel that 24 hours a day was simply not enough. "Fashion week is very demanding on time, very uncertain, "in a day, you have to experience many things at the same time, get up in the morning to wash up, go out may be Fitting or catwalk, you need Fitting halfway through the catwalk, Fitting also needs to go to the interview halfway, and then go to the catwalk, in short, the timeline of the day will be very long..."
"At this time, you need to control the time, and you can't panic when you encounter traffic jams and other situations, and seize the time to find a more convenient means of transportation." In order to be on time, Liu Wen will take public transportation to the next place of work - taking the subway in New York and riding a motorcycle in Milan during the intense switching of fashion week.
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If you find the most turning moment in your life, Liu Wen said, it was the first time she went to Milan and Paris Fashion Week in February 2008. "If I hadn't chosen this path, I wouldn't have started the professional modeling career I wanted to pursue." After making her choice, she did not expect that she would work abroad for so long.
During her time abroad, she has suffered. At first, her English was not very good, so she took a homemade map and asked international students to help her with directions, arranged interviews and Fitting, and compressed the time for meals in order to be on time. Others felt hard looking at the dense schedule, but Liu Wen said, "Be grateful for such an opportunity." Time does not speak, but it rewards those who work hard, and during the 2009 fashion week, Liu Wen walked a total of 74 shows in New York, Milan, London and Paris, setting a record for the number of Asian models walking in a single season.
"Life is about moving forward one step at a time. Many people will say, 'It is better to travel 10,000 miles to read 10,000 books', and I think both are equally important – books build a framework for people's thoughts, and walking also allows people to draw nourishment. Liu Wen paused and said, "Since you chose the modeling industry, you just walk." ”
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The 17 years since her debut have been a "two-way rush" between Liu Wen and the modeling industry. "I'm just 'do a line, love a line.'" Touching this industry and shaping each other with this industry has given Liu Wen a wonderful experience, "It's hard to tell in words, and it's hard to bring others into your own feelings, only if you are in it, can you experience the special attraction that this profession gives you." ”
"All the work partners who have worked with her will praise her well. She will make everyone feel comfortable," said a work partner who has accompanied Liu Wen for many years between shoots, "The reason why she has come to this day and achieved these achievements is her character and hard work." ”
Although engaged in the fashion industry for many years, the freshness brought by the industry has always made Liu Wen feel that the new changes that occur every day will bring growth to people, "No matter how the times change, every time is a new beginning for me, and the next time is always the best, so I think there are still many things to learn and challenge in this industry." ”
In front of him, there was another huge empty box. After 3 years of absence, Liu Wen set off again. Will Liu Wen feel nervous during this fashion week? Yes. It's just that this tension will make her do her job better. "Fashion week seems strange to me, but it is not strange, going to the catwalk and walking the stage has become my muscle memory, once I open it, I can return to that state. But three years have passed, and the fashion industry as a whole has changed, and these changes are not something we can feel through the Internet or others' words, we need to experience it ourselves. ”
"Wait a minute." Saying that, Liu Wen suddenly took out her mobile phone, "I just thought of something, remember to put it in the suitcase when I go back." In her to-do list, the item entered her planning sequence, and she was ready to set off for a new field.
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"I am the same age as ELLE China and I am 35 years old."
A few days before the interview, Liu Wen celebrated her birthday. In between conversations, Liu Wen talked about the phrase "as we get older..." several times, and she said it naturally.
"I think age is not about numbers, it's more about a person's state of mind, as people often say, 'born from the heart'." For Liu Wen, she is still in a state of curiosity about everything and a desire to learn, "This state does not make me feel limited by my age." ”
Time also changes her – as she gets older, she cherishes it more and more. "I learn a lot from the time spent with my parents and with friends, and the time I spend with myself helps me understand what I want."
Time is fair and relative. "Age, which is more evident in the parents' generation, because our growth has a short time with our parents and fewer and fewer times, so every time we go back to get together, we will find that they are really aging, starting to have white hair, and leaving traces of years on their faces." After Liu Wen said this, the atmosphere of the entire dressing room was obviously empathized by her, and the makeup teacher put down the eyeshadow brush to calm her mood.
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This Spring Festival, Liu Wen returned to her hometown of Yongzhou and spent a week with her parents to make her feel grounded. "Three meals a day are especially punctual." Liu Wen said. This order of time with family affection made her feel intimate and familiar. I got up at eight or nine o'clock, ate breakfast, sometimes it was the silver ear porridge cooked by my father, sometimes it was the fruit prepared by my mother, and I watched TV with my father and mother after dinner, and soon the morning passed. Throughout the afternoon, fiddling with flowers and plants, reading books and chatting. The sun is shining, and there are many weather conditions at home.
Each city has its own timescale, which is the city's own face. Every time I return to Yongzhou, time slows down. Liu Zongyuan wrote in the "Eight Records of Yongzhou", "The sun and his disciples go up the mountains, into the deep forest, return to the stream, and the fountains and rocks. When they arrived, they sat in grass and poured pots and got drunk. Drunk is more pillow to bed, lying down and dreaming. Dreams are equally interesting. "On the banks of the Xiaoxiang River, there is a special scene.
Returning home this year and catching up with the good weather, Liu Wen went out with her parents for an outing. The family set off from Lengshuitan and drove one and a half hours each way along the Qileng Highway. Sitting in the car with my parents, this feeling has been absent for a long time. "There are very few opportunities like this in adulthood. Every time I went back before, it was either in a hurry or it was raining, and I rarely had the time and opportunity to go out with my parents. Watching her father drive, Liu Wen remembered that the last time her father drove her out, it was many years ago to send her to Changsha Airport and set off to work in a bigger world.
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Spring quietly arrived where the Xiang River flowed, the mountains were already green, and the new buds could already be seen, "The surface of the lake is clear green." The mountains are slightly blue, connected to the sky, there are no clouds in the sky, and it is especially nice to feel such a clear atmosphere with your family. ”
People who can navigate time are not blindly clockworked, but can calmly switch at different stages. You can be busy and enjoy leisure. In her free time, although her day is very simple, there is nothing special to do, and she still schedules her day to the fullest. "Even if I walk alone on the road, I enjoy it." In recent years, Liu Wen has developed many new hobbies – it's a well-known secret that she loves building Lego, but recently she gave up more than 3,000 pieces to focus on small objects that can be built in hours: like a childlike photo frame, or a bouquet of LEGO flowers that never withers. "Fresh flowers need extra care, but putting together a pot of orchids or cactus with Lego will also bring a feeling of spring."
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In the fashion industry, the trend continues like a wave, few people can stand at the head of the tide, and more people only become a moment. And Liu Wen is still working hard for her love and dreams. "A lot of people say that the modeling industry is a meal of youth, and you don't know how long you'll stick to your dreams. I am very grateful to the good friends and work partners I have made along the way, all of whom have allowed me to work in this job for a long time. ”
With a 17-year career, for her, "people are about doing things in the moment, even though it's very difficult." Because everyone will change a lot at different stages of life, it will subtly affect us to enter another state. The challenges I encounter at different stages will make me more grateful and cherish the career I have at the moment. ”
Speaking of this, her words revealed the ease between clouds and clouds. Reminiscent of the question about time in the movie "Eternity and One Day": "Grandpa said, time is a child, playing sandbags on the beach..." In the camera, the waves rolled and the soft piano sound slowly sounded.
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In the face of the changes of the times, Liu Wen has never stopped her outward search, she continues to grow, accept more challenges, and embrace different changes. At that time, when the video trend was in the ascendant, she launched the video program "Texture"; Later, she participated in the recording of the variety show "Mom, You Are So Beautiful", sharing her experience of modeling career, and also discovering the beauty of women of different ages. The documentary program "Odd Life" allows Liu Wen to expand more links to life.
In addition, Liu Wen in life is still the girl who is as kind as a cousin. She firmly believes that "work is work, life is life", and her attitude is simple and sincere, without the shelf of "big star". "People know me and love me because of my work, and this is the aura that work gives me. Unload that, I'm just a normal person. ”
"I have explored this road step by step, and I didn't know at the beginning that I could get to where I am today. Reconcile and self-consistency with oneself, how long the whole process takes, no one will know. Liu Wen said that time has given her growth and made her gain a better version of herself, "You just need to do yourself well and make yourself unique, and you won't care too much about the outside world, and you don't care whether you are drowned in the crowd or standing on the top of the mountain." ”
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Q&A
ELLE: What are the essential daily routines during the four periods of day, day, night and night?
Liu Wen: I will get up in the morning and drink a glass of water, do simple skin care, drink a cup of coffee and eat fruit, and then start the day. If it's a break, I clean up the house for the morning, make good use of the time after lunch, take a nap on the busy, and occasionally go to Pilates. In the afternoon, reading a book and watching a movie at home, chasing a drama and fighting for Lego, are all very enjoyable times.
ELLE: For people who are particularly strict with time management, how accurate is the time of day?
Liu Wen: Sometimes it's 5 minutes, like fashion week, the time is more stringent. The time of fashion week fluctuates greatly, and you can experience many things at the same time in a day, so you need to have a sense of control over the time to keep yourself from flustering.
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ELLE: How do you understand "the new spirit in the classics"?
Liu Wen: Retain your own style in the classics, and the newborn DNA allows the classic elements to be sublimated and breakthrough again. It is the yearning for freedom, the pursuit of elegance. Seemingly different elements are linked together by internal logic, allowing these classical elements to collide with nascent DNA.
ELLE: In fashion trends, new students often reveal the shadow of classics. What do you think are some of the new design elements that contain classic notches in between?
Liu Wen: Watches are one of my most cherished accessories. She is both an essential timekeeping tool and a very important accessory. The new elements are free and avant-garde, and in many designs, design that breaks through the box offers more possibilities – to integrate originality and elegance into everyday life. Free creativity, open the charm of time. Classic and new designs meet every free woman, telling everyone: live in the moment, go with the flow, and always be true to yourself.
Liu Wen, the cover character of the April issue of "World Fashion Garden ELLE", please click "Read the original article" at the end of the article to buy the magazine.
Photo by Liu Song
STYLING: KIDD JI
Makeup: He Lei
Hairstyle: Liu Xuemeng
Interview/Written by: He Chang
Editor: JY
Design: SHU
CONTACT EDITOR: SISSI CHEN
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Photography assistant: Xie Yufei, Tian Shixin
Fashion assistant: Zhou Yanyan
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