Last week, Zheng Xiuwen's 49th birthday.
Du Qifeng and his wife were at home, and arranged a small birthday party for her and another birthday friend, and even Gu Tianle came to celebrate.
On the 18th, Sammi also held a birthday mini-song party, a tradition that had been suspended for several years.
Although it is a mini-song party, the configuration and production are not lost at all, and both visually and audibly are enough to make the audience enjoyable.
The Sammi transformation link that everyone is most looking forward to has not fallen, and four or five shapes have been changed throughout the game.
As a red control, she set the theme of this concert as red, in addition to the lighting and stage effects, the costumes are also mainly red.
The red and black plaid coat worn when taking a big photo with fans is very eye-catching, although it is an everyday style, but the surface of the whole coat is flashing on both sides, enough to catch a horse.
The fans in the picture below are very vocal.
Silk scarf shawl shaped top, with bright red over-the-knee boots this set is even more praised by fans, the phone booth stage installation in front of the singing of "Crying Game", the whole mood is full of horses.
The ever-changing stage will never disappoint us.
Now when Zheng Xiuwen is mentioned, she is always inseparable from the four words of "a hundred changes in the queen of heaven", in fact, she did not start out like now, a look of "everything dares to wear, anything can wear".
From the debut of the jade girl to the fashion pioneer of Hong Kong artists, how did she come about this way?
Zheng Xiuwen's debut to fame is a smooth sailing.
In 1988, Zheng Xiuwen participated in the "Seventh Rookie Singing Competition" and won the bronze medal with a song "Dry a Cup".
At that time, she was only 16 years old, her face was full of collagen, a little baby fat, the whole face had fewer edges and corners, and there was a kind of traditional Chinese woman's elegance.
The smile is sweet, with a round and thick lip shape, giving people a feeling of sweetness and pure affection.
After signing with Huaxing Records, he was set to take the route of pure love jade girl.
In the early days, many of her roles and styling in film and television dramas were based on this positioning.
This path is not for her.
Compared with the jade female stars of the same period, Zhou Huimin has big eyes and small mouths, sweet and delicate; Qiu Shuzhen is cute and sexy, is a jade girl, and is even more a lustful woman.
Zheng Xiuwen is indeed pure, but the bone phase is indeed a few points worse than the previous two.
The round face brought by baby fat makes her face white too much, and she has a sense of shyness but lack of charm.
This style not only failed to leave a deep impression on the audience, but even she herself quickly got tired of it.
She is more suitable for a big woman with a little aura, slender willow eyebrows, deepened lower eyeliner eyeshadow, and with big red lips, the elite woman's charm will come out immediately.
The long wavy curls of her hair cover her slightly fleshy cheeks and looks more alive and fashionable.
People who know a little about Zheng Xiuwen know that in her bones, she is not a character who is at ease with a path to the end.
A few years after her debut, she began her "path of changeable queens".
What was the most sensational thing about that year? She dyed her blonde hair.
It may sound nothing now, but in 1994 in Hong Kong, she was the first blonde star in Hong Kong.
Before dyeing, I was asked by the company if I was crazy, and finally I defied all difficulties or followed my own heart to dye, and the effect was described as "shocking the Hong Kong entertainment industry".
And that wasn't all it took, and soon she was dying her red hair again.
It is no exaggeration to say that the trend of hair coloring in Hong Kong at that time was led by Sammi.
Of course, changing hair color is definitely not able to support the name of "Changeable Queen", and when it comes to "Changeable", how can not get around her concert style.
Not only are there many, but each set is amazing.
"TVB Weekly" even commented: "Most of the people who go to see Zheng Xiuwen's concert want to see more clothes than live interpretation." ”
Since the first solo concert, "Sammi X Space Concert" (1996), Zheng Xiuwen has been very concerned about his stage image, in order to lose weight in order to take the photogenic effect, even the costumes and makeup are not ordinary.
The NIKE eyebrows that brought fire in this concert are still a fixed collocation behind the three words of Zheng Xiuwen to this day.
This eyebrow was created by the famous Hong Kong makeup artist A Zing and ran through the concert. The back is matched with a rose headdress, which makes this shape rich and surprising, and it is difficult to remember it.
This controversial shape made her usher in countless applause, and also sent her directly to the cover of the gossip magazine, so everyone knows that she is good at making a shape.
This has also become an important milestone in her ever-changing path. Since then, her makeup on her eyebrows has reached the point of being out of control.
The colored feathered eyebrow shape of the 2000 album "Eyebrow Flying Dance".
In 2007, she made a comeback to sing "Show Mi", and she also tried the big thick eyebrows in rose red. (Actually a little bit of appreciation can not come)
I also tried to cut out the dragon's horn eyebrows using black sand cloth.
This eyebrow shape pairs with her halterneck V-neck top, which is really too wild, I like it!
In the 2014 "Touch Mi" concert, the whole audience's unchanged ultra-thin eyebrows + layers of rainbow-colored eyeshadow achieved explosive discussion, playing eyebrows and eye makeup, she has reached the point of being fascinated.
Wang Zulan also imitated it in "Ace".
In the 2016 "Touch Mi 2" concert, the promotional poster laid the groundwork for Zheng Xiuwen's "eyebrow flying color dance".
The double feather eyebrows are also said to be a bit like Li Ning's logo hahahahaha.
At the 2019 "Follow Mi" concert, she also combined NIKE eyebrows and feather eyebrows to commemorate her first concert in the Red Pavilion 20 years ago.
In 2001, I was even more stunned by this one:
This is the bra, only the braids of the wig are fixed to the front, the accessories that connect the head, and the whole fun super-foot.
I don't really want to hide it, when I watch it, I always worry that she will run out.
My favorite is the 19-year concert set, designed by Tomas Chan, a stylist who has been working with Zheng Xiuwen for many years and the "father of Hong Kong concert costumes".
The bra top, knight paded shoulder short top connected by all pearls, even if the color saturation is not high, but the luster of the pearl can also flash the whole field.
Notice that the bag of wheat in the back waist is also part of the styling
The ultra-short jeans on the lower body also have "something to see".
The front looks like it's okay, turn around the side and back and immediately let you feel what a wild woman is.
After singing "Don't Alarm Love", she also playfully lifted her shorts, so that everyone could quickly appreciate her beautiful body and practice her beautiful peach buttocks hahahahaha.
When it comes to the concerts of Hong Kong singers, all kinds of horse-catching dresses must be the highlight.
As a day of change, the styling expenses of Zheng Xiuwen's concert are sky-high every time, and the costumes are mostly customized, and it is not too much to say that this is a couture scene.
In the 19-year "Follow Mi" concert, Sammi's changeable, has exploded to the point that a song has to change into two sets of clothes.
Different from the design of the previous scenes from dark to light, this opening is very happy and bright, and the adapted music version of "Lifelong Beauty" sounded, and Zheng Xiuwen rose directly from the background.
She wears a white alien couture of the domestic designer brand Windowsen, and a pair of hugely tall thick-soled shoes.
Can you appreciate it aside, the explosion is sure that seeing Sammi come out, the whole field immediately boiled.
Half a song later, she stepped down at a breakneck pace and changed into a fluorescent pink dress with a neon effect, which came from Windowsen like the white one.
The structure of this piece is more exciting than the former, whether it is the elevated shoulder line, or the tailored skirt, the mermaid gauze skirt, and the gorgeous stage effect is full.
A song to change two sets of clothes, Zheng Xiuwen is not the first time to do this, she tried it when she came back to the concert in 2007.
The lights went out and only left to chase the light, she stood in the center of the stage in a black dress, tied two flash lights at her ankles, tied a whole piece of silver tassels around her waist, walked around, and the tassel behind her flashed like a star under the light, so beautiful.
Halfway through the song, she stepped down to change into the Dark Queen look.
It seems fine to look at alone, but with the lighting of the headdress, the lighting of the stage is focused, and the hem of the extra-long dress is the form of a "big tree".
This also means that Zheng Xiuwen has become more tenacious and strong after three years of rest, and now tells everyone that she can start again.
The opening of the "Love Mi" concert in 2009 was so burning that I would like to call it "the super invincible light bulb of the fashion diva".
The clothes were covered with Swarovski crystals, and the hat and the front of the "sharp arrow" to be measured were all glowing small lights, shining brightly. Then step on the knee knight boots, the whole look is simply handsome.
The whole scene was black, Zheng Xiuwen sang while the stage lights were on, and the stage equipment rushed up and down. I just watched the DVD, but also feel excited, if on the scene, I should have goosebumps, just see here I think it is worth the ticket price!
If I want to say my favorite, or the 19-year concert set of oversize suits with broken diamond tears makeup, the impact is too strong.
The whole makeup look also doesn't come out of thin air, with lyrics perfect match.
Whether it is a stage installation, a stage performance, a prop, or the dress of Zheng Xiuwen's appearance, the white shirt after the jacket is taken off, and the broken diamond tie, they all give me a sense of rebirth from trapping myself to releasing myself, which is particularly wonderful.
If you look at the costumes of the concert with the eyes of watching daily costumes and watching celebrities on TV shows, it is normal not to understand.
Not only Zheng Xiuwen, the costumes of Hong Kong celebrity concerts are always so gorgeous and so pompous, they are simply holding a heart of "scared you are not satisfied" in the open show.
"Tomorrow I want you to go to the Red Pavilion to sing, what to wear may not be difficult for you, extremely exaggerated and extremely robbed..."
——Huang Weiwen, "What to Wear for the Awards Ceremony"
As the name suggests, the concert contains two parts, "acting" and "singing", which you can understand as an all-round comprehensive art performance of performers.
In addition to singing and dancing, costume styling, makeup accessories, and stage installations are all things that the performer team needs to consider.
The stars also hope that all fan audiences who have spent real money and silver to watch the concert can enjoy a special, vivid and exciting audio-visual feast.
In fact, the first to engage in this kind of pompous stage style was not the Hong Kong star concert, but the singers Sachiko Kobayashi and Kenichi Mikawa who performed in the Japanese Red and White Song Festival.
One song, within 2 minutes, changing three sets of clothes is a routine operation, and each set is big, heavy and shiny.
It will also be combined with some lights and electricity.
Many costumes are as high as a few meters, the heaviest can even be calculated by tons, and it is said that some clothing costs as high as hundreds of millions of yen.
When we watch singers singing from variety shows, because the recording stage is usually not large, the camera will cut a lot of close-ups, and even if the singers dress normally, the audience will not feel the emptiness of the stage.
This is not the case with the concert stage.
The stage is super big, one person has two feet, and the footprint is really limited. As the focal point of the stage, the singer must find a way to let the audience see you for the first time.
Colorful and conspicuous colors, skirts with a large area, headdress accessories three or four times larger than the head, a large number of accompaniment dances... All this is to make the stage look less empty and make the audiovisual effect more shocking.
There's another reason: for the sake of friends at the top of the mountain.
People who have seen the concert should know that the top of the mountain is really far from the stage. Coupled with the fact that there are a lot of people sitting in front of you, if it is not the singers, dancers, and musicians who are dressed in exaggerated clothes, it is easy to see clearly, and you will be watching the big screen all night long.
Back to Zheng Xiuwen.
She once mentioned in an interview that she will add more artistic performances to the performance and bring more different stage effects.
Many times in order to have a better stage presentation, Zheng Xiuwen will also support the production out of his own pocket.
Hairstyles and makeup are also willing to cooperate with stylists to try a variety of style changes.
Musically, we enter the best state in advance, and we dare to challenge new dances every time.
In 2019, Zheng Xiuwen held 13 "Follow Mi" concerts at hung hom stadium, becoming the third female singer to hold more than 100 concerts in the Red Pavilion after Xu Xiaofeng and Mei Yanfang.
This year, Zheng Xiuwen's path of change is still continuing.
She launched her 41st physical disc. Yes, a lot of singers don't think about making physical albums anymore, and she's still insisting.
Insist on yourself, but also for the Guangdong song.
Shooting the MV, the shape is still pioneering and gorgeous, and the set is also very careful, which makes people feel that the production budget is burning at a glance.
Sammi abused herself, still not at all soft-hearted.
Marathon shooting MV, the day is almost dawn is still filming the rain scene, hard work does not need to say more, but she said:
At that time, my physical strength was exhausted, but my heart was full of fire.
We all know that there are "four kings" in the Hong Kong music scene.
In fact, at that time, there were also "four great queens" -
Peng Ling, Wang Fei, Li Huimin and Zheng Xiuwen.
The first three, there are husbands and children at home, some live into myths, some called new works in preparation but there is no wind... Only Zheng Xiuwen is still insisting.
Depressed and comeback, betrayed and chosen to forgive, the Academy Awards eight finalists are all accompanied by running, she is still insisting.
Stick to her passion for singing, acting and fashion.
She showed the audience who are keen to chew gossip, showing a different model for Hong Kong female stars:
Not to marry into the rich, not to return to the hidden family, but 49 years old, still relying on a fire in the heart, continue to work hard, insist on shining on the stage.
Finally, be late and say:
Happy Birthday Sammi!
Showbiz has you amazing!