Liu Wen | |
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Wen at New York Fashion Week, September 2013
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Born |
Liu Wen January 27, 1988 Yongzhou, Hunan |
Website | Official instagram account of Liu Wen |
Modeling information | |
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Hair color | Black |
Eye color | Brown |
Manager |
The Society Management (New York City) Storm Model Management (London) Elite Model Management (Milan & Paris) |
Liu Wen (simplified Chinese: 刘雯; traditional Chinese: 劉雯; pinyin: Liú Wén; born January 27, 1988) is a Chinese fashion model represented by The Society Management and based in New York City. She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the first spokesmodel of East Asian descent for Estée Lauder and the first Asian model to ever make Forbes magazine's annual highest-paid models list. In 2012, The New York Times named her "China’s first bona fide supermodel". She became the first Chinese model to ever appear on the front cover of American Vogue in 2017.
In an April 2014 article about social media's rise in the fashion industry, American Vogue remarked that she had "by far, the biggest social-media audience of any model". Models.com dubbed her as the first ever Asian "New Supermodel" in July 2014. And in October of the same year, Liu became the first person in the world to showcase an Apple Watch on a magazine cover when she appeared on Vogue China's November 2014 issue.
In April 2015, she and South Korean singer Choi Siwon participated in a Chinese spin-off of the South Korean variety show We Got Married.