from Vogue.com
Fei Fei Sun China
Sun entered a local beauty contest in 2007 at the urging of a professor at China’s Suzhou University, where she was studying design. The competition proved fateful—aside from introducing Sun, now 31, to her future husband, it propelled her toward modeling success in Shanghai. Still, the transition from creator to muse wasn’t seamless. “When I was growing up, it was hard for me to find a role model from the fashion-and-beauty world because of the lack of visibility of anyone who looked like me,” she says, “but I hope we will continue to see more and more growth in diversity.
Fei Fei Sun China
Sun entered a local beauty contest in 2007 at the urging of a professor at China’s Suzhou University, where she was studying design. The competition proved fateful—aside from introducing Sun, now 31, to her future husband, it propelled her toward modeling success in Shanghai. Still, the transition from creator to muse wasn’t seamless. “When I was growing up, it was hard for me to find a role model from the fashion-and-beauty world because of the lack of visibility of anyone who looked like me,” she says, “but I hope we will continue to see more and more growth in diversity.
