How did Lv Yan walk out of the mountains and become a world famous model?

Ugliness is many people's first impression of her, because it is completely different from the public aesthetic. With narrow eyes, high cheekbones, flat nose and thick lips, Lv Yan has become the "ugliest supermodel" in everyone's mouth. Even after 20 years of debut, there are still many criticisms about her.

But she is the first internationally recognized China model, and her international supermodel road is very bumpy.

Lv Yan, a model highway in Lv Yan, was born in De 'an mining area, Jiangxi. That place can be said to be barren. "You can't kill it, you can't crush it, you can't burn it." Her family condition is not very good. Her father is a barber and her mother is a farmer to the core.

She followed the boys in the village up the mountain and down the river since she was a child. She is cheerful and full of energy. "Nobody treats me like a girl." For a long time, she was the only girl in the local game hall.

After graduating from junior high school, she went to Nanchang to study accounting. When she was about to graduate, she saw a physical training class enrolling students. She is tall, hunched and a little touched.

After joining this class for a while, it happened that the model class next door was going to Beijing to participate in the competition, and one person was missing. Lv Yan, whose height is 178cm, was pulled to make up the numbers. She is not interested in models, but she is attracted by food and clothing and can take a free trip.

Unexpectedly, she later fell in love with modeling, and a month later, she met Bole Li Dongtian.

At first, she thought that the model only needed to walk on the runway in beautiful clothes, but after training, she gradually got a clearer understanding. Although the preliminary contest was brushed off, she did not choose to leave, but stayed in Beijing to seek development opportunities. She began to be interviewed by major fashion magazines that wanted models.

One day, when she was interviewing in a magazine, she met a photographer named Feng Hai. He was taciturn and told her to "look around". During the interview, she wore a pair of short-sleeved loose pants and felt very rustic. After reading it, he was silent and didn't speak. At this moment, a little fat man came in. He looked at it and said happily, "You are particularly beautiful, really beautiful!" "

She was flattered. For the first time since childhood, someone praised her as "beautiful". And this little fatty is now the father of domestic makeup, top stylist Li Dongtian.

He said to her, "You are sure to be popular, and you will be popular all your life."

To this end, he designed a model for her, a very simple and casual model, with only dozens of "freckles" on both sides of her nose. Feng Hai took this photo for her, and later made a huge poster and hung it on Wangfujing Street, the most prosperous street in Beijing.

Passers-by began to talk about it, some said it was really ugly, and some said it was very personal. But no matter what people say, Lu Yan is very angry.

After going to Paris alone for a year, she met two agents of the French Metropolitan Model Agency. They are attracted by her unique temperament and think that her "oriental face" has a unique beauty. So I stopped her and asked her if she was a model and would like to go to Paris to develop.

Hearing this, she almost replied without hesitation: "Good". She thought to herself that she was a rookie, why not go out to make a living? If a model has a foothold in China, she may hesitate to face the requirements of foreign model agencies, but she has nothing and is fearless. Two months later, she came to Paris alone.

At the end of the same year, she participated in the international supermodel competition, where she was dazzling and won the trophy of runner-up. Lv Yan became famous in the First World War! Lv Yan is the first China model to win the second place in supermodel, and also the highest ranking in the history of China models.

With the strength of supermodel runner-up, she became the darling of major shows in the next few years. He has been published in major international fashion magazines, and served as the spokesperson for Hermes, Benetton, L 'Oreal and other brands. Her annual salary is as high as $6.5 million, and she has become a model in China. Her name is well-known at home and abroad.

Restless, she started to create her own brand. 20 13, Lv Yan stopped modeling and went back to Shanghai to set up a personal brand studio. But the studio is not as simple as imagined.

In order to understand the whole industrial chain, she had to start with fabrics, so she ran to the fabric wholesale market and hit a wall. The shopkeepers were either busy or ignored her, and she felt very lost. When modeling, everyone revolves around her, and she doesn't have to do anything herself. But starting a business is different now. She has to figure out the whole process and do it herself. However, Lv Yan was not discouraged. She quickly adjusted her mentality and re-entered the battle, learning step by step and learning step by step.

Today, the fashion brand "COMME MOI" founded by Lv Yan has reached its eighth year, and her team has grown from three people at the beginning to dozens now. And more and more people like her brand design, many domestic and foreign stars like it, including Sun Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Yu, Christina, Qu Ying and other stars are her frequent visitors.

Many people say that Lv Yan is lucky for her success, but her success is by no means luck. Part of my luck is that I met Li Dongtian and Feng Hai. With their first acquaintance, I later met a French agent and had the opportunity of promotion. But everything else depends on her efforts. There are also many models from China who have the opportunity to go to Paris, but Lv Yan, who overcame all difficulties and persisted, was the first.

From being ridiculed by Chinese people for being ugly, to becoming an international supermodel, and now to becoming a designer and founder of fashion brands, Lv Yan's counterattack is enough to give strength to ordinary people. She is the first supermodel in China!