Liu Wen (born January 27, 1988) is a Chinese fashion model. She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. In 2010, she became a face of Estée Lauder alongside Constance Jablonski.
Liu was born on January 27, 1988, in Yongzhou, a city in the Hunan province of China. Because of China's official "one-child" policy Liu is an only child. Before modeling full time she was working as a tour guide. Her mother encouraged her to be professional, to eat well, and to enter the modeling contest which led to Liu Wen's discovery.
Liu started her modeling career in 2005 when she entered the
New Silk Road World Model Contest, a contest previously won by international covergirl Du Juan. Although she did not win that competition Liu Wen soon began working fulltime as a model, becoming a national success story when she landed the cover of
Chinese FHM. She accepted modeling work with Chinese fashion magazines like
Vogue and
Harper's Bazaar. In September 2007, Liu caught the attention of the international fashion industry when she shot a
Cosmo editorial in clothes designed by Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor and Rolf and would later walk for each of those firms. She was invited to Paris in 2008, and signed with the Marilyn Agency.
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