How should we define ＂beauty＂ when vitiligo models appear on the stage of Victoria’s Secret？

"Beauty is eternal.

Because everyone is pursuing it.

Regardless of the cultural background and the changes of the times

At the same time, beauty cannot be eternal.

Because it changes rapidly. "

——《Timeless Beauty》

Part.1 What is beauty?

In 2018, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show came to a perfect conclusion. Apart from the familiar faces of Liu Wen, He Sui and Ming Xi, the most eye-catching feature of this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is the debut of vitiligo supermodel Winnie Harlow in Victoria’s Secret.

Winnie Harlow’s debut in Victoria’s Secret

Winnie Harlow’s appearance on the stage of Victoria’s Secret is not only an inspiration to vitiligo patients, but also a redefinition of beauty in the fashion world. Before that, "beauty" may be mentioned, and most people think of YCY’s small face and exquisite facial features.

However, I’d rather be 90-year-old Shar Faye than 20-year-old YCY.

Daphne Selfe, the 90-year-old international supermodel, naturally reminds people of beauty when she is mentioned. What kind of legendary old man is this? Her beauty has not faded with age. The following documentary film "Beautiful Eternity", a Chinese-French co-production to be premiered in Asia at the 2018 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival, will take us to visit and perhaps find the answer.

This 90-minute film is a large-scale survey of the global fashion world. By exploring the status of more than a dozen top models in the fashion world, let us re-examine our own aesthetics.

Timeless Beauty poster

The film is scheduled to be held at the 2018 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival.

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Part.2 Beauty has nothing to do with age

"Nature gives you a face at the age of 20.

Life shapes your 30-year-old face

And the appearance at the age of 50 depends on yourself. "

DAPHNE SELFE

Daphne Selfe

"I think everyone has a teenager living in their hearts, and I am no exception. I am very sure about this. I think my body will get old, but my mind will be younger. "

This is what Shar Fei, who is 90 years old, said in the film. She is called "the oldest model in the world". The word "old man" applies to 90 years old, but it doesn’t seem to apply to her. When other old people are lying in hospital beds, she may be walking on the runway of a fashion show.

For a long time, there has been an unwritten rule in the modeling circle that the average retirement age of female models is 26. Once you get old, it means the end of your career. Many girls enter the modeling industry at the age of 15, and by the age of 26, they are considered to be about to be scrapped.

But Shar Fei’s beauty doesn’t stop at the age of 26. She started to be a model in 1949, and now she has been a model for nearly 70 years. Even at the age of 90, she still maintains an enviable figure as a grandmother of four children.

Daphne Selfe stills

Physical aging is an inevitable natural phenomenon. Many models in the fashion circle will undergo plastic surgery to keep young and beautiful, but Shar Fei thinks that true and natural beauty can impress people. As long as you have a young mind, even if you have obvious signs of aging, you will think you are very good.

How can we keep our beauty and value? This international supermodel who has experienced the "grandmother level" in the fashion circle has her own secrets. We can sum up the beauty secrets shared by Daphne Selfe into three points: young mind, positive attitude and healthy life.

These three seemingly ordinary secrets are actually applied to our lives. Many young models strictly control their diet, and insist on fitness and exercise to shape their perfect bodies. However, compared with the beauty of appearance, Shar Fei has always maintained a young mind and a positive attitude towards life that they can’t match, and it is these inner qualities that shape her unique beauty that others can’t match.

Jasmina Rossi, another international supermodel, also has her own views on the secret of maintaining beauty.

YASMINA ROSSI

Jasmina Rossi

60-year-old Jasmina Rossi still has a girlish figure and an angelic face. She has been a catwalk for 30 years and has become a grandmother of two children, but she never wants to stop her career. She is fully armed like armor by major brands: saint laurent, Hermes Hermès and Jil sander Jil Sander. However, besides being a model, she is also a visual artist, a handcrafted artist, a photographer and a ceramist.

Jasmina Rossi stills

Despite being one of the oldest models, she is still full of confidence in herself and sticks to her true self, which is the unique flash of Jasmina Rossi.

"When I came here, I was 45 years old. At that time, my hair was gray, so I became one of the oldest models in the circle. In fact, I am very popular. Although I have always remained the same, I have not had cosmetic surgery or dyed my hair. I am who I am, purely natural and unadorned. "

Jasmina Rossi stills

Jasmina Rossi tells us that aging is inevitable, so it is better to be the truest self frankly than to escape and hide. However, many times, "old" is not a derogatory term, and the precipitation of years presents a different kind of beauty. Philip Du Masi, who became famous in his old age, is such a vivid example.

PHILIPE DUMAS

Philip Du Masi

Philip Du Masi, a 62-year-old male model, suddenly became popular on the Internet because of a group of pictures after his retirement. He always dreamed of being a model, and he happened to be a model at the age of 60. And has become the world’s oldest and sexiest male god recognized by the fashion world, an absolute international media star, and the object of competition among major model companies.

Philip Du Masi stills

Now confident and successful, he doesn’t think highly of himself when he was young. Compared with his young body, age may be a kind of accumulated and precious wealth for Du Masi.

"I feel much better about myself than when I was 20 years old. When I was young, I was very withdrawn and was a borderline autistic patient. Looking back, going out to eat and making new friends made me extremely nervous. Now, I like making friends, which makes me very happy. In the past, I lacked self-confidence. Now I am much more confident. Now I am older and more experienced, so I look at things differently. "

Philip Du Masi stills

Fashion not only brings them a way to express beauty, but also meets the demands of a group or even more people to express beauty. While maintaining their own beauty, they are also the brand of a group of people, and 60-year-old model Catherine Loy therefore loves her career.

"What interests me in my job is being able to convey information. First of all, I want to send a message to women my age. Judging from the reaction I got, they are very happy that there are people like them in the fashion industry who can represent them. Secondly, what surprised me even more was the reaction of young models, who were very positive. "

Part.4 Beauty has nothing to do with appearance (atypical model)

"We always find beauty in imperfect things.

Imperfect things are much more interesting.

Obesity, race and age will not affect the judgment of beauty. "

TESS HOLLIDAY

Tess Holliday

Tess holliday, who is only 165 in height but 22 in figure, is the first oversized model to sign a contract with a famous modeling agency. Previously, because her weight and height did not meet the model standards, she was rejected by the model selection agency many times. She once launched the "Alternative Aesthetic Standards Movement", boldly shared her fat figure, and finally got her wish and became an excellent model.

Tess holliday stills

Many years ago, Tess Hody was not recognized because of her obesity, and she was troubled and depressed. But she has been bravely pursuing beauty and calling on us to redefine the standard of beauty. She initiated the "tic-tac-toe label" movement and created a new aesthetic definition.

"This has changed my life and changed the way I look at myself. I hope others can benefit from it like me."

Although in today’s society, our aesthetics tend to be slim and slim, obesity should not be a derogatory word, it is just an adjective, even an adjective that can be linked with beauty.

In the Tang Dynasty, fat was once regarded as beauty. History has recorded that Yang Guifei, one of the four most beautiful women in ancient China, is 164 cm tall and weighs 69 kg. Therefore, the mainstream aesthetics of society does not necessarily represent beauty. Being as light as a swallow is one kind of beauty, and being round and graceful is another kind of beauty.

There is no exact definition and standard of beauty. Another atypical model, Abd Mazyani, told us that even a defect can be a unique beauty as long as it is bravely accepted and expressed.

ABDE MAZIANE

Abd al-Mazzani

Mazzani, who is also an atypical model, looks a little weird in the traditional aesthetic sense, but this is the unique feature that others can’t imitate as a model.

Abd Mazzani stills

"Appearance is not the only criterion to define beauty. It is superficial to judge beauty only by appearance. Whether fat or thin, disabled or limb-less, it is too simplistic to generalize everything into appearance, not to hide myself, but to get out of the shadows and show people that I accept myself. If I accept myself, others will accept me. "

Abd al-Mazzani’s words made us think deeply. Nowadays, many people call themselves "Appearance Association". When we pursue beauty, we automatically equate the concept of beauty with the beauty of appearance, but beauty is far from it. Youth will fade away, skins will grow old, and when all the glitz on the outside fades away, what remains is eternal beauty.

Fashion circle sells dreams

Everyone agrees with this.

Maybe in some people’s hearts.

This beautiful dream is eternal youth.

Or maybe it’s a beautiful skin

But beauty has nothing to do with these, and it is still eternal.