Left: Fan wears a skirt and top by ERDOS. Right: She wears a top by MIU MIU, poncho by JW ANDERSON, skirt by GRETA BOLDINI and shoes and
- Words Lavender Au
- Photography Jumbo Tsui
- Styling Evan Feng
FANBingbing
Left: Fan wears a skirt and top by ERDOS. Right: She wears a top by MIU MIU, poncho by JW ANDERSON, skirt by GRETA BOLDINI and shoes and
- Words Lavender Au
- Photography Jumbo Tsui
- Styling Evan Feng
- Hair Gao Jian
- Makeup Hu Yiyin
The woman who changed the face of China.
I saw Fan Bingbing many times in Beijing—staring at me from inside elevators, metro stations, airports and malls—before I ever saw one of her movies. She made her name as an actress, but ask anyone and they will tell you that pigeonholing her is to misunderstand who she is. In 2018, she crashed the server of a popular e-commerce platform by posting about a facial mask she liked.
Fan, who was born in 1981, started her career 20 years before “influencer” became a common term, but that is the only word that encapsulates what she is. No one looked like her before, but now, everyone does. Her eggshell-pale skin, large eyes and diamond-shaped jawline have inspired thousands of knockoffs. I have a hypothesis that the default filter on Meitu—Ch...
