The hottest fashion face from China right now only started on her modelling journey in
Spring/Summer 2018 but almost instantly Xie Chaoyu shot to the top, scoring runway
spots at Prada, Givenchy, Fendi and JW Anderson—all in her debut season. Very soon,
the industry’s most visionary photographers were clamouring to work with her. To date,
she’s been photographed by establishment superstars like Tim Walker, Willy Vanderperre,
Karim Sadli and Sølve Sundsbø as well as the brightest young image-makers of today such
as Hanna Moon, Colin Dodgson, Zoe Ghertner, Leslie Zhang and Zeng Wu.Part China doll, part alien beauty—her distinctive visage has graced the covers of Dazed,
Numero China and Harper’s Bazaar China, and the editorial pages of international style
bibles like Another Magazine, Self Service and Wallpaper China. Xie has also racked up
mutiple Vogue credits in a short amount of time with appearances in the British, Italian,
Chinese, Australian and Korean editions. The fashion chameleon has also transformed
herself into multiple characters for the industry’s biggest campaigns—from embodying
the intellectual cool of Prada to bringing out the earthy romance of Moncler Genius
Simone Rocha.TEXT JEFFREY YAN HAIR BON FAN ZHANG/BON HAIR MAKEUP XIN MIAO MAKEUP ASSISTANT ZOE
ZHANG PRODUCERS OOLONG & JIAOZI PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANTS BEI YUAN & ECHO WONG LIGHTING
ASSISTANT DONGBIN QIAO STYLING ASSISTANT ZHIKE MODEL XIE CHAOYU/XING MANAGEMENT