Connie Chiu is one fierce bitch

I figured a good way to start off was blogging about some of my style inspirations- people that maybe not have a style that inspires mine directly, but have a well... inspiring style nonetheless :B

First up is the model Connie Chiu, a chinese model with albinism. I stumbled upon her photos on the interwebs a while back and well, let me direct you back to the title of this post. Sadly she seems to be a rather enigmatic figure, even her own website gives only a couple paragraphs about herself.

From what I can gather is she was born to Chinese parents in Hongkong 1969 but grew up in Sweden. After going through art school for photography she sent a photo off to Jean Paul Gaultier and was asked to appear in one of his couture runway shows. Since then she has worked with various fashion photographers including Terry Richardson, Paul Burley, Heidi Niemala, and Morten Smidt, and appeared on the runways modeling designs by Margie Tsai, Ann Huybens, Marc Lebihan, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella Cadante and more. Asside from modeling, she also has an intrest in writing, poetry and journalism. Sadly though if any of these works are available on the internet to the general public at all, my google fu is too weak to find them.



More photos under the jump!

I hate to repeat my self, but is she fierce or what ?

For those who want to know more, her official website is right here: http://www.conniechiu.com/

There is an interview with her in the March 2009 Issue of Vice Magazine- the entire interview isn't up on the internet, but the photo spread is : http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n3/htdocs/fashion-connie-chiu-712.php?country=

Also there was an interview with here in German Vogue: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.vogue.de/articles/models/models/connie-chiu/2004/09/13/05815&ei=wdSdSeSAOoai-gasieWxCg&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCONNIE%2BCHIU%2BVOGUE%26hl%3Den (link goes to the google translate version)

For those of you who want to see her in action, she was interviewed in the BBC documentery Jesse: My new face, and appears in two music videos, Stalker by Recoil and a version of Maddening Shroud ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0s0fSeSSbU ) by Acacia.