Chenman's Great Wall fashion photography

Chenman is not a man. She's a Beijing-born twenty-something woman who has become one of the most well-known fashion photographers in China. She does a lot of high profile work, like covers for Chinese Vogue and ads for Adidas and Sony Ericsson, but I love her personal stuff the best. Here's a shot of unlikely supermodel Lv Yan rocking out on the Great Wall. (The last fashion photography I saw at this location was by Tyra Banks for ANTM. Not quite as stunning.)

Chenman's web site via NotCot

( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)

• [the specialist]

  is this “fashion”, or just an attempt to be freakier than the next “model” or “rock star” ???

  somebody pLeAsE buy her two hamburgers!! and a large shake. ick.

• [Machinehead]

  @10 – Totally agree, her website is awesome. Keep sending us beautiful and stunning material Lisa.

• [ncm]

  Of course there is no such object as The Great Wall. It’s a brilliant marketing construct. Certainly there are lots of walls in China, some very old, some very photogenic (not the same ones), but they don’t connect up to form a single object no matter how you define it.

  The breakout success of the marketing ploy is suggested by the fact that people who insist the moon landings were a hoax believe nonetheless that you can see “The Wall” from there. (No, you can’t.)

• [BlueGrrl]

  Wonderful work on her website! Thanks for sharing.

• [Slartybardfast]

  Nice photo, but the size 0 model makes me feel sick. I hope that she is Photoshoped to be like that. If not she really needs medical help…

• [Bek]

  Wow. Not the set of comments I was expecting.

  A. Different cultural definition of beauty.

  Size Standard:
  Japanese/Chinese < American < Latin

  B. She looks completely natural to me.

  But, I’m small and have a pair of silver lame’ tights too. You would not believe the things they do to your body.

  That said, the only photoshopping possibility I could see is under the leg where the shadows are, but the bottom thigh seems even with the raised thigh.

• [Jamie Sue]

  There’s more than one photoshop disaster in that lot.

  Not to mention some disasters of proper nutrition.

• [Not a Doktor]

  The hair is coming to eat me

• [Steven]

  the offhandedness of the “not quite as stunning” comment is troubling to me, but i’ll not infer as to ms. katayama’s motivation. suffice it to say i think that the other image is more compelling on a number of counts.

• [Jeff]

  I love the shoes, but is there a matching purse?

• [Apreche]

  That is one scary skeleton.

• [Takuan]

  was she in Kung Fu Hustle?