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Business
Watch: ‘Live mannequins’ on treadmills at Chinese clothing store
A resurfaced video of a Chinese clothing store displaying real models walking on treadmills has gone viral on X, amassing over 9.5 million ...
Bryan Ke
Uncategorized
Miss USA Reportedly Mocks Asian Miss Universe Contestants for Not Speaking English
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with an apology from Sarah Rose Summers. Miss USA 2018 Sarah Rose Summers is under fire a...
Carl Samson
15 Things ABGs Know All Too Well
We all know an ABG, are a full or part-time ABG, or have ABG tendencies. No, not medical terminology, ABGs are Asian baby girls or Asian bab...
Editorial Staff
Entertainment
‘Most Woke Man in Fashion’ Casts All Asian Models in New Ad Campaign
Nepalese-American fashion designer, Prabal Gurung, has announced his casting of all Asian models for his fall 2018 “Stronger in Color&...
Ziye Wang
Fashion
Hmong Model Accuses Modeling Agency of Dropping Him Because He’s Gay and Asian
Chufue Yang, a Chicago-based model and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, is speaking out against discrimination in the industry after being ...
‘Aussie-Chinese’ Model Struggles to Balance Her Western Identity and Asian Roots
Fernanda Ly, an Australian model with Chinese roots, has spoken on the difficulties of racial identification and how she deals with them. Ly...
Asia
Modeling Agencies Are Hiring Chinese Uyghur Models For Their Eurasian Looks
While international brands have long been using Caucasian models to market their fashion goods to China, local labels seemed to have found a...
Ryan General
Over 500 Elderly Women Flock to Compete at Bikini Contest in China
More than 500 elderly women have gathered to strut their stuff at a bikini contest in Tianjin, China, last week. The aunties defied aging wi...
Time-Traveling Photos Reveal How Japanese Women’s Makeup Has Evolved Through the Decades
A cosmetics manufacturer in Japan has provided an interesting look back into a century’s worth of makeup trends in the country. Shiseido, wh...
Chinese Models Break The Internet With Their Astonishing Speed
You won’t see any model game stronger than this. Brought to us by PetaPixel, videos of TaoBao (China’s Amazon) models are surfac...
Heather Johnson Yu
Bikini-Clad Models in China Strike Poses on Death-Defying Glass Skywalk
A group of bikini-clad models seemingly defied gravity as they struck poses for a photo shoot on one of China’s gut-wrenching glass sk...
Foreign Models Changing in Public Cause Old Men to Investigate in China
Foreign models who were staging a Victoria’s Secret-esque photoshoot in a square in Binzhou, Shandong Province caught the attention of onloo...
King Malleta
Miss Universe Contestants Showcase Jaw-Dropping National Costumes on Instagram
With just two weeks before the 65th Miss Universe pageant, this year’s lovely candidates have begun showing off their national costume...
50 Pole Dancers Perform on Jeeps For Politician’s Funeral in Taiwan
Fifty scantily-clad women recently performed sexy dance moves along the streets of Chiayi county in Taiwan on Tuesday, not for a festival, b...
Thailand Forces Models to Cover Up at Motor Expo, Attendance and Car Sales Plummet
Following the committee’s decision to impose a mandatory dress code on the models for this year’s Motor Expo in Thailand, the event sa...
British Magazine Names the ‘Sexiest Asians’ of 2016
Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone has been named Asia’s sexiest woman in a recently published list compiled by a London-based newspaper. ...
Chinese Ski Resort Continues Tradition of Exploiting Women in Bikinis For Profit
The shameless trend of having women wear bikinis while they freeze in the snow is now officially becoming a marketing tradition for ski reso...
More Chinese Models Were in This Year’s VS Fashion Show Than Ever Before
Four Chinese models will be strutting on the catwalk at this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Ju Xiaowen, Liu Wen, Sui He, and X...
Instant Noodle Company Shamlessly Uses Sweaty Models For Spicy Ramen Ads
A brand of instant noodles in Japan has, almost shamelessly, brought in sexy models, dancers, and anime voice actresses to convey how hot an...
White Models Kiss Asian Guys For the First Time
There’s always an undeniable stigma attached when beautiful white women end up with less-than-beautiful Asian men. That’s why AB...
Old Pin-up Photos Show When ‘Duck Face’ Was Originally Created
Prior to Photoshop, photo manipulation was a much more difficult process than it is today. Artists would often have to use photographs as th...
Misc
How a College Dropout Became One of the World’s Top Male Models
Brad Kroenig, named one of the top male models of all time by Vogue, managed to push his career into the stratosphere by snagging the attent...
Riley Schatzle
Why Skinny Models Wouldn’t Sell as Well as ‘Average-Sized’ Models in Fashion Ads
How well does sex actually sell to the people who are buying the product? Recent surveys are suggesting that when it comes to fashion, women...
Max Chang
News
‘Starving’ Models Protest After Being Banned From Autoshow for Being Too Sexy
For years, skimpily dressed female models in stilettos and plunging necklines were ubiquitous at Chinese car shows and one of their biggest ...
Augustine Reyes Chan
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