Supermodel Ju Xiao Wen goes bald for our 4th Anniversary issue

With a career spanning close to a decade, Ju Xiao Wen is no stranger to gracing a magazine cover or being the face of a brand. In 2012, just two short years after being scouted on the streets of her native Xi’an, Xiao Wen became the first Asian model to front a Marc Jacobs ad campaign.

For A/W ’15, she appeared alongside fellow model Tilda Lindstam, and actors Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson (who were reprising their roles as Derek Zoolander and Hansel) for a promo shoot for Zoolander 2.

Stiller and Wilson had closed the Valentino show just the day prior. Ju’s immaculate skin also landed her a gig as the face of L’Oreal in 2016.

She attributes her perfect complexion to her childhood in Xi’an, where her mother ensured she had plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables in her diet and her father cooked a huge pot of pork bone soup (which she lovingly recalls as ‘beauty soup’), chock-full of nutrients and collagen for perfectly elastic skin.

With 666,000 followers on Instagram (@jujujuxiaowen), Ju also knows a thing or two about taking a pretty good sel e. “If you want to make the picture special, always look for some interesting [expression]... It’s funny, it’s alive.

I feel like different expressions are the real makeup,” she says in an interview with Vogue. She is the perfect model then, to front our “Disruptors” issue. Appearing bald for the rst time, focus is shone on her stunning bone structure and multitudinous expressions. All hail the marvellous Miss Ju.