An unprecedented adventure for our cover girl, our 4th-anniversary issue is here to disrupt all rules and break new grounds.

&ldquo;Disruptors&rdquo; is our theme for the month, which also happens to be both our&nbsp;September 2019 issue, as well as our 4th-anniversary issue.&nbsp;So, who better to disrupt the rules of fashion than having Chinese supermodel Ju&nbsp;Xiao Wen (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jujujuxiaowen/">@jujujuxiaowen</a>)&nbsp;go bald for the first time on our cover in Gucci.

As we all know and in the words of Candy Pratts Price, &quot;September is the January of fashion!&quot;, which leads us to create an issue where&nbsp;we destroyed the normal rules and rebuild a new one.

Managing editor Monica Mong says, &quot;So for this &#39;new beginning&#39;, I persuaded Xiao Wen to go bald for the first time for a magazine&nbsp;to inject a brand new image for the magazine.&nbsp;It is a&nbsp;breakthrough for both Xiao Wen and us.&quot;

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Inspired by Alex Garland&rsquo;s mind-bending sci-fi horror flick Annihilation, Xiao Wen annihilates all conventions with her bald debut in the Fall/Winter 2019 season&rsquo;s latest looks as she goes through an inner journey that explores the human desire to constantly expand into the unknown in tangent to our own reality.

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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&rsquo;an, Xiao Wen became the first Asian model to front a Marc Jacobs ad campaign.

For A/W &rsquo;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.

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Stiller and Wilson had closed the Valentino show just the day prior. Ju&rsquo;s immaculate skin also landed her a gig as the face of L&rsquo;Oreal in 2016.

She attributes her perfect complexion to her childhood in Xi&rsquo;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 &lsquo;beauty soup&rsquo;), chock-full of nutrients and collagen for perfectly elastic skin.

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With 666,000 followers on Instagram (@jujujuxiaowen), Ju also knows a thing or two about taking a pretty good sel e. &ldquo;If you want to make the picture special, always look for some interesting [expression]... It&rsquo;s funny, it&rsquo;s alive.

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

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Subscribe and download our digital copy on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielmalaysia.com/subscriptions">Subscriptions page</a>.

The L&#39;Officiel Malaysia September 2019 &quot;4th Anniversary&quot; issue is now available on newsstands and bookstores.

COVER CREDITS:

Photography: Zeng Wu (<a href="http://instagram.com/yi.tuo">@</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/zeng_wu/">zeng_wu</a>) 
Styling: Monica Mong (<a href="http://instagram.com/mongnica">@mongnica</a>) 
Makeup: Clive Xiong (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/clivexiong/">@clivexiong</a>) 
Special Effects Makeup: Mia Yi&nbsp; 
Producer: ShanShan 
Set Design: JXXX&nbsp; 
Model: Ju Xiao Wen (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jujujuxiaowen/">@jujujuxiaowen</a>) 
Makeup Assistant: Leng&nbsp; 
Special Effects Makeup Assistant: Jolie Zhang 
Styling Assistant: Teng 
Photography Assistants: Caton He &amp; Nick Yang 
Set Design Assistant: Nicole L 
Location: YY Rental&nbsp;

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

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