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Asian Persuasion: China’s Most Striking Men

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Watch the world’s fastest rising superpower take on fashion face-on in this riveting backstage hand’s view of the lankiest Chinese male models at this year’s Paris Fashion Week. An intimate flurry of clips stitched together by Thomas Giddings, the short film stalks the Big Four—Zhao Lei, Rui Wang, Liu Chang and Hao Yunxiang—as they take on and off clothes from Louis Vuitton, Mugler and Dries Van Noten, among other Parisian headliners. 

Giddings says he “wanted to capture the downtime and follow each of the boys in a subtle way”, and by and large he succeeds. The clever camerawork really gives you a sense of what it’s like to be walking for one of fashion’s biggest weeks: the frenetic bursts of activity, the quiet off-duty contemplation, the flexing and horseplay, the clipboard-wielding managers and handlers…and the pervasive puffs of can after can of hairspray.