Meng Yao Xi, or Ming Xi, or Xi Mengyao is a Chinese Fashion Runway model. Her professional modeling career started in 2009 after she attended a TV competition. Her international modeling career began in 2011 when she debuted for the Givenchy Haute Spring Show. In the same year, she modeled the Givenchy ready-to-wear collection and appeared as the face of Givenchy’s Fall/Winter publicity advertising campaign. Xi also modeled for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2013.
Nick Name: Ming Xi
Years active: 2009-present
Born: March 18, 1989, 35 years old and 8 months, Shanghai, China
Sun Sign: Pisces
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Height: 5 ft 10 in – 1.78 m
Measurements: 31-24-35 in – 79-61-89 cm
Bra Size: 30A US – 65A EU
Josephine Skriver and Ming Xi - New York
Angelababy and Huang Xiaomings sexy side
Josephine Skriver And Ming Xi By Zoey Grossman – Instagram
Chinese model Xi Meng Yao takes painful tumble on catwalk during Victoria’s Secret’s Shanghai show.
models Meng Yao Xi, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner.
Meng Yao Xi with model Gigi Hadid
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Education
Xi graduated from Shanghai Donghua University (2007) majoring in Fashion Design and Acting.
Career
In 2008, Xi attended a television competition on Dragon Television called Go! Oriental Angels. This was her first notable appearance on television.
Two years after she graduated from college, Xi participated in the Elite Model Look competition, a fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Management. Xi ranked third in the competition. Shortly after the contest, she was offered a contract with Givenchy, and debuted at the Givenchy Haute Couture Show and ready-to-wear shows. She started her international modeling career shortly after in the same year, when she appeared in the Givenchy F/W 2010 campaign, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Xi also took part in the Fall/ Winter 2011 New York Fashion Week with other three Chinese fashion models: Shu Pei, Sun Feifei, and Liu Wen.
Xi modeled the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, Michael Kors invited Xi to model his Michael Kors Shanghai Extravaganza with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Miranda Kerr. Xi also participated in the Met Gala red carpet with Kors and Huntington-Whiteley. In 2015, Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, invited Xi to model the Balmain 2015 Fall runway along with Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Constance Jablonski, Taylor Hill, Joan Smalls, Cindy Bruna, Jourdan Dunn, Karlie Kloss, Magdalena Frąckowiak, Devon Windsor, and Lily Donaldson. In 2015, Karl Lagerfeld selected Xi to star in a new campaign for his label, and cooperated with Kendall Jenner and Sasha Luss.
Personal life
In July 2019, Xi married Mario Ho, son of Hong Kong–Macau magnate Stanley Ho, after an engagement ceremony in May earlier in the year. She gave birth to a son named Ronaldo in October 2019.
First Fashion Show
Ming Xi debuted with Haute Couture – Spring / Summer 2010 fashion show where she walked for Givenchy.
First Film
She has not appeared in any of the films but appeared in a short video Dries Van Noten Retrospective released on February 28, 2014.
Ming Xi Favorite Things
Instagrammers / Bloggers – Michael Kors, Susie Bubble, Adam Katz Sinding, Victoria Secret
iPhone App – VSCO Cam (Photo editing app)
Designers – A lot many including Alber Elbaz from Lanvin, Riccardo Tisci, Raf Simons
Beauty Products – Fresh rose face masks, sunscreen, eyeshadow, mascara, Nars lipstick
City for Shopping – New York and Paris
Place for Work – The Virgin Islands
Ming Xi Facts
She appeared in the 2013 Victoria Secret Fashion Show.
Ming Xi is good friends with Fei Fei Sun, and Shu Pei Qin.
In the 2009 international Elite Model Look contest, she was the finalist and finished at #3.
She likes to listen Justin Timberlake over Justin Bieber.
In January 2010, she walked exclusively for Givenchy Haute Couture.
She was discovered via Elite Model Look contest held in 2009.
Givenchy chose her as muse in 2010, when she debuted.
Her natural hair color is black (which is for most of the Asians). She sometimes thinks of dying them blonde. But, then she thinks that it won’t suit an Asian girl and so she stops.
She was featured as face to watch by models.com on January 27, 2010, and then by vogue.it on April 15, 2010.
She describes her style as – Mix and Match.
When she steps out of the plans, Ming puts on facial mask and sunglasses to avoid paparazzi.
She likes to accentuate her eyes and hence wears eyeshadow and mascara.
Ming likes to wear striped clothes. She once purchased a black and white striped fabric and gave it to tailor to make her size. And, people thought it was a Marc Jacobs. She used to wore this high waist striped mini-skirt a lot as it made her legs to look longer.
She does not has any style icon. Sometimes, even a passer-by could inspire her.
Ming Xi currently lives in New York City.
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