♡*Official Japanese Model Thread*♡

[Guest happipplrock]

Abiru Yuu, she models for magazines such as woofin girl[mainly] sometimes jelly and the gyaru type mags.

she's also a gravure model but so far i think she only has 1 photobook. and of course known most as yamapi's ex girlfriend.

I find her to be super pretty.

[Guest LoveYunhO]

Abiru Yuu, she models for magazines such as woofin girl[mainly] sometimes jelly and the gyaru type mags.

she's also a gravure model but so far i think she only has 1 photobook. and of course known most as yamapi's ex girlfriend.

I find her to be super pretty.

Wow... Shes Really Pretty.... Thanks for the info

[Guest PuchoKiki~]

Can anyone give me more info on Christina (クリスティーナ)? I tried googling her, but I can't find very much information on her. xD

She's in this CM with Lena:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWpvXAxrNx4...feature=related

[Guest Imboredthatsnotfun]

CHRISTINA was born on October 2nd 1985 (24 years old) in Seattle, USA. She is signed under stardust promotions (the same company that manage Lena Fujii.)

She is best known for appearing in sweet and JJ magazine. In 2006, she debuted as an actress in "I am 日本人" [i am Japanese]

Christina has a Japanese mother and an American father. She is 164cm tall.

VIDEOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtPHSiDtJQ...e=youtube_gdata

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Gu5b_mtDM...feature=related

[Guest mickeymouse_]

Here's a mini spam of Christina

She's so pretty! Her mouth area reminds me of Lena =D

[mikanpuriname]

Kiko is Korean-American, so not Japanese at all and Chikako Wantanabe is full Japanese - not mixed at all. Don't know if this really helps to answer your question. ^^" Most ViVi models start modeling from a pretty young age and get "promoted" to ViVi, so your friend might want to get to it. Although I saw on a video of Lena that she didn't start modeling until after high school.

Mizuhara Kiko's mother is a "Zainichi Korean" = Ethnic Korean with permanent residency in Japan. Her Japanese wiki doesn't indicate which generation, but seeing as how her mom has a Japanese last name, they're probably very assimilated into the JApanese society already. (Kiko's dad's last name was Daniel. After her parents divorced, her name changed to Mizuhara)

[Guest ninademon]

More Kiko please. She's beyond adorable.

[Guest PuchoKiki~]

Thanks for the info on Christina. :]

Some Kiko~

She's so skinny! I'm jealous!

[Guest stellaerickson]

Found this at: http://shackedupatthechateau.blogspot.com

I dig Alexa Chung. I really do. From her face to her lanky legs to her skinny frame and her penchant for quirky mismatched clothes. This girl epitomises true London style in all its eccentric devil-may-care tongue-in-cheek glory.

I have been lucky enough in the past to have been invited to some of the fashionable events and parties where Miss Chung was also in attendance (it’s not what you know dear but who you know, ahem) and I can tell you unequivocally that she really is that pretty in real life. The girl is a knock-out. Simple fact. Refusing to believe differently does not change this fact. And if that were not enough she is also possessed of a very funny British sense of humour which I believe in part hails from her pin sharp witticism and observances that she likes to…share out loud.

But of late there has been a lot of negativity aimed at her and maybe this has something in part to do with her rise in popularity and therefore her subsequent rise on the fashion radar which has seen her move up the ranks to the point where she has become an icon and muse du jour to many a fashionista.

I’m interested in breaking this hate-fest down. I want to put my own spin, if I may, on why certain girls and women feel the need to dislike her and others of the same type. I think it is important to do so. I don’t just want to sum it up as jealousy even though this is what it amounts to in the end, for that would be far too easy a dismissal. I want to understand a lot more than that. Please stop reading here if you are easily offended.

For instance, the women who claim to hate her (face) are normally very short of stature, toping 5’ 2” at the very most. With short stumpy stocky legs that lack any true definition between thigh, calf and ankle. They are probably also carrying love handles on the sides of their short torsos. Their necks are short and their faces are flat, wide and featureless like their noses. These women can find beauty only in others who look exactly like them. Women who define beauty by wearing long tresses of wavy mermaid hair placed just so over the shoulders. Coloured contact lenses are also de rigour. I am talking about the kind of look glorified by such magazines as ViVi who employ half-pint “models” such as Sara Mary, Jun and Rinka to be the pin-ups of the short disgruntled women I am talking about today.

Yes I placed the word “model” in inverted commas because lets face it, while it is true every country has its own definition of beauty, the real money making powerhouse of fashion resides in the West, in Europe and America. It would be impossible for a girl like Sara Mary to scrape her hair off her face into a tight severe pony tail , not I hasten to add into a cutesy puffy, tendril falling, face framing top knot! And wash her face free of makeup, wear the simple models uniform of skinny jeans with a plain white or black t-shirt and some heels and expect to have any luck what-so-ever on a go-see when in competition with a 5’ 11” chiselled creature with cheekbones so sharp it could cut glass! It wouldn’t happen, not in this universe anyway. Perhaps you haven’t heard of ViVi or these models of which I speak but it is quite easy to find if you browse the international section of any decent magazine store.

But, here is the kicker. These same women secretly love and therefore begrudge the very features which they claim to hate in others. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at the men they date and marry. These men are nearly always their exact opposite. Tall while the women are short. Thin and lanky while the women are stumpy, stocky and petite (petite is not the same as skinny. Skinny is bony whilst petite can encompass anything that is tiny). A sharply defined chiselled face whilst the women’s are flat, broad and devoid of contours. Classically handsome opposing the not so. Even the skin tone more often than not is different. What does all this mean? Opposites do attract! And the good news is, this is great for the gene pool.

And if you are out there and happen to be reading this and experiencing that sick feeling in your stomach because deep inside you know this post applies to you, well, I want you to understand something quite important: we can all see it quite easily when you are out together with your man. The world is not blind! Really doesn’t matter how you try to disguise it and fix your mermaid hair or make-up or what clothes cover your body or indeed the way you always pose for photographs favouring a semi profile shot with chin either tucked down or sticking right up and out and lips that are extended and pouted ( a trick used so often by the non photogenic and insecure).

These women I speak of go for men who are their direct opposites because they can appreciate and understand this kind of beauty in a man. In a man, it is non threatening. For females who see every other woman as competition (even after they are married), the world of tall, skinny, contoured and beautiful is a very daunting and scary place. So it makes perfect sense that they build armour by pretending to be indifferent and by creating a private world which protects and nurtures only the type of “beauty” which they can easily attain and therefore understand. For my two cents, I think it is a very small world they live in where reality is warped to suit a required belief.

I don’t like it at all. True, we all need to feel better about ourselves but surely it should not be at the cost of reality! Or is reality nothing more than ones perspective of the truth? I leave it to you to answer.

The jig is up ladies. Hatred is a horrible thing. Let us have no more of it.

OK. Enough, I’ve said my piece and I am satisfied. Let’s have a girl crush moment and perv on a few Alexa Chung pictures.

[Guest BlackCat]

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lol

I think that was so rude of that girl! she is worse than the haters hating on that girl! Not all short girls have the looks she described! She just comes off as rude and obnixous. I think alexa chung is pretty, but personally its a boring pretty to me. I can't really see her as a great model... imo.... She's pretty, but she has nothing on kate moss (who is alot shorter), naomi, tyra, etc.Also lot of the pics that were posted up of her, she looks WEIRD. The camera angles are really weird? Like front on shes pretty... but some of the shots something looks wrong? lol

[Guest dreams_of_forever]

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Lol. I do not even need to say anything. It can stand by itself.

[Guest Imboredthatsnotfun]

The ViVi models aren't exactly short, most are about 5'6", except for Lena and Jun who are 5'3"...

It's pretty tall in Japan..

....and they're not high fashion models, they're commercial magazine models. They're not meant to be 5'11" with razor cheekbones and alien faces. That's reserved for haute couture.

[Guest PuchoKiki~]

^exactly. They are commercial models. They don't need to be 5'11 and they don't need to look like Alexa Chung. It bothers me when people act like shorter people want to be short. Don't you think everyone wishes they could have perfect bodies? And just to add on, not to diss Alexa Chung, but have you seen her MTV show? I've only seen one episode and she's not funny, not personable, and all the celebrity (Taylor Momsen) she interviewed obviously felt very awkward on the show whereas the shows I've seen Jun Hasegawa on she's very warm and approachable/COMMERCIAL.

But anyways...the above poster obviously wanted people to freak out and get pissed off considering they only have one post.

Back on topic...some Lena^^

[Guest bunsen]

^ awwwww Lena looks really cute

and oh my god I friggin' love Kiko!!

[Guest Imboredthatsnotfun]

藤井リナ Lena Fujii

春→夏はLove & Happy にあふれてる (Sweet Summer Report)

[Guest Romancer.]

^ the short hair is really refreshing. The long, wavy hair is overdone because every single model in japanese magazines seems to have it.

Kiko:

Also, lol at the person who wrote that alexa article. She's so dull and certainly not funny or witty. Plus, she has a stylist that dresses her most of the time.

[Guest lady_rubymoon]

eh, anyone willing do to do a Jun spam

[Guest littlemisssunsunshine]

Just a silly question , but do you guys know if ViVi hires models who aren`t Japanese at all?

A friend of mine is thinking about modelling there , but she isn`t quite sure so she`s asking me for help . . even though I myself don`t know . . but i`ve heard before that they only take mixed . . ? Not quite sure .

doesnt angelababy model for VIVI now? she's mixed, but she's not Japanese.

The ViVi models aren't exactly short, most are about 5'6", except for Lena and Jun who are 5'3"...

It's pretty tall in Japan..

....and they're not high fashion models, they're commercial magazine models. They're not meant to be 5'11" with razor cheekbones and alien faces. That's reserved for haute couture.

they look really tall though ~ i thought Jun was like around 170 @@ lol it must be their killer body proportions

Chikako Wantanabe is full Japanese - not mixed at all.

really?... wow! for some reason i have always assumed that she was mixed because her features are so very defined!

[Guest bunsen]

my god, kiko is frickin stunning.

and lena looks really cute in that spread, her new do is definitely an upgrade

and i second the jun spam, she's an amazing model

[Guest petiteange22]

can someone post pictures of yano mikiko??

i'm curious!