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Fashion Network
15-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
Givenchy recruits Zhao Liying as new global beauty ambassador
The Lanfang, Hebei-born actor began her career in 2006 after winning a talent contest and quickly gained attention with roles in "Legend of Lu Zhen" (2013), and "Boss & Me" (2014). Most recently, the actress starred in the 2025 film "We Girls", a crime drama directed by Feng Xiaogang. Marking the partnership, a new Givenchy beauty campaign shows the Chinese star wearing the Parisian brand's new Le Rouge Velvet Matte lipstick in almond terracotta. The appointment comes as the LVMH -owned Givenchy looks to freshen up the image of its makeup vertical and inevitably boost sales. In its most recent trading update in April, LVMH logged a 3% drop in first-quarter sales, missing expectations and confirming a broader sector slowdown as shoppers pulled back on designer fashion amid a volatile economic climate.
South China Morning Post
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
We Girls movie review: Chinese crime drama about 2 women ex-convicts is far too moralistic
2/5 stars After meeting in prison, two young women attempt to get their lives back on track in We Girls, a toe-curlingly moralistic fable from director Feng Xiaogang. The films bends over backwards to paint China's prisons as safe, efficient and compassionately run mechanisms for rehabilitating wayward citizens while also gleefully wagging an accusatory finger at the greedy and lazy for exploiting the disabled and disenfranchised. Zhao Liying and Lan Xiya lead a mostly female cast in a story that encourages women from both sides of the law to band together when the men in their lives inevitably let them down. Play To raise 200,000 yuan (US$28,000) to buy a cochlear implant for her deaf daughter, Gao Yuexiang (Zhao) resorts to becoming a 'cam girl', performing strip shows online for money. She is arrested and sent to prison where, as she understands sign language, corrections officer Deng Hong (Chuo Ni) assigns her to translate for fellow new inmate Mao Amei (Lan), a deaf-mute pickpocket.
