Did you know that a Malaysian model made history in 1996 when she became the first Asian model to walk at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show? She has also collaborated with numerous designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, and Chanel.
However, before the two posed for the cameras, did you know that one Malaysian model made history in 1996 when she became the first Asian model to walk at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show?
That model is Ling Tan, who burst into the modelling scene in the mid-’90s and was billed as Southeast Asia’s first international supermodel.She attended a Chinese school before continuing her education at a tertiary level, where she studied art and design., Tan said that she broke into the international modelling world after being photographed by legendary photographer Richard Avedon.
She has collaborated with numerous top designers since then, including Elie Saab, Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Emporio Armani, and Chanel, to name a few. She was also featured in a 12-page spread in the prestigious Italian Vogue magazine and made it to the cover of Vogue Germany in November 1998.
To celebrate our fashion darling and icon, let’s rewind the time and revisit some of Tan’s best runways and magazine coversTan was photographed in Dior by Patrick Demarchelier, a French fashion photographer who died in March 2022.Surrealism inspired Christian Dior’s spring 1999 couture collection. Here, Tan modelled a modest green couture look designed by John Galliano that fits the fashion transition from the late ’90s to the early 2000s.
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