Liu Wen: Face of the future (2)

It is 9am on a rainy Saturday morning at the beginning of London Fashion Week in February. Select Model agency's glamorous new offices in central London are surprisingly sleepy still, although the team were working late into the night confirming options for their girls, and planning schedules for Milan Fashion Week, which follows straight after. I am here to meet Liu Wen, the 24-year-old from Yongzhou, a city in Hunan province in central southern China, and the country's biggest fashion star.

 Yves Saint Laurent, spring/summer 2011.

 Chloé, autumn/winter 2011.

 Christian Dior autumn/winter 2011.

 Backstage at Jean Paul Gautier, autumn/winter 2011.

 Liu Wen (far right) with Christopher Kane (centre) backstage at Christopher Kane, autumn/winter 2011.

 Backstage at Ralph Lauren, autumn/winter 2011.

Liu was the first Chinese girl to model for the raunchy label Victoria's Secret, in New York in 2009.

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