Ming Xi
{{short description|Chinese model}}
{{family name hatnote|Xi (奚)|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox model
|name = Ming Xi
|image = Ming Xi Paris Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2019.jpg
|caption = Xi in 2019
|native_name = {{nobold|奚梦瑶}}
|birth_name = Xi Mengyao
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|3|18}}
|birth_place = Shanghai, China
|death_date =
|death_place =
|spouse = {{marriage|Mario Ho|2019}}
|children = 2
|agency = {{Plainlist|
- The Lions (New York)
- Elite Model Management (Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Toronto)
- Storm Model Management (London)
- Model Management (Hamburg)
- Munich Models (Munich)
- MP Stockholm (Stockholm)[https://models.com/models/ming-xi Ming Xi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125142644/https://models.com/models/ming-xi |date=2018-11-25 }} Retrieved 2017-10-31. }}
}}
Ming Xi or Xi Mengyao ({{zh|s=奚梦瑶|t=奚夢瑤|p=Xī Mèngyáo}}; born 18 March 1989) is a Chinese 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.
Career
In 2008, Xi attended a television competition on Dragon Television called Go! Oriental Angels. This was her first notable appearance on television.{{cite web|last=Lu|first=Kate|url=http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/life/five-chinese-models-worth-watching-2011-612518|date=2010-12-30|title=5 Chinese Models to Watch in 2011|website=CNN Travel|access-date=2017-10-31|archive-date=2018-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328023124/http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/life/five-chinese-models-worth-watching-2011-612518/|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.elitemodellook.com/successstories/mingxi.html|title=Ming Xi|work=Elite Model Look|access-date=2015-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110901/https://www.elitemodellook.com/successstories/mingxi.html|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://models.com/models/ming-xi/3/year/advertising|title=Ming Xi|publisher=models.com|access-date=1 Mar 2015|archive-date=31 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331220016/https://models.com/models/ming-xi/3/year/advertising|url-status=live}} 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.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} 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.{{cite magazine|last=Chen|first=Rachel|url=http://audreymagazine.com/introducing-ming-xi-one-of-chinas-hottest-top-models-right-now/|publication-date=2014-07-09|title=Introducing Ming Xi, One of China's Hottest Top Models Right Now|magazine=Audrey|access-date=2015-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103134106/http://audreymagazine.com/introducing-ming-xi-one-of-chinas-hottest-top-models-right-now/|archive-date=2015-01-03|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|last=Yotka|first=Steff|url=http://www.style.com/trends/industry/2015/models/balmain-victorias-secret-models|title=Balmain Gives You Wings|publication-date=2015-03-05|website=style.com|access-date=2017-10-31|archive-date=2015-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818102447/http://www.style.com/trends/industry/2015/models/balmain-victorias-secret-models|url-status=live}} In 2015, Karl Lagerfeld selected Xi to star in a new campaign for his label, and cooperated with Kendall Jenner and Sasha Luss.{{cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Emma|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/partiesandpeople/the-thing-with-ming-the-hot-chinese-model-that-might-just-push-cara-delevingne-off-the-catwalks-10035653.html|date=2015-02-10|title=The thing with Ming: the hot Chinese model that might just push Cara Delevingne off the catwalks|newspaper=London Evening Standard|access-date=2017-10-31|archive-date=2015-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706061334/http://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/partiesandpeople/the-thing-with-ming-the-hot-chinese-model-that-might-just-push-cara-delevingne-off-the-catwalks-10035653.html|url-status=live}}
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.[https://hk.asiatatler.com/society/mario-ho-is-engaged-supermodel-mingxi-heres-what-you-need-to-know "Mario Ho Is Engaged To Supermodel Ming Xi: Here's What You Need To Know"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204075601/https://hk.asiatatler.com/society/mario-ho-is-engaged-supermodel-mingxi-heres-what-you-need-to-know |date=2020-12-04 }} Hong Kong Tatler [15-05-2019][https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3017433/stanley-hos-youngest-son-marries-lingerie-model-ming-xi-who-famously-fell "Stanley Ho's youngest son marries model Ming Xi, who famously fell on Victoria's Secret catwalk"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107234946/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3017433/stanley-hos-youngest-son-marries-lingerie-model-ming-xi-who-famously-fell |date=2020-11-07 }} South China Morning Post [05-07-2019] She gave birth to a son named Ronaldo in October 2019.[https://www.instagram.com/p/B3_xBX6nH-Z/ "Ming Xi's Instagram"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712211402/https://www.instagram.com/p/B3_xBX6nH-Z/ |date=2023-07-12 }} [24-10-2019] In November 2021, Xi gave birth to a daughter in Shanghai.https://weibo.com/3820754851/4699408954559864
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External links
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Category:Chinese female models