asian invasion

while du juan is making her rounds in Louis Vuitton's Fall 06 campaign (and perhaps YSL), her other asian counterparts are not keeping quiet. so Miuccia Prada has picked asian beauties as the new faces of Miu Miu's Fall 06 collection. i've only seen the ad campaign once on Urban (a singaporean fashion/lifestyle news pullout) and so still waiting with bated breath for it to appear online or in magazines. it's for fall so i'm guessing it'll be out this month or early august. so brace yourself for mainland chinese actresses zhou xun and dong jie together with japanese model lina ohta.

i'm slightly weirded out by this sudden crave for asian invasion in the fashion world. and i'm completely thrown off course by this peculiar choice of spokesperson for Miu Miu. isn't Miuccia very well-known for being unapologetically aryan? as in, with the exception of naomi campbell, there hasn't exactly been models/spokesperson of a different ethnic background in a prada/miu miu campaign or runway. i suppose times have changed. still, i can't wait for the ad campaign!