"What I love about my job is its variety."

Lucie therefore learns the profession of a model on the job, depending on the contracts, on the experience gained. Her network is growing and she is diversifying.

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If Lucie does fashion, which means that she walks and poses for magazines, in addition to the commercial aspect, which includes catalogs and advertisements, to showcase clothes or other products, she also works as a cabin model: "The cabin models are the models on which the designers will try out the prototypes of the collections they are designing."

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Lucie prefers fashion, the lights of the projectors and being able to play different characters at each shoot, but the fitting, or cabin, pays more generously and it is interesting to combine the two.

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"It's exciting to meet the stylists and find out what's going on behind the scenes of a collection. We work with people from all walks of life, who are often multilingual. For Armani, for example, it's in Italian!"

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When I ask Lucie what her daily life looks like, she smiles: "Every day is different. That's what I love about this job, and that's what's so complicated. Everything is constantly improvised. It depends on the type of contract ... Sometimes you know in advance who you're going to work for this month, sometimes not. It's a surprise. "

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To prepare, Lucie has several rituals: skin care, sports sessions ... nothing is left to chance: "I do a lot of skipping rope to keep my figure. And if I don't diet, I practice intermittent fasting. I skip breakfast. It's not for everyone but it helps regulate the line and it has many health benefits. "

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"Modeling in Asia is more accessible than in Europe."

 

"In Asia, modeling is more accessible. In Europe, there is a lot more competition between models, especially between Caucasians. Here, it's more flexible on various aspects and especially on measurements. Naturally, in Hong Kong , the girls are on average shorter, so there are more opportunities for those who aren't that tall. "

 

Lucie, who is 1.77 meters tall, is tall in the Hong Kong landscape. But the model selection tends to evolve globally, confirms the young woman: "Nowadays, the selection is more inclusive than a few years ago when we had to be very thin and very tall. It changes today, both in terms of sex, skin color, disability, etc. It is global. In Hong Kong, it is still in its infancy compared to the West and in particular the English-speaking countries… but it happens nicely. "

 

At the beginning of 2019, Lucie left for New York to join the Coco Rocha Model Camp, where the model Coco Rocha teaches models the pose, the catwalk, the art of the shooting, the acting, the branding or the realities of the profession. It is the first time that the young woman participates in a school of models strictly speaking: "It was a period when I doubted my future. This camp reinvigorated me enormously and gave me the desire to integrate myself more into the fashion side of the profession. "

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Fashion is an exclusive world, Lucie tells me: “To access it, the standards are strict: hip size, weight, age, etc. nothing is left to chance and the agencies are sometimes really selective. So I decided to go for it. I organized my own photo shoots from concept to realization, with teams of photographers, videographers, makeup artists, designers and other stylists and staged myself before submitting them to various magazines. "

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Success is then at the rendezvous. The Hong Kong magazine #Legend, which can be seen in newsstands in the city, posts her photos in one of its issues: "I am proud to have taken the initiative to do this by myself, with my team."