“Every time I think, okay, THIS is going to be the perfect shooting, I am going to be the authentic me, free, beautiful, bold, powerful. Like a wind, like a storm, like irresistible sunshine at noontime. I’m going to allow the ongoing unceasingly light that always exists in my soul, comes showing up in the front, to the world unapologetically. I’m going to speak in my own way, that I AM BEAUTIFUL.
And life just brings a little bit more prickliness to me, triggering gently and precisely the right amount, letting me dig and discover more in my holes and wounds. I just again bump into new (but actually old) reasons to feel short of your beauty, obsessed or jealous about someone else and easily give myself away. I just again started to get lost in slightest change of people’s emotions and attitudes, desiring to become everything to everyone, getting stuck and frozen in fears and projections… And after a whole package, of desperation and frustration, self-doubt and self-talk, after tearing night, after the awareness and compassion, after the bedside chats with my smiling maternal god, I am ready for the next ‘perfect’ shoot.
Oh it is always perfect and never wrong. Nothing goes wrong in life, and just see how sophisticated this script is written. I’m just amazed to see where this is taking me to, exactly where the feelings are locked and the powers are blocked… I am not anyone else and I can’t be, I don’t want to be. I am here to proudly stand on my feet, taking my way, learning not to disappear behind others and hide my beauty, learning not to let obsessions for others cover the expressions of myself….”
With her defining buzzcut, Top Newcomer Echo Zhao @echooooooooeoe walked for Prada, Dior, and Valentino in her first fashion week season. Watch as she shares what advice she would give runway debuts, what it felt like walking for Prada, and more. Click the link in the bio for more content on Top Newcomers. 🔗
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