Fashion

Bai Ling: Serve the People

Photographer Victor Rodriguez

Model Bai Ling

Makeup Kat Laskey

Wardrobe shorts: Angel Johnson, top: Coveted Society, bra: Chan Lu

Hair Carla Farra

Style Franquie Zeron

Jewelry Angel Johnson

It takes me all of 40 seconds to realize I’m speaking with someone special. Bai Ling is not from the same planet as you or I. Figuratively, of course, yet I’m still ruling it out literally well after we’ve finished our interview. I come clean with Ling as soon as I have her on the phone that I didn’t get an extensive amount of time to prepare for our chat. She assures me in a thick Chinese accent, “That’s better, because now we’re just two human beings being human beings.” My anxieties about being underprepared vanish and I’m filled with an approval for just how cool this woman seems. I’m not interviewing an absurdly beautiful woman whom I’ve watched in movies since I was 9 anymore. –So beautiful she was actually voted onto People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People list- Instead, I’m simply speaking to someone interesting on the other end of a phone and it’s my job to get her talking.

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